Elfi Mikesch
Elfi Mikesch , actually Elfriede Mikesch (born May 31, 1940 in Judenburg , Styria ) is an Austrian- German photographer , multiple award-winning camerawoman and film director .
Live and act
The daughter of a projectionist completed her photography training and worked as a painter. In 1960 she married the painter and radio play author Fritz Mikesch and came with him from Innsbruck to Frankfurt am Main in 1963 . Here she met Rosa von Praunheim and moved to West Berlin in 1965 , where she worked for the V. Magdalinski publishing house. In 1969 she published Oh Muvie with Rosa von Praunheim , an "anarchist photo story."
Edgar Allan Poe's short story “The Mask of Red Death” inspired Elfi Mikesch to make her film debut on Super-8 in 1970 , which is considered lost.
In 1971 she shot with passion , the cinematic result of a trip around the world with Fritz Mikesch, directed by Rosa von Praunheim, her first film as a camerawoman. In 1972 she was responsible for the make-up and costumes of Werner Schroeters Salome , for whom she made the camera in numerous film productions. More photo series and slide shows followed before she made a name for herself as a specialist in experimental films, which she directed herself, since 1980 . She also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a. a. for ZDF, and was repeatedly hired as a camerawoman by directors such as Rosa von Praunheim, Werner Schroeter, Peter Lilienthal and Monika Treut , with whom she founded the company Hyäne / Hyäna Film in Hamburg in 1984.
In 1983/84 she taught directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Since 1991 she has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , Film and Media Art Section.
Filmography
- 1970: Charisma. A memory of death. (Camera, director, missing)
- 1972: Passions (camera)
- 1978: I often think of Hawaii (camera, director, screenplay, editor)
- 1979: Execution: A Story of Mary (camera, direction, screenplay, production, editing)
- 1980: What should we do without death (camera, direction, screenplay, editing)
- 1981: Zechmeister (advice)
- 1982: Macumba (Director)
- 1982: In the year of the snake (camera)
- 1983: Canale grande (camera)
- 1983: The Blue Distance (camera, director, screenplay)
- 1983: The Hyena's Breakfast (camera, director, screenplay)
- 1984: Horror Vacui (camera)
- 1985: Seduction: The Cruel Woman (camera, director, screenplay, production)
- 1986: a virus knows no morals (camera)
- 1986: The Rose King (camera)
- 1987: Anita - Dances of Vice (camera)
- 1988: The Maiden Machine (camera, production)
- 1989: Marocain (camera, director, screenplay)
- 1990: The AIDS trilogy: Fire under the ass - On the life and death of gay men in Berlin (camera)
- 1991: Malina (camera)
- 1991: At the end of a childhood ( A Idade Maior , camera)
- 1991: The Party: Nature Morte (camera)
- 1991: My Father is coming - A Bavarian in New York ( My Father Is Coming , camera)
- 1992: Female Misbehavior (camera)
- 1994: Hey Stranger (camera)
- 1994: Let's Talk About Sex ( Erotique , camera)
- 1994: Soldiers Soldiers (Director)
- 1995: Out of America (camera)
- 1996: Dangerous Places - Bombers (Camera, Director)
- 1996: Poussières d'amour - waste products of love (camera)
- 1997: Daily Chicken (camera)
- 1997: Stay crazy - stay in love (camera, director, screenplay)
- 1998: Life, Love & Celluloid (camera)
- 1999: Gendernauts - A journey through the sexes (camera)
- 1999: The Einstein of Sex (camera)
- 2000: For me there was only Fassbinder (camera)
- 2001: Mon Paradis - The Winter Palace (camera, director, screenplay)
- 2001: The Markus Family (camera, director, screenplay)
- 2001: Warrior of Light (camera)
- 2001: I think of Germany - a stranger (camera)
- 2002: Deux (camera)
- 2002: I can do it! (Camera)
- 2003: I am the Eiffel Tower (series Stranger Children , camera)
- 2003: The Terrible Parents ( Les parents terribles , camera)
- 2004: Passion Hölderlin (camera)
- 2005: Christoph Schlingensief and his films (camera)
- 2005: The tiger women grow wings, (camera)
- 2006: Brinkmanns Zorn (camera)
- 2006: Hahnemanns Medicine (camera, director)
- 2007: My mothers - search for traces in Riga (camera)
- 2008: Dead Gays - Living Lesbians (camera)
- 2008: Cisterns - Istanbul's Sunken Palaces (Director)
- 2008: Strong for life (camera)
- 2008: Spielzone - In the wake of virtual worlds (camera)
- 2011: Mondo Lux - The Imagery of Werner Schroeter (Director)
- 2012: The butterfly hunter - 37 index cards for Nabokov (camera)
- 2014: Fieber (Director, Screenplay)
- 2015: hardness (camera)
Awards
- 1978: Silver film tape for I often think of Hawaii
- 1980: Silver film tape for Execution: A Story of Mary
- 1986: Promotional Award for The King of the Roses
- 1992: German camera award for Malina
- 1997: Grand Documentary Award and Award for Best Director
- 1997: 3sat documentary film award
- 1998: Grand Prize of the Barcelona International Film Festival
- 2006: German Camera Prize: Award of the camera of honor
- 2010: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Film Prize
- 2014: Special prize of the Teddy Award for her artistic life achievement
Exhibitions
- 2018: waste products of love. An exhibition with works by Elfi Mikesch, Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter
- 2020: Catching the Light. Hirschheydt Gallery, Berlin
literature
- Oh Muvie (di Elfi Mikesch): Oh Muvie presents Rosa von Praunheim and Carla Aulaulu in 'Oh Muvie' , Heinrich-Heine Verlag, Streit-Zeit-Buch , No. 5, Frankfurt a. M., 1969.
- Rosa von Praunheim: Sex and Career , Rogner & Bernhard, Munich, 1976. With many photos by Elfi Mikesch / Oh Muvie .
- Elfi Mikesch: Dream of Things. Photographs 1967 - 2002 . Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-927795-34-1 and ISBN 3-927795-34-8
- Rosa von Praunheim (Ed.): Elfi Mikesch: Vis-à-vis. Photographs and film 80.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elfi Mikesch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elfi Mikesch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website by Elfi Mikesch
- TV interview with Elfi Mikesch in the magazine an.schlag tv : Part 1 , Part 2
- “This energy that illuminates life itself” , interview with critic.de
- 28th TEDDY AWARD Ceremony, laudation for Elfi Mikesch (Youtube)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Claus Löser: The miracle of transformation. In: Berliner Zeitung. May 31, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .
- ^ German Camera Prize 2006: Prize to Elfi Mikesch. March 21, 2018, accessed on June 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ cf. dpa : Murnau Film Prize: Schroeter and Mikesch honored at n-tv.de, March 14, 2010 (accessed on March 15, 2010)
- ↑ Festival regular Elfi Mikesch. My father, the legionnaire , Der Tagesspiegel, February 10, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mikesch, Elfi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mikesch, Elfriede |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German camerawoman and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Judenburg |