Dirk Jungnickel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dirk Jungnickel (* 1944 in Upper Lusatia ) is a German director, documentary filmmaker and actor.

Jungnickel grew up in the GDR. After graduating from high school in Bautzen in 1963, he trained as a skilled worker and began training in acting in 1966. In May 1968 Jungnickel experienced the Prague Spring . Since 1969 Jungnickel worked as an assistant director and later assistant director in the DEFA studio in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where he worked on over thirty feature films. In 1985 he fled the GDR and since then has worked as a freelance director and author in West Berlin . Various documentaries have also been published on ARD and Deutsche Welle . His documentation work focuses on the fate of victims of Stalinist-Communist arbitrariness. He presented many of his productions in memorial sites such as the memorial library in honor of the victims of communism . The Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Saxon State Center for Political Education also supported his film projects.

Dirk Jungnickel is the spokesman for the Association June 17, 1953 , an association for coming to terms with political persecution in the GDR. He lives in Kladow / Berlin. In 2011 Jungnickel started an initiative with other SED victims to recall the head of the Potsdam branch of the Stasi records authority , Ines Reich. Jungnickel's daughter Constanze Jungnickel is a theater director.

Political positions

In 2005 Jungnickel and other journalists initiated the "Appeal May 8, 1945 - Against Forgetting" published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which called for people to remember on this date in the spirit of Theodor Heuss that “we are redeemed and destroyed in one have been".

In 2001 he signed the petition against the dismissal of the right-wing conservative journalist Götz Kubitschek from the Bundeswehr. Jungnickel is a member of the Evangelical Brotherhood of St. George's Order .

Filmography

Director and documentary filmmaker

  • 1989: Löwenzahn (Director, TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2002: We were already half Russian
  • ... and the rest are shot ...
  • Contemporary witnesses (5-part documentary series)

Assistant director

actor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.filmportal.de/person/dirk-jungnickel_5e18e3ef43d84362a337e3ada0ae6304
  2. ↑ http://www.runde-ecke-leipzig.de/index.php?id=359
  3. ↑ https://phinau.de/jf-archiv/online-archiv/file.asp?Folder=18&File=201803011209.htm&STR1=dirk%20jungnickel&STR2=&STR3=&STR4=
  4. ↑ http://gedenkbibliothek.de/?mid=veranstaltungsarchiv
  5. ↑ https://www.kas.de/web/berlin/veranstaltungen/detail/-/content/-...agenten-faschisten-und-provokateure-schicksalstag-17.-juni-1953
  6. ↑ https://www.slpb.de/veranstaltungen/details/238/
  7. ↑ https://17juni1953.wordpress.com/tag/dirk-jungnickel/
  8. ↑ https://www.pnn.de/potsdam/rueckendeckung-fuer-ines-reich/21957606.html
  9. ↑ https://www.pnn.de/kultur/von-astrid-priebs-troeger-gegen-das-vergessen/22360158.html
  10. ↑ Against forgetting. (pdf) Institute for State Policy, archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ https://phinau.de/jf-archiv/online-archiv/file.asp?Folder=01&File=401yy55.htm&STR1=dirk%20jungnickel&STR2=&STR3=&STR4=
personal data
SURNAME Jungnickel, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, documentary filmmaker and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Lusatia