Franz Reichle

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Franz Reichle (born October 3, 1949 in Wattwil ) is a Swiss filmmaker and university lecturer .

Life

Reichle grew up in Toggenburg and studied graphics at the Zurich School of Design and visual communication and film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . In 1981 he began building the first film design training in Switzerland at what was then the School of Design in Zurich. In the late 1980s he made the documentary Traumzeit, the first Swiss-Soviet co-production. He then stayed for seven years in Ulan-Ude and on Lake Baikal , where he produced reports and short stories for television and print media, including for SF1's hit series Moscow-Beijing . As a writer and director, partly also as a producer, cameraman, sound engineer and editor, he mainly made full-length documentaries. The best known are The Knowledge of Healing (1997) on Tibetan Medicine and Monte Grande - What is Life? (2004) on the biologist and philosopher Francisco Varela .

From 2004 to 2012 he was professor for moving images / film at the Zurich University of the Arts . He has also been working in his own practice as a therapist for Ayurvedic massages since 2009.

Filmography

  • 1976: Rosmarie, Susanne, Ruth (documentary film)
  • 1981: turn of the year (installation)
  • 1986: Moment (experimental film)
  • 1990: Lynx (documentary)
  • 1992: Dreamtime (documentary)
  • 1993: Life on Baikal (short film)
  • 1993: Buryatia and the power struggle in Moscow (short film)
  • 1994: Saizew Moda (short film)
  • 1997: The Knowledge of Healing (Documentary)
  • 2004: Monte Grande - What is life? (Documentary)
  • 2011: Francisco Cisco Pancho - autobiography of Francisco Varela (documentary)
  • 2016: Mind & Life - Early Dialogues (documentary)

Books

  • The knowledge of healing - Tibetan medicine (Oesch Verlag, new release 2012 by AT Verlag)

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personal data
SURNAME Reichle, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss filmmaker and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattwil