Günther Hörmann
Günther Hörmann (born April 16, 1940 in Ebingen ) is a German film director and cameraman .
Life
The son of a bank employee attended the local secondary school until 1955 and then trained as a photographer. After attending a language and business school in Stuttgart, he worked in a printing and graphics institute.
From 1961 he studied at the Ulm School of Design , where he switched to the newly founded film class after two semesters. Here he met Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge .
After a few early short film documentaries, he drew attention to himself as a director with the minute documentary We were prepared to go on strike at the film festivals in Oberhausen and Mannheim for Thursday morning at six . From 1967 to 1968 he worked as an assistant at the Ulm Institute for Film Design, in 1968 he became one of the directors of the institute.
As a director, he made other documentaries about workers' strikes and student unrest and acted as a cameraman for several feature films, including The Artists in the Big Top: At a Glance . Later he also showed portraits of individual personalities and filmed repeatedly in his hometown. 1973 to 1986 Hörmann was a research assistant at the Chamber of Labor at the University of Bremen . Afterwards he became scientific director of the research and development institute film / television and in autumn 1988 professor for film at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design . From 1994 to 2010 he was director of the Institute for Media Research and Media Development Ulm (IMM).
His son André, born in 1975, is also a filmmaker.
Filmography
- 1964: Portrait of a Probation (camera)
- 1964: Views of a City (director)
- 1967: We were prepared to go on strike for Thursday morning at six (Director)
- 1967: disturbance of the peace (camera, co-director)
- 1968: The artists in the big top: at a loss (camera)
- 1970: We install 3 × 27 Millia. Dollars in an assault butcher (camera)
- 1970: A doctor from Halberstadt (camera)
- 1970: The indomitable Leni Peickert (camera)
- 1972: Strike of the Metalworkers 1971 (Director)
- 1972: First comes the production, then the man (director)
- 1974: In danger and greatest need, the middle way brings death (camera)
- 1977: Learning without coercion - An attempt to do school differently (director and screenplay)
- 1978: ... only worth half (camera, director and screenplay)
- 1978: Germany in autumn (camera)
- 1979: A union from within (co-director; 5 episodes)
- 1979: The Patriot (camera)
- 1979: I Would Never Leave Here (Co-Director)
- 1980: Film about Albstadt-Ebingen (director)
- 1982: The ordinary life of the people from A. (camera, direction and screenplay)
- 1982: We once sat in a boat, the captain lives, the crew dead (camera, director and script)
- 1985: The downfall of AG Weser (director)
- 1986: Fall through dreams-André Heller's fire pictures at the Reichstag in Berlin (director)
- 1988: Born in 1899 Alfred Sohn-Rethel (director)
- 1988: The Klöcknerhütte in September (director)
- 1991: As the only surviving officer of his regiment (director)
- 1993: Farewell to the Deutschlandlied (co-director)
- 1994: A car is a caar (Director)
- 1999: Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (director)
- 2003: Design for Millions (co-director)
Works
- 1995: perception and concept. The work of the Institute for Film Design Ulm 1962–1995 (Ed.)
- 2001: Media Toolbox. An interactive textbook for film and media designers (co-author)
- 2003: The Ulm School of Design - beginnings of a project of unyielding modernity (co-author)
Awards
- 1967: Curt Oertel Medal at the Mannheim Film Festival for We were prepared to go on strike at six on Thursday morning as the best German documentary film
- 1973: Film journalists' award for First comes production, then people
- 1985: Golden Dove at the Leipzig Film Festival for Der Untergang der AG Weser
- 1985: Special prize of the jury at the 3rd European Environmental Festival in Dortmund and prize of the European Parliament for the downfall of the AG Weser
Individual evidence
Web links
- Günther Hörmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Günther Hörmann at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hörmann, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebingen |