Eckhart Schmidt

This article is about the filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt. For the architect see Eckart Schmidt .

Eckhart Schmidt in front of the Theatiner cinema in Munich (2020)

Eckhart Schmidt (born October 31, 1938 in Mährisch-Sternberg ) is a German filmmaker and author . Since 1985 he has been realizing his projects in his own production company Raphaela-Film GmbH in Munich.

Life

After graduating from high school in Ulm and studying in Munich, Eckhart Schmidt initially worked as a film critic a . a. for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk . In its assessment, to Schmidt's 80th birthday Anke Sterneborg wrote: "The cinema, he has conquered self-taught, modeled on the French colleagues, first as critics including the Süddeutsche Zeitung." . He was one of the first in Germany to write about directors such as Douglas Sirk , Raoul Walsh , Budd Boetticher and Jean-Pierre Melville . In the mid-1960s, Eckhart Schmidt became active as a filmmaker parallel to his journalistic activities. He became part of the New Munich Group around Rudolf Thome , Max Zihlmann and Klaus Lemke , which was looking for an entertainment alternative to the Oberhausen group and the Oberhausen Manifesto , "for a cinema that is wilder and more unbridled and at the same time more open to the public" (Sterneborg ). The first short films were made in the mid-1960s; In 1967 he shot his first feature film with Jet Generation , a portrait of the “swinging Munich” of the sixties. In 1978 he published the punk magazine S! A! U! out, in which u. a. Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Herbert Achternbusch , Werner Schroeter , David Byrne and Patti Smith published.

In 1982 he shot the film Der Fan , based on his novel of the same name, with Désirée Nosbusch in the leading role. Numerous other feature films and book publications followed.

In 1989 Schmidt realized the world's first major HDTV production with the film adaptation of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen . Further opera films followed, including a. Hans Werner Henze's opera The Prince of Homburg (1993). Thereafter, more than twenty documentaries were made about opera stars, composers, conductors, opera productions and opera houses such as the Los Angeles Opera. Schmidt is also the editor of the memoirs of the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch .

In his feature films, Schmidt was first inspired by the Neue Deutsche Welle ( Der Fan , Das Gold der Liebe ), then by the melodramas Douglas Sirks ( Das Wunder ) and finally by German romanticism ( Undine , Der Sandmann ). After a seven-year film break, Schmidt then made films in high definition format and the like. a. Internet Love , 24/7 - Sunset Boulevard, and after Cesare Pavese's suicide novella Sunset Motel , all of which were made in Los Angeles .

Eckhart Schmidt has also been active as a photographer since 2006 ; his photographs have been published in the books Window Girls and Mulholland Drive - Opening Scenes and shown at exhibitions in Germany and the USA . In 2011 Schmidt exhibited his paintings for the first time under the motto "The Art of Passion" in Los Angeles and Munich. In the same year Schmidt developed a new format, which he calls "photo vision", a combination of poetry , photography and music . The first photo vision was released on DVD in 2011 by Jam Entertainment. Schmidt continued his photographic work with works on graffiti art in Los Angeles, which were shown for the first time in Munich in February 2012, and in 2013 with the project A la recherche d'une fille perdue , which was exhibited in Munich and Los Angeles.

Schmidt published the double novel Hotel / Minorella in 2011 , and in 2012 the collection of stories Corridos - Stories , in which Schmidt describes borderline situations in Los Angeles and Mexico from the perspective of club girls . In 2014 Schmidt published a book about today's youth with the title Never alone, forever lonely . In his photography / poetry book Bad Girls Are Good Girls , Schmidt published poetic texts in English, Spanish, Italian and German, combined with photos taken in Rome, Venice , Palermo , Los Angeles and Munich . In 2015, Love And Hate was released in LA with photos and poetry and a lyrical epic entitled The Killing of Jeanny O. , which deals with the background of the murder of Ronnie Chasen.

In mid-2015, Schmidt left Los Angeles , where he had worked regularly for more than 30 years. Schmidt was married to actress Isi ter Jung for 46 years , who died in 2007.

In 2015/16 Schmidt published the novels Love and Death in the Afternoon and Hollywood Girl . Schmidt has also lived in Rome since 2016 , where he made nine feature films, which he summarized under the title The Roman Cycle, brought to the cinema and published on Blu-ray . In 2017 the volume of poetry Amore verticale was published.

In 2018, the films were from the Roman cycle in Trieste on the Festival I MILLE OCCHI Festival internazionale del cinema e delle arti shown. In the same year, his memoirs were published under the title Keywords and the volume of poetry Pomeriggio a Roma . Also in 2018 - in Rome and in Munich - Schmidt presented films from his Roman Cycle II in cinemas, which were released as Blu-ray boxes in early 2019. "With the silent film First Kiss and so ... Eckhart Schmidt has returned to the place where his cinematic work came from," wrote Josef Grübl in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In 2019 the premiere of Schmidt's film A Little Piece of Horror took place in the Munich Werkstattkino . Schmidt also presented three other new films - as part of the Filmkunstwochen 2020 - in Munich cinemas.

Since 2015 Schmidt has been married to the translator Gorana Dragas, who also works as a producer of Schmidt's films.

Honors

• 1991: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

Short films

• 1964: afternoon
• 1965: The escape
• 1991: midnight blue
• 1995: Intermediate music

Feature films

• 1967: Mädchen, Mädchen (book with Roger Fritz )
• 1968: Jet Generation (director, script with Roger Fritz)
• 1968: Eroticism on the school desk , Fantasy segment (director)
• 1970: Atlantis - A Summer Fairy Tale (written and directed)
• 1982: The Fan (written and directed)
• 1983: The Gold of Love (script and direction)
• 1984: The Story (written and directed)
• 1985: Loft - The New Seed of Violence (script and direction)
• 1985: Alphacity - billing takes place at night (script and direction)
• 1985: The Miracle (script and direction)
• 1985: The chicks are coming, as Raoul Sternberg (script and direction)
• 1986: How faithful is Nik? (Script, direction and production)
• 1992: Undine (script, direction and production)
• 1993: ETA Hoffmanns - Der Sandmann (script, direction and production)
• 1996: Broken Hearts (script, direction, music, coproduction)
• 1996: Kisses, Bites (script, director, production)
• 2000: Internet Love (script, direction, music, production)
• 2000: Girls - Mädchen - Ragazze (script, direction and production)
• 2002: 24/7 - Sunset Boulevard (script and direction)
• 2003: Sunset Motel (script, direction and production)
• 2010: Hollywood Fling: Diary of a Serial Killer, as Raoul Sternberg (writer, director and producer)
• 2016: Love and Death in the Afternoon
• 2016: my most beautiful summer
• 2016: Princess - Voices From Hell
• 2017: Stella
• 2017: Stella Reloaded
• 2017: Angels Flight
• 2017: It's Me
• 2017: Loving Valeria
• 2017: Amor Sacro, Amor Profano
• 2018: Mitologia 1
• 2018: Mitologia 2
• 2018: Color of Love
• 2018: Colore d'amore
• 2018: Abbundanza
• 2018: What Dreams May Come
• 2018: Solitudine 1
• 2018: Solitudine 2
• 2018: The Girl and the Octopus
• 2018: La musa
• 2018: La terza faccia
• 2019: First kiss and so ...
• 2019: Love's Places - places of love
• 2019: A Little Piece of Horror

Opera films

• 1990: Der Ring des Nibelungen (conception, artistic supervisor)
• 1991: The Flying Dutchman (Director)
• 1994: The Prince of Homburg (direction, production)

Documentaries

• 1980: Douglas Sirk: About Stars (written and directed)
• 1982: New Wave '92 - Rabiate Boredom
• 1991: To Hollywood - Douglas Sirk tells (script, direction and production)
• 1993: The cloakroom - Karlheinz Stempel tells
• 1993: Sawallisch
• 1994: Epstein in Hollywood - Julius J. Epstein Talks (Direction and Production)
• 1995: Christa Ludwig - Der Abschied (book, direction and production)
• 1996: Schumann-Hampson-Sawallisch (script, direction and production)
• 1996: Kundry
• 1997: Freedom in Hollywood - Rudolph S. Joseph on Douglas Sirk and GW Pabst
• 1997: Sunset Boulevard - 27 Miles America (script, direction and production)
• 1997: Hollywood, Germany (script, direction and production)
• 1997: Der Klassik-Kaiser (script, direction and production)
• 1997: Hollywood Dreamers (writer, director and producer)
• 1997: Black Hollywood (script, music director and production)
• 1997: Wu-Thang Clan: This Shit is from the Heart
• 1998: Karl Haas - Adventure Music (script, direction and production)
• 1999: Walter Haupt - The Film (script, direction and production)
• 1999: View and Vision: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman (script, direction and production)
• 1999: Hollywood Myth (script, direction and production)
• 1999: Gottfried Pilz - vision and fascination (script, direction and production)
• 2000: On Survival - The Story of Mania Hartmayer-Breuer (script, direction and production)
• 2000: Lost Angeles - A city between dream and trauma (script, direction and production)
• 2000: Las Vegas - The first city of the 21st century
• 2000: Kurt Moll - A man, a bass (script, direction and production)
• 2000: Hollywood Boulevard - The main street of the dream factory
• 2000: Visiting Tippi Hedren (script, direction and production)
• 2000: Visiting Don Murray (script, direction and production)
• 2000: Visiting Bud Boetticher (script, direction and production)
• 2001: Visit to Rod Steiger (direction and production)
• 2001: Visiting Ray Bradbury (director and producer)
• 2001: Visiting James Ellroy
• 2001: California Classic
• 2002: Inge Borkh - It sings from me (direction and production)
• 2002: Wolfgang Sawallisch - A life for music
• 2002: Young Hollywood - The dream factory reinvents itself (script and direction)
• 2002: The Mafia Princess - Susan Berman's Las Vegas Testament
• 2002: Francesco Rosi - Moments of Truth (script, direction and production)
• 2003: The World of Claude Chabrol (Direction and Production)
• 2003: Federico Fellini - With the eyes of others (script and direction)
• 2003: Motel California
• 2003: Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit to LA
• 2004: Muses, Power and Glamor - Die Welt der Maximilianstrasse (Direction and Production)
• 2004: men in trench coats, women in fur
• 2004: Hollywood Legends (writer, director and producer)
• 2004: Hitler's Last Days - The Film "Downfall" (written and directed)
• 2005: Sena Jurinac - Every thing has its time (direction and production)
• 2005: Die Meistersinger von München (direction and production)
• 2005: film legends. German (script, direction and production)
• 2005: Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals (written and directed)
• 2006: Myth Mozart - Music for the World (Director)
• 2006: Beyond Hollywood - Otto Preminger's Cinema (Director)
• 2006: Hollywoods Opera - An Opera for Los Angeles (Director)
• 2006: Jerry Lewis - King of the Comedians (Writer and Director)
• 2006: Jane Russell - The Star in the Hay (Direction and Production)
• 2007: Fred Zinnemann - The man who made "High Noon" (script, direction and production)
• 2007: Tatort Opera - How filmmakers make opera (script, direction and production)
• 2007: TV story (s). German (script and direction)
• 2007: Joachim Fuchsberger tells ... (concept, direction and production)
• 2008: glamor vs. Paparazzi (script, direction and production)
• 2008: Hildegard Behrens - expression and beauty (script, direction and production)
• 2008: Hollywood Gangster (writer, director and producer)
• 2008: Heimat - Your Films: The Dream of Paradise (script, direction and production)
• 2008: Heimat - Your Films: Stars, Fun and Reality
• 2009: The director Uli Edel - fantasy and facts (script, direction and production)
• 2009: Western Legends - Made in Hollywood (writer, director and producer)
• 2009: Ruth Leuwerik tells ... (script, direction and production)
• 2009: Margot Hielscher tells ... (script, direction and production)
• 2009: Fascinating women, fascinating voices ... (script, direction and production)
• 2009: Forbidden Music (script, direction and production)
• 2009: Glory and Misery in Hollywood - Natalie Wood
• 2010: Marilyn Monroe - I want to be loved
• 2010: Marilyn Monroe - Death of an Icon
• 2010: Mulholland Drive - A Hollywood Myth (writer, director and producer)
• 2010: Mythos Metropolis (script, direction and production)
• 2010: Percy Adlon tells ... (script, direction and production)
• 2010: Tony Curtis tells ... (script, direction and production)
• 2010: Elke Sommer tells ... (script, direction, production)
• 2011: Bernd Eichinger tells ... (script, direction, production)
• 2011: Hollywood Scandals (script, direction, production)
• 2011: The Path of Fame - Hollywood's Walk of Fame (writer, director, producer)
• 2012: The Last Graffiti Show (script, direction, production)
• 2013: Stardust Hollywood - stardust and worlds of gods (script, direction, production)
• 2013: Hollywood Rebellen (script, direction, production)
• 2015: Cinema Italiano - Moments of Truth (script, direction, production)
• 2015: Helmut Dietl tells ... (script, direction, production)
• 2016: Made in Hollywood: Hitchcock's blondes
• 2017: Made in Hollywood: The World of Raoul Walsh
• 2017: Made in Hollywood: The World of Budd Boetticher
• 2017: Made in Hollywood: The World of William Wellman
• 2017: Sonja Ziemann tells ...
• 2017: Peter Kraus tells ...
• 2017: Los Angeles narrates ...
• 2017: Karin Michalke: Best time on the Alm
• 2017: Julie Taymor: Shakespeare's Cinema
• 2017: Harold Nebenzal tells ...
• 2017: Artur Brauner tells ...
• 2017: Robert Sigl tells ... (script, direction, production)
• 2017: Carroll Baker: from baby doll to lady glamor
• 2017: F. Scott Fitzgerald: His secretary Frances Kroll Ring tells ...
• 2019: Ludwig I. - Italian elegy

Photo vision

• 2011: Photo vision: photography, poetry, music
• 2012: Motel Girls
• 2013: All about Girls

Books

• with Andrej A. Voznesenskij and Alexander Kaempfe: Dreieckige Birne , Suhrkamp, ​​1963.
• DER FAN Diary of a sixteen-year-old , Droemer Knaur, 1982, ISBN 3-426-02452-7 .
• The gold of love , Droemer Knaur, 1983, ISBN 3-426-02453-5 .
• The story , Droemer Knaur, 1984, ISBN 3-426-02455-1 .
• Das Tagebuch des Feuerpferds , Dieve Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-927131-08-3 .
• The loneliness of the polar bear and other fascinating stories (= mysterious animal world), Bastei Luebbe Verlagsgruppe, 1989, ISBN 3-404-63204-4 .
• The Bavarian Film Prize '94, '95 and '96. , Olzog - Aktuell GmbH, 1999, ISBN 3-7892-7393-7 .
• Window Girls: Photo Book , Belleville, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936298-59-8 .
• Mulholland Drive - Opening Scenes: Photo Book , Belleville, 2009, ISBN 978-3-936298-59-8 .
• ROMA / AMOR - Photo book , Belleville, 2010, ISBN 978-3936298154 .
• Hotel / Minorella (2 novels), ESP Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035154-9 .
• Corridos - Erzählungen , ESP Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036118-0 .
• Bad Girls Are Good Girls , ESP Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043694-9 .
• Never alone, forever lonely ; ESP Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043917-9 .
• Love and Hate in LA , Belleville Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943157-81-9
• Hollywood Girl , ES Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-3000529146
• Amore Verticale , ES Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-3000558283
• La La Land Stories , ES Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-3000570841
• Keywords , ES Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-3000590849
• Pomeriggio a Roma , ES Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-3000590856
• Motel Girls - Poems and Photographs , Belleville, 2018, ISBN 978-3943157000
• First kiss and so ... , ES Publishing, 2019, ISBN 978-3982058009
• Prison Zoo , ES Publishing, 2019, ISBN 978-3982058016

Web links

• Eckhart Schmidt's website
• Eckhart Schmidt at filmportal.de
• Eckhart Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography on Drehbuchwerkstatt.de
• Biography ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on lounge.nettuner.de
• Appreciation ( Memento from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on german-films.de (engl.)
• http://www.weltderwunder.de/videos/0_044gm8ve (Eckhart Schmidt | Raphaela Ackermann)
• Eckhart Schmidt on his 75th birthday - Münchner Stadtmuseum.pdf
• Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt: What is happening in German film? Eckhart Schmidt presents MY MOST BEAUTIFUL SUMMER /
• Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt: What is happening in German film? Video of the conversation with Eckhart Schmidt
• epd Film: What is happening in German film? With Eckhart Schmidt, 2018
• Film collective Frankfurt: Homage to Eckhart Schmidt on his 80th birthday
• Z-inema Berlin: Double Feature with Eckhart Schmidt, for his 80th birthday
• Essential Eckhart Schmidt: retrospective, premieres and carte blanche for the 80th birthday in the Werkstattkino Munich /

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Distance to Truthfulness. The uncompromising film poet Eckhart Schmidt turns 80. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 30, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( online [accessed November 30, 2018]).
2. ↑ ibid.
3. ↑ S! A! U! - Sub Bavaria. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ http://www.artistbooks.de/suchen/volltextsuche-alle.php?WERTVERLAG=S!A!U!-Verlag
5. ↑ Dunja Bialas: Myths, Miezen, Trash and Dante - An interview with Eckhart Schmidt about the theatrical release of his "Roman Trilogy" on: artechock.de on April 13, 2017.
6. ↑ I Mille Occhi 2018 - Presentazione / On: quinlan.it of September 13, 2018.
7. ↑ ANNUNCIATO IL PROGRAMMA DELLA XVII EDIZIONE
8. ↑ I Mille Occhi 2018. Corpo, sguardo e silenzio On: www.rapportoconfidenziale.org of September 6, 2018.
9. ^ I Mille Occhi Trieste Cultura (website).
10. ↑ Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Anteprima della XVII edizione di I mille occhi - Festival internazionale del cinema e delle arti. Retrieved March 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Essential Eckhart Schmidt: Work Show, Premieres and Carte Blanch. carpe diem, November 1, 2018, archived from the original on November 29, 2018 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (original website no longer available). 
12. ↑ Josef Grübl: Munich girls . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 9, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( online [accessed July 17, 2019]).
13. ↑ A Little Piece of Horror (D / USA 2019): Film info: artechock. Retrieved July 17, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Josef Grübl: Let your dreams run free. In: Südeutsche Zeitung. July 29, 2020, accessed August 26, 2020 .