Edmund Ballhaus
Edmund Ballhaus (born March 4, 1954 in Echte ) is a German cultural scientist , filmmaker and non-fiction author .
Life
Ballhaus received his doctorate in 1984. Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was the village development in the mirror of photography , which caused quite a stir. She has received two major prizes, the 1985 Kodak Photo Book Prize and the 1986 Pitre Marino International Prize . Ballhaus was a scientific advisor at the Institute for Scientific Film in Göttingen from 1986 to 1989 . During this time he made several films for university teaching in German-speaking countries. From 1989 to 2009 he worked as an academic advisor at the Department of Folklore at the University of Göttingen, where he initiated the focus on visual anthropology. In 1990 he founded the Society for Cultural Studies Film and was chairman of the film committee of the German Society for Folklore . He was also a member of the Folklore Commission for Lower Saxony and its chairman from 1998 to 2002. As a cultural studies filmmaker, he has produced numerous documentaries for universities, schools and museums as well as for various television stations. For his eleven-part documentary series about East Frisia (“East Frisia Saga”) he received the “East Frisian Indigenate” awarded by the East Frisian Landscape in 2011 , which corresponds to an East Frisian honorary citizenship. In the folklore dissertation “Cultural-scientific filming in transition. The film work of Edmund Ballhaus ”( ISBN 978-3-8391-0616-7 ), the author Peter Gürge analyzes all of Edmund Ballhaus’s films up to the year 2000.
Book publications
- 1985: Village development in the mirror of photography and in the awareness of the residents using the example of Echte , ISBN 3-7625-2361-4
- 1986: Farewell to the old village , ISBN 3-7625-2409-2
- 1995: The Ethnographic Film , ISBN 3-496-02552-2
- 1997: Die Paragraphenreiter , ISBN 3-406-42014-1
- 2001: Cultural Studies, Film and the Public , ISBN 3-89325-921-X
- 2013: The East Frisian Wok , ISBN 978-3-86412-062-6
- 2013: Documentary: Schools - Projects - Concepts , (Editor), ISBN 978-3-496-02864-2
- 2015: The East Frisian Stage , ISBN 978-3-86412-076-3
- 2018: Ships are made in the sky , ISBN 978-3-8378-5036-9
Filmography (selection)
- 1991: Broken glass harvest in the border area
- 1992: Lion eats chamois
- 1993: Where the Lord God still counts
- 1996: Man lives above the coal
- 1996: Oh, if only I had stayed a bachelor
- 2001: Serbski son (dare to speak Sorbian)
- 2002: To the neighbor across the Great Sea. Stories from the ice
- 2003: rose red and bitter blue. Stories from the fair
- 2006: Window to the Moor. Stories from no man's land
- 2007: Last exit logger
- 2008: Paths across the river
Web links
- Gürge, Peter 2000: Cultural Studies Filming in Transition. The film work of Edmund Ballhaus. Dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Full text (PDF file; 3.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Die Paragraphenreiter , Verlag CH Beck Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42014-1 , p. 2
- ↑ Uni Göttingen biography ( memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 18, 2011
- ↑ Emder Zeitung article ( memento of August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), published on: May 16, 2011, accessed on November 18, 2011
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| SURNAME | Ballhaus, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural scientist, filmmaker and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4th 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Real |