Diethard Küster

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Diethard Küster (born February 25, 1952 in Dortmund ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dortmund, Diethard Küster studied German and educational science at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1975 he was arrested on a trip to Chile by the then Chilean secret service Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), "interrogated" at the Villa Grimaldi torture center and released after spending several weeks in the Tres Álamos concentration camp.

As a student he was part of the spontaneous scene in Berlin. In 1978 he was one of the organizers of the meeting in Tunix , which is now considered a turning point in the alternative political movement in Germany.

Küster began his career in German filmmaking in 1981 with Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster in the films Mauerbande as an actor, continued it in 1982 with film editing and production management in Die kleine Freiheit and 1982/1983 as an actor in Wilde Clique .

In 1982 he shot his first film, Kevin Coyne - At the Last Wall , a music film in the Tempodrom circus tent right in front of the Berlin Wall on Potsdamer Platz.

Küster's first feature film Va Banque , in which he directed, wrote the screenplay and produced with Manuela Stehr , attracted attention and became a “Berlin cult film”. In addition to the well-known actors Winfried Glatzeder and Rolf Zacher , Küster also had the musicians Willy DeVille , Rio Reiser , Achim Reichel , Kevin Coyne, Joy Rider and, in a supporting role, Joschka Fischer (as a taxi driver) perform. The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the rating “valuable”. In the following years, Küster directed two episodes of the series Broti & Pacek - Something is always , five episodes of the series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , three episodes of the comedy series Alone Among Farmers and two episodes of the series Edel & Starck , with which he too was one of the winners of the " German Television Prize 2002 ".

He gained great recognition for the film Beautiful Losers about Marianne Faithfull , Leonard Cohen and Willy DeVille, to which he later also commemorated with the release of a DVD box "Willy DeVille - Still Alive" .

Küster lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STERN, issue 44/1975
  2. ^ Michael March: Left protest after the German autumn. A history of the left spectrum in the shadow of the "strong state" 1977–1997. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2014-6 , p. 207
  3. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: On the beach of Utopia, January 27th, 2008 weekly magazine ZITTY: In the beginning was Tunix, issue 4/2018
  4. ^ Evaluation of the FBW
  5. ↑ Beautiful Losers. A film by Diethard Küster , information from Ard on February 10, 2010, Frankfurter Rundschau: Get lost now and then, July 29, 1997; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Everyone needs a guardian angel, July 29, 1997
  6. ↑ Choose Willy. Music legend DeVille . Article by HP Daniels in Der Tagesspiegel from September 4, 2012
  7. ↑ Crime film "The Collapse - The Truth is Deadly" , Internet information from the TV magazine Prisma .
  8. ↑ The Hunters of the Baltic Sea Treasure Information from the Internet Movie Database (Imdb)
  9. ↑ Program for the 2005 awards ceremony
  10. ↑ Information from the Internet Movie Database (Imdb)
personal data
SURNAME Küster, Diethard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund