Erwin Michelberger

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Erwin Michelberger (born September 25, 1950 in Bad Saulgau ) is a German director and filmmaker .

Life

Erwin Michelberger studied film at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He has made numerous documentaries, some of them award-winning, as well as three feature films, for which he also wrote the book. Most of his documentaries and feature films have been co-produced by ARD or ZDF .

In his first documentary There is still a lot to say , which was made in collaboration with Raimund Hoghe in 1980 , Michelberger addressed Holocaust survivors in a Jewish old people's home in Düsseldorf. His later works also often deal with people who are marginalized or who are on the margins of society. The documentary Or how does the world look about Düsseldorf crooks called "Der Spiegel" a "juicy social studies from the basement of the affluent society". Other documentaries deal with criminals in forensic psychiatry ( I don't want to be Jack the Ripper! ), Transvestites ( slip into a different skin ) or people with Tourette's syndrome ( DOCH ).

In the film "LUS or Taste of Life", Michelberger describes the funeral rites of Jews, Christians and Muslims, especially the different ways in which the dead body is dealt with. In his latest documentary "Neighbors for Life", the director shows the coexistence of neighbors in Cologne's Probsteigasse, also against the background of the bomb attack on an Iranian family in 2001. "The film tries," wrote the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger", " Packing absurdity and everyday life. It works. "

Erwin Michelberger lives in Cologne. For more than ten years he was chairman of the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf e. V.

Filmography (excerpt)

  • 1980: Much remains to be said , documentary, WDR
  • 1981: Or what does the world look like , documentary, co-director: Marina Achenbach and Paco Knöller , WDR
  • 1983: For a while, it was in Rome , feature film, ZDF
  • 1984: Acting , documentary, with Bruno Ganz and Stefan Jürgens , WDR
  • 1986: Slipping into a different skin , documentary, WDR
  • 1988: Headfire , feature film, in a leading role Seyran Ateş , NDR
  • 1989: Far, Far Beyond , documentary, WDR
  • 1992: Signs of life - Claude, 22 years old, has killed himself , documentary, WDR
  • 1994: Traumstreuner , feature film, with Bernd Gnann , SDR
  • 1996: Save love - to kill you , film essay, WDR / SWF
  • 1998: I don't want to be a Jack the Ripper! , Documentary, ZDF
  • 1999: Flowers love above , documentary, WDR / SWR / SFB
  • 2002: Schlittenchenken , documentary, co-director: Oleg Tcherny, BR
  • 2005: N like no one , documentary, RBB / ARTE
  • 2006: DOCH , documentary film, ZDF / 3sat
  • 2010: LUS or taste for life , documentary, ZDF / 3sat
  • 2015: Wunderwerk , documentary film
  • 2017: Neighbors for Life , documentary, ZDF / 3sat

Awards

  • 1989: Max Ophüls Prize : Promotion Prize for Head Fires
  • 2002: ARTE documentary film award for the best German documentary film for sleigh taverns

literature

  • Daniel S. Ribeiro: LUS or Taste of Life: Death in Contemporary Documentary Film , in: Jessica Nitsche: Dancing with Death: Death and Dance of Death in Film . Berlin: Neofelis Verlag 2015. ISBN 978-3-943414-58-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Düsseldorf Halunkiade." - Der Spiegel No. 39 of 23 September 1985, p 254
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Michelberger, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Saulgau