Edgar von Heeringen
Edgar von Heeringen (born March 5, 1941 in Berlin ; † December 16, 2019 in Wiesbaden ) was a German director .
Life
Edgar von Heeringen was born on March 5, 1941 in Berlin.
His career began in 1959 as a volunteer at Saar Film Produktion. The following year, he visited the German Institute for Film and Television in Munich (1966 University of Television and Film Munich ) and worked in parallel as a manager , assistant director and camera assistant . 1960 turned the American director Byron Haskin , including in Munich, War Armored Command ( tanks forward ). In this production was from Edgar Heeringen camera assistant to Ernest Haller , who through his camera work in the film classic (Gone with the wind Gone with the Wind ) became famous. In 1961 Edgar von Heeringen switched to the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation as assistant production and director . In November 1962, he was the director of images at ZDF for the news program heute , Die Drehscheibe, as well as for Bundestag debates and live broadcasts from various party conferences .
His actual directing career began at the age of 22. In 1963 he directed the special broadcast 15 Years of the Bundestag with Konrad Adenauer . From 1965 at the fashion-music broadcasts Paris , Rome , London currently . From 1971 to 1980 at the VIP swing with Margret Dünser . He was also co-author and director of portraits about Nelson Rockefeller ( they call him Rocky ), Ronald Biggs ( not even the fame stayed ), Richard Burton ( who tells me who I am ), Sophia Loren ( a Neapolitan miracle ) , Henry Miller ( Confessions of Henry Miller ), Orson Welles ( Orson Welles, the marketed genius ) and Ivan Cipher ( The 1000 Deaths of Ivan Cipher ).
Margret Dünser died on June 5, 1980 and Edgar von Heeringen set her a cinematic monument the following year as a writer and director with the homage to Margret Dünser, in search of something special .
In the 1980s he directed the cooking show Essen wie Gott in Germany and the entertainment program Klassentreffen . As an editor, he oversaw the smirk stories and laugh again .
The programs Paris aktuell and VIP-Schaukel are still shown today at film schools as examples of new ways of television entertainment.
Edgar von Heeringen was retired in 1999 . He died on December 16, 2019.
ancestors
The von Heeringens (formerly also Heringen) are a Thuringian nobility with the parent company of the same name near Sangerhausen. The first was Reinardus de Heringen, whose name was mentioned in the documents of the Walkenried (Grotefend) monastery in 1172. The von Heeringen family has been spelled out since the middle of the eighteenth century. An Alsatian and Hessian family of the same name from Heeringen died out in the sixteenth century.
Web links
- Edgar von Heeringen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heeringen, Edgar von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th December 2019 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |