Dietmar Post
Dietmar Post (born December 26, 1962 in Espelkamp ) is a film director and producer .
Life
Dietmar Post was born in Espelkamp and completed an apprenticeship as a printer at the Söderblom grammar school there after graduating from high school . He studied theater, film and television studies and Spanish philology in Berlin (Free University) and Madrid (Complutense). After completing his master's degree, he lived and worked in New York between 1995 and 2003. There he made his first short film Bowl of Oatmeal at New York University . The second short film, Cloven Hoofed , premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. This was followed by assistance to Thomas Schadt (Wall Street), Reiner Holzemer (Walker Evans) and Lutz Dammbeck (The Net). With his partner Lucía Palacios , he founded the production company Play Loud! In 1997 in New York as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia . Productions , which has also acted as a DVD and record label since 2006.
Critics call Post and Palacios the German counterpart to Direct Cinema directors DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus .
With technical contributions, Dietmar Post can also be found as a discussion partner for the daily newspapers taz and Junge Welt .
In 2008 Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios were awarded the renowned Adolf Grimme Prize .
Filmography (selection as director)
- 1996: Bowl of Oatmeal (USA)
- 1998: Cloven Hoofed (USA, D, Sp)
- 2002: Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping (USA, D, Sp)
- 2006: Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback (USA, D, Sp)
- 2009: Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows (USA, D, Sp)
- 2010: Faust: Live at Klangbad Festival (USA, D, Sp)
- 2013: Franco's Settlers, German title: Die Siedler Franco (D, Sp)
- 2013: Donna Summer: Hot Stuff (D, USA)
- 2016: German Pop and Circumstance, German title: German Pop Conditions (D)
- 2018: Franco in court (D, Sp)
Discography (selection as label maker)
- 2006: (pl-01) (single 7 ") higgle-dy piggle-dy / monk time - The Fall / Alec Empire
- 2006: (pl-02) (double CD) Silver Monk Time - a tribute to the monks (compilation)
- 2007: (pl-03) (CD / LP) Monks Demo Tapes 1965 (together with Munster Records)
- 2008: (pl-04) (DVD) monks - the transatlantic feedback
- 2009: (pl-05) (single 7 ") complication / oh, how to do now - The Monks (first official re-release of the 1966 Polydor single)
- 2009: (pl-06) (LP / DOWNLOAD) said my say - Floating di Morel
- 2009: (pl-07) (LP / DOWNLOAD) bad off / good on - Doc Schoko
- 2009: (pl-08) (single 7 "/ DOWNLOAD) drunken maria / monk chant - Gossip / The Raincoats
- 2009: (pl-09) (DOWNLOAD) more memory than now - Floating di Morel
- 2009: (PL-10) (DOWNLOAD) Takna, pakna, g (k) .. ram . - Floating di Morel
- 2009: (pl-11) (DOWNLOAD) real people psych - Floating di Morel
- 2009: (pl-12) (DOWNLOAD, VIDEO & AUDIO) A Summer Evening with Floating di Morel , a film by Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios
- 2009: (pl-13) (DOWNLOAD) one against - Doc Schoko
- 2009: (pl-14) (DOWNLOAD) tears + wölkchen ep - Doc Schoko
- 2009: (pl-15) (DOWNLOAD, VIDEO & AUDIO) Doc Schoko: Octopus in the Pentagram , a film by Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios
- 2010: (pl-16) (DOWNLOAD) "ø" - Baseline
- 2010: (pl-17) (DOWNLOAD) estado líquido -Beseline
- 2010: (pl-18) (DVD 9) Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows together with Faust: Live at Klangbad Festival
- 2010: (pl-19) (DVD 9 / DOWNLOAD) Faust: Live at Klangbad Festival together with Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows
- 2010: (pl-20) (single 7 ") so far / it's a bit of pain - Faust (band) (first official re-release of the Polydor single from 1972)
- 2010: (pl-21) (DVD 9) Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping
Prizes / Awards
- 1996: Philadelphia UFVA Film Festival (best short film: Bowl of Oatmeal )
- 1998: Berlin Interfilm Eject (3rd Audience Award: Bowl of Oatmeal )
- 2003: Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2nd best documentary: Reverend Billy)
- 2004: Tarragona REC Film Festival (Audience Award for Best First Work: Reverend Billy)
- 2006: Leeds Film Festival (Audience Favorite: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2006: Hessischer Filmpreis (nomination for best documentary: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007: San Francisco Berlin & Beyond Festival (2nd Audience Award: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007: Würzburger Filmtage (Audience Award for Best Documentary: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007: Milan Doc Festival (best editing: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2008: Adolf Grimme Prize (Script & Director: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2014: New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema (NEFIAC) (Best Documentary: Franco's Settlers)
- 2015: Festival du Cinéma Latino Américain de Montréal (Best Documentary: Franco's Settlers)
- 2016: Adolf Grimme Prize nomination (Script & Director: German Pop and Circumstance - German Pop Conditions)
- 2019: Festival International de Cinéma et Mémoire Commune, Nador, Morocco (Grand Prix Documentaire: Franco in court)
Books
- 2018: The Settlers of Franco: An example of the pushing back of the searching documentary . A collection of texts edited by Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post with contributions by Patricia Campelo, Carlos Castresana, Cristóbal Gómez Benito, Christoph Haas, Christoph Hübner, Paco Gómez Nadal, Rafael Poch-de-Feliu, Johanna Pumb, Georg Seeßlen, Kerstin Stutterheim and Juan Zapater . ISBN 978-3-9820036-0-3
- 2016: Damaged Goods: 150 entries in punk history. Including the text by Dietmar Post "Monks: Black Monk Time". Pp. 13–15, editor Jonas Engelmann. Ventil-Verlag ISBN 978-3-95575-061-9
Web links
- Dietmar Post in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- play loud! productions Official website of the production company
- play loud! on MySpace MySpace page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inline film: Profil Doietmar Post , accessed on May 31, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.hoefekino.de/filme/klangbad-avant-garde-meadows ( Memento from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ See for example: "Many broadcasters operate in the manner of a manor", in: Junge Welt, August 16, 2019.
- ↑ http://blogplayloud.blogspot.de/2015/04/francos-settlers-wins-its-third-award.html
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/festivalcinemanador/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Post, Dietmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and label maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Espelkamp |