Dieter Wieland

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Dieter Wieland (born March 16, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German documentary filmmaker and author. Wieland was one of the first television journalists to campaign for monument protection and the preservation of grown cultural landscapes . Hubert Weinzierl praised Wieland's "great and lasting merit" for his contribution to creating a "very high level of environmental awareness" in Germany. Above all, Wieland made it clear that landscapes are the “basis of our culture”.

Life

Dieter Wieland is the son of a travel agent who helped set up the Touropa tourism company . During the war he grew up in his grandmother's house in Landshut , which still contained the “ Gothic remains of the old Franciscan monastery ”. As a boy and student, he was allowed to climb the steeple of St. Martin's Church as often as he wanted. From there he got to know and love the medieval townscape of Landshut. His mother had emigrated to the USA after the end of the war and her son was to come after graduating from high school to study architecture with Richard Neutra in Los Angeles. But in the end he refused to move because he did not want to live in a country without history and baroque churches. Instead, he used the money for the ship passage to New York, to buy a used car and to travel through Bavaria with a friend. During this grand tour his love for the beauties of landscape and architecture arose.

He studied Bavarian regional history, modern history and art history at the University of Munich and also worked as a tour guide . In the 1950s he lived in Naples for a few years . Wieland attended seminars with the art historian Hans Sedlmayr , among others , who taught him the “art of seeing, of looking closely”. He was also impressed by Sedlmayr's commitment to preserving buildings in danger of being demolished. So it was soon clear to him: “I have to fight there!” Through the mediation of the Munich historian Max Spindler and his assistant Benno Hubensteiner , he got to the Bavarian TV's cultural program , which he now sees as “a real seduction”. He put his “three quarters already completed doctoral thesis” on file. Since 1964 he worked as a freelancer for the Bavarian broadcasting company and for various specialist magazines. BR director Christian Wallenreiter stood up for Wieland, as did all the directors who followed him. He shot almost all of his films with the cameraman Hermann Reichmann. He turned down a later offer from the Bavarian State Chancellery to write a speech.

He has several adult children and lives with his wife Heidi in a workers' house he renovated in Uffing am Staffelsee , surrounded by a natural garden made from native plants.

Movies and books

He became known through the documentary film series Topographie , which was shown from 1972 in the series Unter Unser Himmel of the Bavarian Radio . His films are called u. a. Our village should get ugly and help, my house is a monument . The multi-part television series Building and Preserving also received great attention nationwide. At the same time, he published the information brochure Building and Preserving in the Country in 1978 for the German National Committee for Monument Protection . Among other things, he helped design the exhibition Grün kaputt with the accompanying book of the same name.

During the BRmedia supported BR shop numerous films via Bavarian folklore and customs, but there long time was not one of the critically acclaimed film contributions sometimes highly Wieland available. Since November 2014, however, Bayerischer Rundfunk has made some of Dieter Wieland's documentaries available online free of charge. Additional contributions are available as recordings for a fee.

Working method

Wieland's main motivation is his "love for quality" in all eras. It is therefore not a negative worldview that drives him, and he is therefore not a backward-looking critic of modernity. Nonetheless, his films primarily criticize the destruction of old, grown structures and their often thoughtless replacement by new-fashioned and qualitatively inferior structures; the focus is always on the details. The topics range from nature to landscaping and cultural landscape to architecture and the design of villages and cities. For example, he describes how, in the context of land consolidation , which aims at increasing yields and more machine-friendly agriculture, old peasant structures (e.g. hedges) are thoughtlessly sacrificed that were once created with intent and a specific benefit. New-fashionable trends in house and garden design (e.g. conifers instead of fruit or house trees), according to Wieland, destroy the old townscape that fits the landscape through a uniform uniform style of the villages (e.g. by demolishing the Jura houses in the Altmühltal ).

Wieland does not fundamentally criticize the new, but what he believes is inferior and inappropriate. In the film series The great art of building a small house , he exemplifies how you can build a modern, functional and at the same time good-looking house today that also blends in well with the surrounding landscape.

Shortly after the fall of the Wall , Dieter Wieland began to take the first inventory of the condition of the landscapes, parks and the development of urban planning in the former GDR. His observations of village churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which unadorned the decay of the building fabric, became a partially successful call for rescue.

He is rarely seen in his films, the commentary is always made as a voiceover . Characteristic is his calm and slow way of speaking as well as his melancholy sounding voice. However, through a careful choice of words with sometimes quite drastic terms, his statements are very clear; For example, he speaks of "Krüppelkoniferen" and "Yodelling style" and describes a land-cleared landscape as "prepared" and "executed".

“Clear-cutting is going through the country: straightening, clearing, developing, accelerating, channeling, reorganization, regulation, desertification. The land is being prepared, trained, executed. In the end all that remains is the corset of the dreary grid, the triumph of the right angle: series landscape. “Reorganization in rural areas”, was that the order we wanted? A cleared, bare machine step, constructed on the drawing board, with dead straight asphalt paths. A landscape without traces, without history, without names, without animals, without trees and without any bush - international. Eastern collective farms don't look much different. "

- Dieter Wieland, Green kaputt , 1983.

Balance sheet

Wieland considers the extensive containment of land consolidation to be its greatest success. Failures, on the other hand, were much more common, besides the urban sprawl in the new federal states, what hurts him most is the loss of the Altmühltal through the Main-Danube Canal . Although many environmental and monument protection laws have been introduced since the 1970s, economic interests were countered, among other things, in the form of so-called administrative simplification and acceleration laws. Planning and decision-making authority was delegated to the lower authorities (district administrator and mayor), so that today the powers of the state authorities are limited to a minimum. Wieland's balance sheet therefore remains skeptical:

“We didn't achieve anything. The diversity of species has declined in a way that we were unable to imagine in these dimensions back then. The soil compaction , the soil devaluation, the manure masses - that was unimaginable for us. The development areas still look like they did when I made my first films against development areas. "

- Dieter Wieland, 2017.

engagement

In 2003 Wieland was elected to the board of trustees of the Munich Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung , which, among other things, campaigned against the construction of the A94 through Isental .

Since 2008, Wieland has been the first chairman of the Murnau Park Landscape Support Group to maintain and maintain Emanuel von Seidl's artist park ( Seidl Park ) in Murnau am Staffelsee .

At the founding event of the national monument network Bavaria on January 13, 2012 in the Evangelical Academy Tutzing, Wieland gave the keynote lecture on the subject of “Building culture needs energy and courage”.

topography

Over 250 films have appeared in the Topography series . Including:

1973

  • Landshut or does beauty have a chance?
  • Nicolaiplatz

1974

  • Inntal traffic route .
  • Rothenfels am Main - Bavaria's smallest town.
  • The Forggensee - the fifth largest lake in Bavaria
  • Land consolidation - the machine-friendly landscape.

1975

  • Our village should become ugly - A contribution to the European Year of Monument Protection
  • Freight station in Nuremberg
  • Suburb of Giesing .
  • Passau , the floating city.
  • Weibersbrunn - a village in the Spessart.
  • The Fernpass
  • Castles in the Upper Palatinate .

1976

1977

1978

1979

  • The window - build and preserve

1980

  • The roof - build and maintain on the land
  • The garden - build and preserve
  • The Innviertel

1981

  • The fence - build and preserve
  • The door - build and preserve

1982

1983

1984

  • Build and preserve - the yodelling style
  • The last garden - the grave
  • Portrait of a master builder - the architect Hans Döllgast .
  • New architecture in the old palace

1985

1986

  • Royal dream machine - Herrenchiemsee Palace
  • Build and Preserve - The Great Art of Building a Small House, Part 1
  • Build and Preserve - The Great Art of Building a Small House, Part 2
  • Build and Preserve - The great art of building a small house. Award-winning single-family home in a Franconian village.
  • The Regensburg Danube Islands

1987

  • The village street in Bayersoien
  • The landscape of the "Blue Rider", Franz Marc in Kochel
  • Our village should remain home

1988

1989

  • The great time of the Prince Regent - memories of the Prince Regent's time from 1886 to 1913.
  • The People's Garden - 200 years of the English Garden in Munich.
  • Amorbach - The Abbey in the Odenwald
  • The clean village

1990

1991

  • The Baltic island of Rügen
  • Dresden

1992

1993

  • Hedge landscapes
  • The sinking of the Donauauen
  • The Alps - A journey into our time: Kaiser Mountains.
  • The Alps - A journey into our time: mountains of salt.

1994

  • Build and preserve - The great art of building a small house - New wooden houses.
  • Bavarian house landscapes - colonist houses in the Donaumoos .
  • Bavarian house landscapes - Middle Franconia .
  • Wood production in Eisfeld / Thuringia
  • Landshut - A look back after 20 years

1995

1996

1997

  • Bavarian house landscapes - Haßberge .
  • Ökozentrum Werratal - organic farming in Thuringia.

1998

1999

  • Build and preserve - the tavern
  • The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm .
  • From trees in the high mountains.
  • Mecklenburg - Dorfkirchen in Not 2. Thanks to our donors

2000

2001

  • The great art of building a small house - single-family homes
  • Dorflinden

2002

  • Light and lamps

2003

  • The great art of building a small house - wooden houses
  • The great art of building a small house - new buildings

2004

  • Lake Constance - urban sprawl in a landscape

Dating unknown

Awards (selection)

Fonts

Film portraits

  • Park stories - living with a monument. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 44 min., Script and direction: Sybille Krafft , production: Bayerischer Rundfunk , series: Unter Unser Himmel , first broadcast: December 29, 2013 on Bavarian TV , table of contents and online video from BR. In it Wieland about the Seidl Park in Murnau .
  • alpha forum. Dieter Wieland in conversation with Sybille Krafft. Talk, Germany, 2012, 45 min., Production: BR-alpha , series: alpha-Forum , first broadcast: March 16, 2012 on BR-alpha, table of contents and online video from BR with an interview text.
  • The angry film poet. Dieter Wieland - A portrait. Documentary, Germany, 2002, 44 min., Script and director: Sybille Krafft, production: Bayerischer Rundfunk, series: Unter Unser Himmel , first broadcast: March 17, 2002 on Bavarian TV, table of contents and online video from BR.

Web links

Contributions by Wieland

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b filmmaker and author. Wieland, Dieter. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 1, 2013, accessed on March 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Hans Well : Guilty! In: BR , accessed December 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hubert Weinzierl in: Der zornige Filmpoet. Documentary by Sybille Krafft , BR , March 17, 2002.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g alpha forum: Dieter Wieland in conversation with Fritz Zeilinger (2000). In: BR-alpha , December 4, 2000, ( PDF ; 51 kB), 13 pages, text of the program.
  5. ↑ a b Dieter Wieland: Childhood in Landshut. “Here I learned to see and feel.” In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 22, 2014, autobiographical sketch.
  6. ↑ Heribert Riesenhuber: Filmmaker Dieter Wieland is 80. In: Münchner Merkur , March 15, 2017.
  7. ^ A b Norbert Joa : Guest: Dieter Wieland, environmental filmmaker. ( Memento of March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Bayern 2 , one to one. The talk , March 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b c Dieter Wieland: Speech of thanks for the award of the Lessing Prize for Criticism 2016. In: BR , May 11, 2016, (PDF; 10 p., 42 KB).
  9. ↑ Hans Kratzer: Dieter Wieland: "That they didn't kill me there still amazes me today." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 17, 2017.
  10. ^ Sybille Krafft : The angry film poet. Dieter Wieland - A portrait. In: BR , March 17, 2002.
  11. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier : How broken is our green today, Mr. Wieland? In: faz.net from July 16, 2011, interview.
  12. ^ Topography: Dieter Wieland - the critical voice of Bavaria. In: BR , accessed on January 4, 2015.
  13. ↑ Thies Marsen: The fighter. Dieter Wieland turns 80 ( memento from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: BR , March 16, 2017.
  14. ↑ Press release: Bernd Louis or the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In: Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung , July 10, 2003.
  15. ↑ Our goals. In: Murnauer Parklandschaft e. V. , accessed on March 28, 2017.
  16. ↑ Together against the wrecking ball. The future “Bavarian Monument Network” is intended to bundle the previously uncoordinated rescue initiatives for old buildings. ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 12, 2012, beginning of the article ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  17. ↑ a b c d e f g h i The Enlightenment. Television can do more than entertain. In: BR , October 22, 2014.
  18. ↑ Film: Landshut or does beauty have a chance? In: BR , 1973.
  19. ^ Film: Inntal traffic route. In: BR , 1974.
  20. ^ Film: Rothenfels am Main - Bavaria's smallest town. In: BR , 1974.
  21. ↑ Film: The Forggensee - The fifth largest lake in Bavaria. In: BR , 1974.
  22. ^ Film: Land consolidation - the machine-friendly landscape. In: BR , 1974.
  23. ↑ Film: Our village is supposed to be ugly. In: BR , 1975.
  24. ^ Film: Vorstadt Giesing. In: BR , 1975.
  25. ^ Film: Passau, the floating city. In: BR , 1975.
  26. ↑ Film: Weibersbrunn - a village in the Spessart. In: BR , 1975.
  27. ^ Film: Der Fernpass [between Reutte , Imst and Innsbruck .] In: BR , 1975.
  28. ^ Film: Castles in the Upper Palatinate. In: BR , 1975.
  29. ↑ Film: A Baroque Canal System. In: BR , 1976.
  30. ↑ Film: I am the Leibl - A painter among farmers. In: BR , 1976.
  31. ↑ Film: The Ammer Gorge. In: BR , 1977.
  32. ↑ Film: The Pegnitz - The course of a river. In: BR , 1977.
  33. ^ Film: Farm gardens in the Emmental. In: BR , 1977.
  34. ↑ Film: Strom ohne Ufer - A film about the Po. In: BR , 1977.
  35. ^ Film: Kaiser Karl IV. In: BR , 1978.
  36. ^ Film: The Wittelsbachers - A European Family. In: BR , 1978.
  37. ↑ Film: The Altmühltal and the Canal. In: BR , 1978.
  38. ^ Film: Baiershofen - A village in Swabia. In: BR , 1978.
  39. ^ Film: The rose garden of Heidegg Castle. In: BR , 1978.
  40. ↑ Film: The Window. In: BR , 1979.
  41. ↑ Film: The Roof. In: BR , 1980.
  42. ↑ Film: The Garden. In: BR , 1980.
  43. ↑ Film: The Fence. In: BR , 1981.
  44. ↑ Film: The Door. In: BR , 1981.
  45. ↑ Film: South Tyrolean Paths. In: BR , 1981.
  46. ↑ Film: Veitshöchheim - A Rococo Garden. In: BR , 1981.
  47. ↑ Film: The Isen. In: BR , 1982.
  48. ^ Film: Burghausen. In: BR , 1982.
  49. ↑ Film: The Color. In: BR , 1982.
  50. ^ Film: Green broken - Landscape and Gardens of the Germans. In: BR , 1983.
  51. ↑ Film: Dinkelsbühl - City Architecture of the Middle Ages. In: BR , 1983.
  52. ↑ Film: The house tree. In: BR , 1983.
  53. ↑ Film: Green walls. In: BR , 1983.
  54. ↑ Film: Building and Preserving - The Yodelling Style. In: BR , 1984.
  55. ↑ Film: The last garden - the grave. In: BR , 1984.
  56. ^ Film: Portrait of a Master Builder - The Architect Hans Döllgast. In: BR , 1984.
  57. ^ Film: New architecture in the old palace [from Eichstätt by Karljosef Schattner ]. In: BR , 1984.
  58. ^ Film: The Fuggerei in Augsburg. In: BR , 1985.
  59. ↑ Film: The great art of building a small house. Award-winning single-family home in a Franconian village. In: BR , 1986.
  60. ↑ Film: The great time of the Prince Regent. In: BR , 1989.
  61. ↑ Film: The People's Garden. 200 years of the English Garden in Munich. In: BR , 1989.
  62. ^ Film: The Reichswald near Nuremberg. In: BR , 1990.
  63. ^ Film: Historical Gardens in Swabia. In: BR , 1990.
  64. ^ Film: Village Renewal - Build and Preserve. In: BR , 1990.
  65. ^ Film: Friedrich von Gärtner - The builder of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. In: BR , 1992.
  66. ^ Film: Hedge Landscapes. In: BR , 1993.
  67. ^ Film: The sinking of the Danube meadows. In: BR , 1993.
  68. ^ Film: Kaiser Mountains. In: BR , 1993.
  69. ↑ Film: Salt Mountains. In: BR , 1993.
  70. ^ Film: New wooden houses. In: BR , 1994.
  71. ^ Film: Bavarian House Landscapes - Colonist Houses in the Donaumoos. In: BR , 1994.
  72. ↑ Film: Middle Franconia. In: BR , 1994.
  73. ^ Film: Bavarian House Landscapes - Jura Houses in the Altmühltal. In: BR , 1995.
  74. ^ Film: Mecklenburg - Village Churches in Need. In: BR , 1995.
  75. ^ Film: Western Upper Franconia. In: BR , 1996.
  76. ^ Film: Rhön-Grabfeld. In: BR , 1996.
  77. ↑ Film: The Donaumoos - Changes in a Landscape. In: BR , 1996.
  78. ^ Film: Friedrich Bürklein - The Forgotten Architect. In: BR , 1996.
  79. ^ Film: Haßberge. In: BR , 1997.
  80. ^ Film: Ökozentrum Werratal - Organic farming in Thuringia. In: BR , 1997.
  81. ↑ Film: The great art of building a small house - Hirschbach im Rottal. In: BR , 1998.
  82. ^ Film: The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. In: BR , 1999.
  83. ↑ Film: Of Trees in the High Mountains. In: BR , 1999.
  84. ^ Film: Engadine farmhouses. In: BR , 2000.
  85. ^ Film: Garden City Piesteritz. In: BR , 2000.
  86. ^ Film: Dorflinden. In: BR , 2001.
  87. ↑ Film: Light and Lamps. In: BR , 2001.
  88. ↑ Film: The great art of building a small house - wooden houses. In: BR , 2003.
  89. ↑ Film: Lake Constance - Sprawl of a Landscape. In: BR , 2001.
  90. ↑ a b State Prize. Architecture prizes awarded in Bavaria. In: BauNetz , April 18, 2007.
  91. ↑ District assembly of Upper Bavaria has decided on award winners. In: District of Upper Bavaria , August 18, 2010, accessed on March 28, 2017.
  92. ↑ Landtag awards constitutional medal. ( Memento of March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: BR , December 9, 2016.
  93. ^ Anna Martin: Award: Lessing Prize for documentary filmmaker Dieter Wieland. In: BR , May 9, 2016; see. Press release from the Lessing Academy (PDF; 4 pp., 119 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin