Elfi Kreiter

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Elfi Kreiter and Georg Stefan Troller editing a personal description in the ZDF studio in Paris (1986)

Elfi Kreiter (* 1936 ) is a German editor who initially worked for the SDR and then for the ZDF, mainly in the documentary sector. Among other things, she edited many award-winning documentaries by Georg Stefan Troller and Hans-Dieter Grabe . This resulted in completely different films in terms of style and style, some of them rapid and virtuoso, the others narrating in large, calm arcs. She compared creating a film in the editing room to "composing" music. Elfi Kreiter (until 1980 Elfi Harder) was the first editor to receive a Grimme Prize for her work in 1991(in gold). A year later she received the German Camera Award for editing the ZDF report Pére Aristide - Last Chance for Haiti .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1970: Only light fighting in the Da Nang area (HD grave)
  • 1974: Muhammad Ali . The long way back ( person description / GS Troller)
  • 1975: Peter Handke in Paris ( personal description / GS Troller)
  • 1977: Ron Kovic . Why don't you disappear ( Description of person / GS Troller)
  • 1980: Cut, but don't cut deep (Eva Hoffmann)
  • 1981: Encounter in prison (description of person / GS Troller)
  • 1982: bull rider. The longest 8 seconds in the world ( person description / GS Troller)
  • 1983: Russ Meyer - Sex, violence and cars ( personal description / GS Troller)
  • 1985: Hiroshima, Nagasaki - atomic bomb victims testify (HD grave)
  • 1985: Leonard Cohen . Hallelujah in minor ( person description / GS Troller)
  • 1986: Albert Race Sample - Survival in Texas ( personal description / GS Troller)
  • 1986: Abdullah Yakupoglu - "Why did I kill my daughter?" (Life experiences / HD grave)
  • 1988: Art Spiegelman - of cats and mice ( description of person / GS Troller)
  • 1990: Dien, Chinh Cung and Tung - Life experiments in Vietnam (life experiences / HD grave)
  • 1991: Pére Aristide - Last chance for Haiti (ZDF report / GS Troller)
  • 1991: Do Sanh (life experiences / HD grave)
  • 1993: Niklas Frank - the murderer's son (description of person / GS Troller)
  • 1994: He called himself Hohenstein - From the diary of a German official commissioner in occupied Poland 1940-42 (HD Grabe)

Films about Kreiter

  • Sections in space and time. Documentary by Gabriele Voss and Christoph Hübner. The film describes u. a. Kreiter's editing work, 2006

literature

  • Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (ed.): Ben Patterson Analog. Photographs by Elfi Kreiter. With texts by Carina Heuckmann and Lila Agoritsa Kapsioti. Wiesbaden 2009
  • Troller, Georg Stefan: If necessary, everything can still be saved in the cutting room. In: Marschall, Susanne and Witzke, Bodo (ed.): "We are all cannibals". Georg Stefan Troller and the love for the documentary. St. Augustin 1999. p. 145 ff.
  • Waz, Gerlinde: "Designing a film is like composing". A conversation with the editor Elfi Kreiter. In: Hartmann, Britta and Waz, Gerlinde (eds.): Georg Stefan Troller. Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television 2016. P. 15 ff.
  • Witzke, Bodo : “The little miracle film”. Elfi Kreiter in conversation. In: Marschall, Susanne and Witzke, Bodo (ed.): "We are all cannibals". Georg Stefan Troller and the love for the documentary. St. Augustin 1999. p. 103 ff.
  • Witzke, Bodo: Amazing cuts and crystal clear sequences. Sectional analysis of a description of a person . In: Marschall, Susanne and Witzke, Bodo (ed.): "We are all cannibals". Georg Stefan Troller and the love for the documentary. St. Augustin 1999. p. 267 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waz, Gerlinde: "Designing a film is like composing". A conversation with the editor Elfi Kreiter. In: Hartmann, Britta and Waz, Gerlinde (eds.): Georg Stefan Troller. Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television 2016. p. 15
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel: Heavy fight. For more than 20 years, ZDF editor Hans-Dieter Grabe followed the fate of a Vietnam victim. 1991
personal data
SURNAME Kreiter, Elfi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1936