Ernst Cantzler
Ernst Cantzler (born May 27, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German screenwriter and director .
Life
Ernst Cantzler was born in Berlin as the son of a civil servant and a kindergarten teacher. He attended a primary school in Berlin with his six siblings and learned to be a welder . But his passion was acting, so that, in addition to his job, he appeared as a supporting actor in DEFA feature films. In 1962 he successfully applied as a theater actor at the Salzlandtheater in Staßfurt .
After three years of military service in the National People's Army , he began working as an assistant director in a film studio of the People's Army in 1968. At that time he was already planning to study directing to become a theater director - but he gave up this dream in favor of a civil servant career. In the years that followed, Cantzler did his A-levels and got a position as assistant director in the DEFA studio for documentary films. From 1971 to 1977 he also studied directing at the University of Film and Television Potsdam .
After completing his studies in 1977 he was employed as a full-time director in the DEFA studio for documentary films, where he also worked until the reunification in 1991, before ending his career as a film director. Up until the mid-1980s, he and a handful of colleagues directed around 150 children's films, as well as elaborate television productions for German television , such as: … vom Flug ein Film (1975).
Between 1982 and 1988 he worked as a board member of the Association of Film and Television Workers in the GDR.
Ernst Cantzler lives with his wife and their son near Berlin.
Filmography
- 1975: The Special Day: The Surprise (TV series)
- 1976: Our Sandman: Rostock I (TV series)
- 1976: Our sandman: Rostock II
- 1976: The special day: Drop dreams
- 1977: Our sandman: chimney sweep
- 1979: All These Fires (short documentary)
- 1979: Cuba, Insel der Jugend (documentary film)
- 1979: The language of steps (short documentary film)
- 1980: The special day: truck drivers
- 1981: Giant Journey (short documentary film)
- 1982: Hurray, hurray, hurray, the fire brigade is here! (TV documentary)
- 1983: Looped through Zilles area (short documentary film)
- 1984: Sylvia
- 1984: a strange love
- 1984: Our Sandman: Spiegelbeleger
- 1985: letters from the flag
- 1986: Experienced in Zilles Scheunenviertel
- 1986: Blonde Tango
- 1987: Ernst Braun (short documentary)
- 1988: Zwirbel train driver (short documentary film)
- 1989: And on Fridays to the Green Hell (documentary)
- 1990: Our sandman: dog groomer
Awards
His children's films were regularly awarded prizes at the Gera Children's and Youth Film Week. In 1983 , his film Poetry and Rhubarb received the Findlings Prize for the best documentary there. In 1989 his film ... and Fridays to the Green Hell at the GDR National Festival for Short and Documentary Films in Neubrandenburg was also awarded the Findlings Prize. But he could not achieve international awards.
Web links
- Ernst Cantzler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ernst Cantzler on film-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold: Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR. VISTAS, Berlin 2001, page 438
- ↑ http://www.defa-stiftung.de/1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cantzler, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |