Günter Jordan

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Günter Jordan (born January 17, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German documentary filmmaker and author .

Life

Günter Jordan was born on January 17, 1941 in Leipzig. He studied Slavic Studies, History and Education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until 1963, after which he worked as a teacher. In 1966 he began a special degree in directing at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

From 1969 he worked as an assistant director and from 1974 as director and author of his own films in the DEFA studio for documentary films , of which he was a member until 1991. From 1976 to 1986 Günter Jordan was a member of the group Documentaries for Children . Several documentaries were made under his direction from 1972 to 2002. His film Scream once a week came among other things because of a song by the Pankow group with the line “Always ask for permission, there's nothing more to dare to do, who wants to be on a leash, I want to think for myself, see for yourself” n. ”and was only premiered in October 1989.

In 1990 Günter Jordan received his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin ( Dissertation A , "DEFA Wochenschau and Documentary 1946–1949. New German film in post-war society between the foundations and changes in self-image, function and shape"). In addition to writing his own books, he published articles in various newspapers and magazines. From 1982 to 1988 he was a board member of the Association of Film and Television Workers of the GDR . Günter Jordan has been working as a freelance filmmaker and film historian since 1992. In addition, from 1990 to 1993 he was a lecturer at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg (now Babelsberg Film University) and in 1992 at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Günter Jordan lives in Kleinmachnow .

Filmography

  • 1973: Ewa - a girl from Witunia
  • 1977: Copihuito
  • 1977: The cranes fly in the wedge
  • 1978: Sailors in Berlin
  • 1980: Berlin - Auguststrasse
  • 1980: Children from Northeast - Berlin 1930
  • 1982: Scream once a week
  • 1986: DEFA: Roots
  • 1989: Max Hoelz
  • 1991: the lost time
  • 1991: The Measure - The Ship, Part 1
  • 1993: The Measure - Blue Hour, Part 2
  • 1993: The Measure - Last Hope, Part 3
  • 2002: Interview with a contemporary witness: Hugo Hermann

Fonts

  • 1987: Everyday life in documentary film. Memories of the early years 1946–1950 (ed.). Writings of the Association of Film and Television Workers of the GDR No. 24. Ag 528/7/87
  • 1994: "You see for yourself, you hear for yourself ...". DEFA from its beginnings until 1949 (with Christiane Mückenberger ). Hitzeroth 1994. ISBN 3-89398-144-6
  • 1996: black and white and color. DEFA documentary films 1946–1992 , (With Ralf Schenk ), Jovis-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-931321-51-7 and ISBN 978-3-931321-51-2 .
  • 2000: The Factory or The Alfred Lindemann Case . In: apropros Film 2000. DEFA Foundation and publishing house Das Neue Berlin. Berlin 2001.
  • 2001: Günter Jordan on the Walter Janka case - research on the years 1948/49 . In: apropos: Film 2001 - The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation. Bertz publishing house. ISBN 3-360-00955-X
  • 2002: Star of David and red triangle; The Jewish topic in DEFA newsreels and documentaries 1946-48 ; DEFA and Holocaust. Three documents and a PS In: apropos: Film 2002 - The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation. Bertz publishing house. ISBN 978-3-929470-23-9 (3-929470-23-3)
  • 2004: Treason or the Falk Harnack case . In: apropos: Film 2004 - The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation. Bertz publishing house. ISBN 3-929470-29-2
  • 2009: Film in the GDR , Filmmuseum Potsdam, ISBN 978-3-9812104-2-2 .
  • 2018: Unknown Ivens: Triumph, Damnation, Resurrection. Joris Ivens at DEFA and in the GDR 1948–1989 , Bertz and Fischer, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86505-407-4 .
  • 2018: Ms. "Eyewitness": Dr. Marion Keller . (With Claudia Köpke). Essay. In: Leuchtkraft 2018 . Journal of the DEFA Foundation 2018
  • 2019: Ella Ensink-Kleberg - "You learn everything" ; Eva Fritzsche - "Women don't make films!" ; Marion Keller - "Making a small contribution to democratization"; Renate Wekwerth - "We were very young" . In you. DEFA directors and their films . Cornelia Klauß / Ralf Schenk (ed.) 2018 DEFA Foundation / Bertz + Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86505-415-9

Awards

  • 1979: Children's film festival Goldener Spatz : Diploma for Copihuito
  • 1981: Children's Film Festival Goldener Spatz : Special prize for children from the northeast
  • 1987: Children's film festival Goldener Spatz : special prize for curriculum vitae

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Jordan at defa-stiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig