Eberhard Junkersdorf

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Hans-Eberhard Junkersdorf (born September 27, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German film producer , film director and production manager .

Life

Eberhard Junkersdorf worked in the 1960s as a manager at the Rialto movie , the Edgar Wallace films produced. In two of them - The Indian Cloth and Room 13 - he played the murderer's double (unnamed).

In 1970 he met the directors Peter Fleischmann and Volker Schlöndorff and produced the film The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach for their film company Hallelujah Film . Three years later, together with Schlöndorff, he founded the production company Bioskop Film , which is involved in many award-winning works of New German Cinema . The company worked very often with Schlöndorff, including on his film Die Blechtrommel , which won an Oscar abroad in 1980 . In 1988 he was a member of the jury of the Berlinale . In 1991 he was part of the jury for the nomination of the German candidate for the international Oscar, which refused the nomination for the internationally highly rated film "Hitlerjunge Salomon" by Agnieszka Holland.

In 1995 he founded the company Munich Animation , which produces animated films. Junkersdorf first worked as a director for the film Die fearless Vier , a modernized version of the Bremen Town Musicians. The film won the producer award of the Bavarian Film Prize. He also directed the German-Belgian co-production Till Eulenspiegel from 2003. The film received an Oscar nomination in the animated film category that same year .

With Neue Bioskop Germany , founded in 2002, he produced Oskar Roehler's film The Old Ape Fear , which was nominated for a Golden Bear at the 2003 Berlinale, and the film adaptation of Uschi Obermaier's biography , Das wilde Leben .

Junkersdorf was Chairman of the Administrative Board and the Presidium of the Berlin Film Fund from 1997 to 2014 and is now its Honorary President.

Filmography as a producer (selection)

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Awards

Individual evidence

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  2. Oscar nomination 2003 category animated film ( Memento from January 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Press release of the Filmförderungsanstalt from February 12, 2014