Götz Weidner
Götz Weidner (born December 12, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German set designer .
life and work
Götz Weidner was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father Bernhard Weidner was a film journalist, his mother Gisela a painter. He grew up with his one year older brother Bernhard, who became a trick cameraman, in the Berlin-Tiergarten district. When he was nine years old in 1952, the family moved to Frankfurt for professional reasons. There he went to the Goethe-Gymnasium for four years. In 1956, his father was appointed press officer in Munich for Constantin Film Distribution and his second brother, Alexander, was born. In Munich Götz Weidner attended the Klenze grammar school. His art teacher recognized his skills and let him draw theater sets and stage sets. Götz Weidner completed an internship at Bavaria Film in 1961 and then wanted to attend the art academy to become a theater set designer. But he stayed with Bavaria and trained as a production designer from 1962 to 1966. In 1966, together with Werner Achmann, under the direction of Rolf Zehetbauer and the trick master Theo Nischwitz, he was involved in the production of the special effects for the TV series Raumpatrouille - The fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship . He has been working as a freelance film architect since 1970.
Several television and cinema works followed, including Wallenstein based on Golo Mann (directed by Franz Peter Wirth , 1978), Peter Zadek's Die wild fifties (1982/83), The Neverending Story Part I (directed by Wolfgang Petersen , 1982 to 1984), The Neverending Story II - In Search of Fantasia (Director: George Miller , 1988/89) and Schtonk! (Directed by Helmut Dietl , 1992), Bernhard Sinkels Der Kinoerzähler (1992) and Dominik Grafs Die Sieger (1994). After Das Boot (directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 1980/1982), the American production U-571 (directed by Jonathan Mostow ) was his second submarine film, for which he had a considerably larger budget. The third submarine film in which Weidner was involved was made in 2000 with Caught in Icy Depths (directed by James Keach) in Malta.
For Heinrich Breloer's three-part series Die Manns - A Century Novel (2001), he recreated Thomas Mann's Munich villa, which was destroyed in the war, true to detail on the grounds of the Bavaria Filmstudios. In 2004/2005, Speer and Er started working again with Breloer. The equipment for the multi-part TV series Das Wunder von Lengede (directed by Kaspar Heidelbach ) won him the Bavarian TV Prize in 2004. In 2006, Götz Weidner worked with director Kaspar Heidelbach on Der Untergang der Pamir , the film adaptation of the sinking of a sailing training ship. In 2007 he worked with Heinrich Breloer on the filming of Buddenbrooks . In 2008, again with Kaspar Heidelbach, the movie Berlin 36 about the Jewish high jumper Gretl Bergmann was made. In 2016 the film Egon Schiele - Death and the Maiden was made about the short life of one of the most important artists of the Vienna Secession (directed by Dieter Berner) in Austria. In 2019, director Joseph Vilsmaier brought him out of retirement as a set designer for Der Boandlkramer and Eternal Love .
Awards
- 1988: ACE Award San Diego for Sins of the Fathers (Fathers and Sons)
- 1990: German Film Prize for The Neverending Story II , awarded to the German team (1990)
- 2002: German television award for Die Manns
- 2004: Bavarian TV Prize for The Miracle of Lengede
- 2005: Nominated for the German Television Prize for Speer and Er
- 2008: Bavarian Film Prize for Buddenbrooks
Filmography
- 1961/2: Hotel Victoria (TV series)
- 1962: string quartet (TV)
- 1963: Funkstreife Isar 12 (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 1963: Nutcracker - Ballet (TV)
- 1963: Lady Lobster's groom (TV)
- 1964: Measure for measure (two kinds of measures) (TV)
- 1964: The guests of Felix Hechinger (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1964: The strange methods of FJ Wanninger (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 1964: Raumpatrouille Orion - The fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1965: Peter Weck Show (TV)
- 1965: Christina's journey home (TV)
- 1965: Mike Molto magazine (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1965: Blue Light (TV)
- 1965: The houses of Mr. Sartorius (TV)
- 1966: Count Yoster does the honors (TV-5 episodes)
- 1966: Jeanne or the Lark (TV)
- 1966: The Miser (TV)
- 1966: Women's School (TV)
- 1966: Don Carlos (TV)
- 1966: Chiarevalle is discovered (TV)
- 1967: Antonius and Cleopatra (TV)
- 1967: Escape with no way out (TV three-part)
- 1967: 7 weeks on the ice (Nobile) (TV)
- 1967: Good evening (TV)
- 1967: Parlez-moi d'amour (Greco) (TV)
- 1967: People (TV)
- 1968: Wälsungenblut (cinema)
- 1968: Tonight Anneliese Rothenberger (TV)
- 1968: Twist or Die (TV)
- 1968: The Marquise de Brinvilliers (TV two-part)
- 1969: The level crossing (TV)
- 1969: The Visit (TV)
- 1969: Al Capone in the German Forest (TV)
- 1969: The City Preachers (TV)
- 1969: Jürgen von Manger: Witnesses to History (TV)
- 1969: betrayed and sold (TV two-part)
- 1970: Cabaret (cinema)
- 1970: Operation Valkyrie (TV two-part)
- 1970: Lerchenpark (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1970: The Turk in Italy (TV)
- 1970: Four versus the Bank of England (animation) (TV)
- 1971: The Red Chapel (TV seven divider)
- 1971: A Mr. Schmidt (TV)
- 1972: Alexander Zwo (TV six-part)
- 1972: Count Yoster does the honors (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1973: Count Yoster does the honors (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1973: The Little Doctor (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1974: The Odessa File (Cinema)
- 1974: hardness 10 (TV five-part series)
- 1974: Spiel mit Dreie (TV-Sketche, 3 episodes)
- 1975/1976: Derrick (TV series, 12 episodes)
- 1976: partner wanted (TV eight-part)
- 1976: Jörg Preda reports (TV six-part)
- 1976: A Quite Ordinary Story (TV)
- 1976: Hygiene in the hospital (cartoon)
- 1977: Wallenstein (TV four-part series)
- 1977: Jauche and Levkojen (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1978/79: Nowhere is Poenichen (TV multi-part)
- 1979: Bestiary (TV)
- 1980/81: Das Boot (cinema)
- 1981: Doctor Faustus (cinema)
- 1982: The lieutenant and his judge (TV two-part)
- 1982: Trip to Father (TV five-part)
- 1982: The Wild Fifties (Hurray, we're still alive) (Cinema)
- 1983/84: The Neverending Story I (cinema)
- 1984: Fathers and Sons (TV four-part series)
- 1985: Schimanski Tatorte (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1985/86: The Life of Hemingway (TV four-part)
- 1987: Mission Eureka (TV six-part)
- 1988/89: The Neverending Story II - In Search of Fantasias (Cinema)
- 1990: Go Trabi Go (cinema)
- 1990: Café Europa (cinema)
- 1991: Schtonk! (Movie theater)
- 1992: The cinema narrator (cinema)
- 1992: The Sahara Project (TV six-part)
- 1993: The winners (cinema)
- 1994: Der Fahnder (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1994: Police call 110: 1A Landeier (TV)
- 1995: Daily: That's Life - The Wagenfelds (TV series)
- 1996: Weekly: The Inseparable (TV Series)
- 1996: The Dream of Love (TV)
- 1997: Police call 110: Daisy (TV)
- 1997/98: U-571 (cinema)
- 1998: The King of St. Pauli (TV series 6 episodes)
- 1998/99: The Manns - A novel of the century (TV three-part)
- 2000: Caught in Icy Depths (Submerged) (TV)
- 2001: The Crystal Princess (TV)
- 2002/3: The miracle of Lengede (TV two-part)
- 2003: Raumpatrouille Orion - fall back into the cinema (cinema)
- 2004/5: Speer and He (TV three-part)
- 2006: The sinking of the Pamirs (TV two-part)
- 2007/8: Buddenbrooks (cinema) (TV)
- 2009: Berlin 36 (cinema)
- 2011: residual risk (TV)
- 2012: The Black Brothers (preparation)
- 2016: Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (cinema)
- 2018: Das Boot continued for Sky (TV)
- 2018: Reconstruction of good-for-nothing (cinema)
- 2019: The Boandlkramer and Eternal Love (cinema)
Web links
- Götz Weidner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Götz Weidner at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weidner, Götz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German production designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |