Günter Reisch

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Günter Julius Hermann Reisch (born November 24, 1927 in Berlin ; † February 24, 2014 there ) was a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

The son of the master baker Julius Reisch and the clerk Erna Reisch, née Queißer, grew up in Potsdam since 1934 , where he attended secondary school and was drafted shortly before the end of the war. On April 20, 1944, at the age of 16, he joined the NSDAP .

After his release from American captivity , he was already involved in the development and management of the theater ensemble in the Antifa Youth Committee and in the FDJ in Potsdam in autumn 1945 . After graduating from high school, he took acting lessons with Werner Kepich and, from 1947, trained as a director at DEFA's young talent studio . He became a member of the SED .

After its audit in March 1948, the twenty-year-old assistant director was Gerhard Lamprecht in quartet Fifth . In 1950 Reisch worked for the first time on Der Rat der Götter with Kurt Maetzig , to whom he assisted in films such as Ernst Thälmann - son of his class and Ernst Thälmann - leader of his class and with whom he worked in 1958 on Das Lied der Sailors .

In 1955 he directed his first feature film, Young Vegetables . Since 1956 he has also taught at the Babelsberg Film School . He also worked as a theater director and in 1958 directed the stage version of Tolstoy's War and Peace at the Rostock Volkstheater .

In his films, for which he mostly co-wrote the script, he dealt with the bourgeois tendencies of everyday life in the GDR. His Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz (1967) showed that a marriage swindler could also be successful under socialism. In his Anton the Magician (1977) Ulrich Thein embodied a worker who enriches himself.

In addition, there are Reisch's films in which he dealt with historical topics. From 1964 to 1965 he wrote his Liebknecht biography As long as life is in me , which was published in 1972 in spite of everything! found its continuation. In 1979 he shot The Fiancee with Jutta Wachowiak as an imprisoned communist during the Nazi era.

From 1967 to 1988 he was Vice President of the Association of Film and Television Creators of the GDR, in 1983 he became a full member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR . He was also a member of the DEFA Artistic Council and a mentor at the Film School in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Reisch distinguished himself primarily as a film educator. He taught at the HFF Konrad Wolf , the University of Television and Film Munich , the University of Theater and Music Graz , the Italian University in Bolzano and the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . In addition, he taught for four years at the film class at the University of Kassel .

From 1997 to 2002 he taught as a lecturer at the Film Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar , and at the beginning of 2003 he was appointed honorary professor for film design in the new media. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and the German Film Academy . In November 2013 he was honored by the DEFA Foundation for his life's work as a film artist.

Reisch was married to the academic assistant at the Academy of Arts Beate Reisch in 1970. He was the father of two girls from his first marriage and two boys from his second marriage.

He was buried on March 7, 2014 in the French cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrun Walks: Günter Reisch. In: Homepage Günter Reisch. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; accessed on August 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Reisch, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisch, Günter Julius Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2014
Place of death Berlin