Frieder Wagner

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Frieder Wagner (* 1942 in Bensen ) is a German film producer and recipient of the Grimme Prize .

Life

Frieder Wagner was born in Northern Bohemia and grew up in Hof (Saale) until he graduated from high school . From 1966 to 1969 he was camera assistant with Lucas Maria Böhmer, Gérard Vandenberg and Jan de Bont and in 1970 he started his own business as a freelance light-setting cameraman for advertising and games. As the cameraman responsible for many documentaries, the documentary he photographed received Ausländer raus? the 1983 Adolf Grimme Prize in gold. He had already received the Grimme Prize in silver for a long-term documentary. Wagner is also the recipient of the European Television Prize for Direction and Production.

Since 1982 Wagner has been producing his own films and documentaries in personal union as author , cameraman and director . In cooperation with Elvira Ochoa he founded the Ochoa-Wagner film production. Since 1986 he has also worked with ZDF and developed, among other things, the 18-part cultural series How Thinking Determines the World . From 1992 he shot larger, also investigative documentaries for ARD , ZDF and WDR , such as The Dark Side of Power - Machiavelli and Morals in Politics , The Elisabeth Käsemann Case - That You Are Silent Under Torture , What Is Wanted ... A Disappeared Million Heir , The General and the victims - Germans complain against Pinochet and with ARTE conspiracy of silence and many more.

From 2003, Wagner shot the documentary The Doctor and the Radiated Children of Basra about the effects of uranium ammunition , which was broadcast in the WDR series Die Story . For this he received the European Television Award at ÖKOMEDIA 2004. In the 93-minute documentary film Deadly Dust from 2007, financed with his own funds , Wagner describes his research on the subject and in particular the experiences of the physician Siegwart Horst Günther , who has been using Depleted uranium in ammunition as the cause of the Gulf War syndrome and malformations as a result of genetic defects investigated and complained. Deadly Dust is probably the most extensive film documentary about the use of uranium ammunition and its consequences and was partly included in the film War Promise . On death dust although many invitations followed Wagner to lectures and publications on uranium ammunition, but Wagner since his documentary The doctor and the Dying Children Basra will not get a job. There is still no film distribution for dust of death .

Wagner published a. a. at Kai Homilius Verlag .

Wagner is married, has two children and lives in Cologne .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1969: The Sparrow from Wallrafplatz
  • 1980: Better take something away
  • 1981: Vringsveedeler triptych
  • 1989: El Vindicator! Kurt Gustav Wilckens with Osvaldo Bayer (screenplay)
  • 2003: The doctor and the irradiated children of Basra
  • 2007: Deadly Dust
  • 2009: War Promise

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.laika-verlag.de/sites/default/files/leseproben/bdwband8/files/assets/seo/page16.html
  2. ↑ https://www.laika-verlag.de/sites/default/files/leseproben/bdwband8/files/assets/seo/page16.html
  3. ↑ http://frieder-wagner.kulturserver-nrw.de/
  4. ↑ http://frieder-wagner.kulturserver-nrw.de/
  5. ↑ https://www.laika-verlag.de/sites/default/files/leseproben/bdwband8/files/assets/seo/page16.html
  6. ↑ https://www.laika-verlag.de/sites/default/files/leseproben/bdwband8/files/assets/seo/page16.html
  7. ↑ Interview with Frieder Wagner on YouTube , 39: 15–40: 35, accessed on June 29, 2011
  8. ↑ Interview with Frieder Wagner at Muslim-Markt on August 21, 2009, accessed on June 29, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Frieder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensen , Sudetenland, now the Czech Republic