Fritz Poppenberg

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Fritz Poppenberg (* 1949 ) is a German auteur filmmaker , cameraman , producer and director . He mainly produces documentaries on controversial topics.

Life

Poppenberg first did an apprenticeship as a lithographer before studying at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and later at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin .

Fritz Poppenberg was a cameraman for good times, bad times . As an auteur filmmaker, he mainly produces documentaries on the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under National Socialism and, from August 1950 in the GDR , on the persecution of Christians in the present . In doing so, “he takes the side of the weaker and looks at the situation from their perspective”. He also made films about creation in the creationist sense and about the right to life movement .

reception

His films Mein Vater (1982) and Die AIDS-Rebellen (1992) received the rating “Particularly Valuable” from the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Office .

The evolutionary biologist Ulrich Kutschera made Poppenberg's creationist films like Does the Bible have it right? The evolution theory lacks the proofs (1998) and its continuations as an example of “creationism as a flourishing business” in Germany. The film received an award from the Christian Media Association KEP .

Filmography

  • My father (1982)
  • Under Jehovah's protection. Two friends remember the time in the concentration camp (1988)
  • The AIDS Rebels (1992)
  • Do not be afraid. Resistance and Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under the Nazi Regime (1997)
  • Isn't the Bible right? Evolution Theory Lacks Evidence (1998)
  • Follow me. Jehovah's Witnesses under the GDR regime (1999)
  • Blood, to life and death. Blood transfusions under fire (2000)
  • God does not play dice. On the bitter struggle between science and ideology (2001)
  • Give to the emperor what is to the emperor and to God what is of God. Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have Corporate Rights? (2002)
  • "The girl with the purple triangle" - How 18-year-old Hermi survived the concentration camp (2003)
  • The Fall of the Ape Man. The theory of evolution cannot explain the origin of humans (2004)
  • The painter Heinz Tetzner (2007)
  • "Maria and her children" - On a social taboo (2007)
  • How tolerant is Islam? - The attack on the Mor Gabriel monastery (2009), ISBN 978-3-936344-51-6
  • The Inconvenient Truth About Islam (2019)

Awards

  • Rating: Valuable for “Grohnde”, documentary film, 1977
  • Rating: Particularly valuable for “My Father”, documentary film, 1981
  • Rating: Valuable for “Stranded on the High Seas”, documentary film, 1985
  • Rating: Particularly valuable for “Die AIDS Rebellen”, documentary film, 1991
  • Rating: Valuable for “Not Afraid”, documentary 1997
  • Media Prize Golden Compass for Is the Bible Right? The theory of evolution lacks evidence , 1999
  • First place for Best Design at the 4th Golden Decade Awards, Chicago, USA, 2000 for Is the Bible Right? The theory of evolution lacks evidence , 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation on the Nazi group of victims to the Advisory Board of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation: Johannes Wrobel (July 19, 2001) The persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under National Socialism . PDF on website: jwhistory.net . Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Peter Carstens (2011) "Creationism is a flourishing business" . GEO , Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Kutschera (February 15, 2009) Evolution theory: The crude theses of German anti-Darwinists . In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved June 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Poppenberg, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, film producer, film director and creationist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949