Dieter Köster

Dieter Köster (born September 4, 1947 in Flensburg ) is a German film and television director , film editor , cameraman , author .

Life

After his apprenticeship and many years of activity as a telecommunications craftsman, Köster completed his second education . He has been married to Hannelore Conradsen since 1969 . In 1969 he made his first short film , Honeymoon Crime (with Hannelore Conradsen as the actress ).

Since 1972 he has worked as an author, editor, cameraman and director of cinema and television films, including for ZDF (Honorable Mention for Correspondence , Paris TV Game Festival 1974). In 1976 he completed his studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin , followed by work as a sound engineer , cameraman and editorial assistant. He often accompanies his film work as a photographer.

In the 1970s Köster made several films for young people (including with and by Robert Wolfgang Schnell : Holger lives in the zoo ). In the 1980s, award-winning films followed, dealing with the “ petty bourgeoisie in ourselves ”, as well as music films and later video clips (1st prize for hustlers , at the 1994 New York video clip festival). He made films and contributions for the TV series and magazines: Das Kleine Fernsehspiel , Logo , Denkste !? , Under German roofs , mosquito , 45 fever , close-up , 24 hours , backstage , ARD-Exclusiv , the documentary and over 40 portraits for the ARD series Highly Personal . He co-founded numerous film and television productions ( Pro-Film , Fuzzi-Film , C&V , mbu ). With Hannelore Conradsen, Köster also repeatedly creates subjective travel films: We can't stand the cold .

Design

As a documentarist , he mainly films small scenes, often only marginal observations, which he associates in long films with stories of ordinary people , but for him that is almost everyone, in the milieu of hairdressers , mass media , mood makers, top managers, formation dancers , pop music singers or for travelers on the Orient Express . Köster often thematizes in an entertaining way the tendency of his protagonists to subordinate themselves to different life situations and shows the consequences. For this he received a special prize at the Max Ophüls Festival 1983 for Wilde Clique , which was created because of this feature film .

In 2006/2007 he is working on a real animation in which he combines fiction and reality for the first time - via the Internet - in a surreal story: under the title Ich bin 3 Kirschkuchen (Gloria in Wonderland) .

In 2008, Köster defined his stance on “ making films and television” as follows: “ In contrast to widespread practice, I didn't want to make everything messy, completely clear and manageable, clumsy and flat and superficially lined up; the "message" into the audience with all available index fingers, fence posts and wooden hammers; where, if necessary, even under general anesthesia, you can see that art is being made here or what is generally taken for it and that without having to look closer in order to be able to pursue your favorite pastime: feeling great, but really great and concerned feel ... ”“ The bitterness of many intellectualized filmmakers is partly precisely that the television industry seems to function without them. Nobody misses their interpretation. As if they didn't exist (outside of the subsidized cultural playgrounds), the mass audience zaps from one distraction to the next. But that's just what it looks like. In reality, it's about communicating content in not only adequate language, but to be able to represent complex issues so that even viewers without high education (or an affinity thereto) could find their interest ... "

Private

His son is the qualified social pedagogue and filmmaker Svenne Köster . Dieter Köster lives in Berlin and Taroudannt , until 2005 he taught as a lecturer . From 2008 he no longer wants to realize his own TV productions and look for other perspectives: “ It was an interesting TV time, so I should remember it. "

Filmography (selection)

As a director where no further information

1970–1973: Correspondence (Pro Film / ZDF ) - also screenplay, camera, editing
1976: In the silence - first attempts (Pro Film / NDR ) - also script, camera, editing
1977: Jan & Jo ( ARD ) - also screenplay
1978: Holger lives in the zoo (multi-part) (ARD)
1980: Have a nice lame holiday (ARD) - also script
1981: Die Mauerbande (ARD) - also screenplay
1982: Little Freedom (HCK / Fuzzi-Film / ARD)
1983: Wilde Clique (HCK) - also screenplay, camera, editing
1984: Rauschendes Leben (C & V) - also camera, editing
1984: The 4 from the meantime (6 episodes) ( SFB )
1985: ... back from Hollywood (ARD) - also screenplay
1986: What to do with Willfried? (ARD) - also screenplay
1986–1994: About 40 video clips and music films (including Die Ärzte , Heiner Pudelko , Normahl , Geier Sturzflug , Wigald Boning )
1987–1989: Mosquito - Nothing stings better (ARD)
1988: dream job (ARD)
1989: Wholesale Market (SFB)
1990: Ha (a) rmonie in perfection (HCK / ARD) - also camera, editing
1991: Bet that ..? (ARD)
1992: Hard Jobs (HCK / ARD) - also camera, editing
1993: Stricher (ARD) - also screenplay
1993: Potsdam - Odessa (ARD)
1993: Wanted: Living water corpse (ARD)
1993–2006: approx. 40 portraits for very personal (ARD)
1994: Hubert von Goisern (ARD)
1994: The big child - Heinz Schenk at 70 (ARD) - also screenplay
1994: Heimatklänge (HCK / ARD)
1995: Holidays at the Schleifer ( Sat.1 )
1995: Our village should become more beautiful (HCK / ARD)
1996: Celebrations (HCK / ARD)
1996: Taft and Takt (ARD)
1997: Klaus and Klaus (Sat.1)
1997: Mike Krüger - profession of mood maker (HCK / ARD)
1998: Ice people (HCK / ARD)
1999: Whoever says has more out of life (HCK / ARD)
2000: Dreams on Wheels (Orient-Express) (HCK / ARD) - also 2nd camera
2000: Scenes from our life (HCK) - also camera, editing
2001: Start up in pop music heaven (HCK / ARD) - also 2nd camera
2003: Christian Anders (ARD)
2004: Vienna Boys' Choir (ARD)
2004: Dropouts in Frankfurt am Main (HCK) - also editing
2005: Cruise in the river oasis (HCK) - also camera, editing
2005: Verflixte-Fucking City (I stand on di) (HCK / ARD) - also screenplay, editing
2006: LUXUS - Made in Cuba (HCK) - also camera, editing
2006: Michael von Au (ARD)
2006: Greetings from the home front (mbu) - also cut
2007: Dorothea Moritz does a country party (mbu) - also camera, editing
2006–2007: I am 3 cherry cakes! (Gloria in Wonderland) (mbu) - also script, camera, editing
2008: The big jump (mbu - independent) - also screenplay, editing
2009: See, that's Berlin! (MaRock - Film) - also editing

Only script, camera and editing, no direction

2008: Bleached happiness (Kneesebeck film)

Photographic work (selection)

1973: correspondence ; b / w photo series about the shooting of the film
1979: Zoo ; Polaroid series by the writer Robert Wolfgang Schnell in the Berlin Zoo
1992: bet that ..? Photo series about the TV show - backstage
1990-1994: Clips ; Staged photo scenes in the production frames of the video clips
1999: Observations on the Orient Express ; b / w photo series (together with Svenne Köster)
2007: pixel images from the second life ; Photo series
2008: Blue Series ; Photo - still life

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personal data
SURNAME	Köster, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film and television director, film editor, cameraman, author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flensburg