Gaudenz Meili

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Gaudenz Meili

Gaudenz Meili (born July 22, 1937 in Chur ) is a Swiss film director, producer and screenwriter.

Life

Born in Chur (Canton of Graubünden ) in 1937 , Gaudenz Meili grew up in Trogen (Canton of Appenzell AR ) and attended the canton school there. After graduating with a commercial diploma, he moved to Zurich , where he began studying art at the University of Zurich , which he supplemented with acting lessons and a traineeship as an assistant director to Oskar Wolderlin at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

After the death of his mentor, he switched from theater to the film industry in 1961 and made cultural reports and extensive documentaries on Swiss personalities such as Henry Dunant , Karl Stauffer-Bern , Gottlieb Duttweiler , Alois Carigiet and Alex Sadkowsky for Swiss television (DRS) .

As a young talent at ZDF , Meili got the opportunity in 1972 to direct the film Der Kopflose Falke based on Truman Capote's novella The Headless Falk for “ Das kleine Fernsehspiel ” with recordings in New York and in Studio Hamburg , after having previously worked for the same station We Geometer ... , the documentary about the works of art by the mentally ill, had created.

By winning the SF-DRS competition "Filming epic Swiss literature", Gaudenz Meili was able to produce the feature film Der Stumme based on the novel by Otto F. Walter in 1976 . The film, with international cast by Hanna Schygulla and Wolf Kaiser , received more attention in Europe than in Switzerland. Gaudenz Meili was invited as a guest director to television in the former GDR ( Deutscher Fernsehfunk ), where he staged the television film Die arge Legende vom Zanzenen Galgenstrick based on the novel of the same name by Franz Werfel in 1977 .

As a result, Meili distanced himself more and more from the Swiss film scene of the 1970s and 1980s, which focused on social criticism, and from the mid-1980s turned more towards the art film genre, in which he worked through artists such as Giovanni Segantini , Markus Raetz , Johann Heinrich Füssli and the Swiss curator Harald Szeemann shot and produced internationally shown art films. A synthesis of image and music was always important to him. Similar to his role model Stanley Kubrick , he tried to give the picture a dramatic effect by using adequate and carefully selected music.

Winning the 1989 Grand Prix for Der Neapelfries ( Markus Raetz ) at the world's most important art film festival , the Festival international du film sur l'Art (FIFA) in Montréal , Canada , was the highlight of Meili's art filmography.

Gaudenz Meili was married to Regina Meili-Egli (1937–2012), is the father of three sons and now lives in Tuscany, where he is dedicated to the production of olive oil and wine.

Filmography (selection)

Various documentaries and cultural reports for Swiss television until 1970.

Awards

  • 1965 - Silver Pharaoh Award for Matterhorn Story , Alexandria
  • 1972 - 1st prize at the International Industrial Film Festival for commissioned film Mannesmann tubes , Barcelona
  • 1976 - Federal Department of the Interior quality award for the dumb , Bern
  • 1981 - Diploma Travel & Sports Film Festival for advertising film St. Moritz , London
  • 1983 - 1st prize in the Wirtschaftsfilmtage category video for commissioned films, JVC video equipment , Graz
  • 1989 - Grand Prix 7e Festival international du film sur l'Art 1989 for The Naples Frieze , Montréal
  • 1989 - Golden Unicorn for The Naples Frieze as the best experimental film at the Alpinale , Bludenz
  • 1989 - Diploma & Mention Spéciale for The Naples Frieze at the Festival international du film sur l'art Fifart, Lausanne
  • 1991 - Giovanni Segantini competition entry at the 9th Festival international du film sur l'Art , Montréal
  • 1995 - Work semester in England for the Zug cultural foundation Landis & Gyr , London

DVDs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the competition “Epic Swiss Literature”. Swiss television (press release; PDF; 56 kB)
  2. ↑ Martin Schlappner : Are literary adaptations worse films? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 8, 1976, No. 236, p. 77
  3. ↑ July 14, 1965: Direct broadcast of a Matterhorn ascent. Swiss television, July 20, 1965 (press release; PDF; 52 kB)
  4. ^ Bitter Victory: The Matterhorn Story (1965). Swiss television, March 13, 2015 (video streaming), accessed on October 2, 2016
  5. ↑ Wehr surveyors want our wages. In: Der Spiegel . No. 40, September 30, 1969
  6. ↑ The dumb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ↑ os Garimpeiros in Swissbib
  8. ↑ Georges Ammann: On the 100th anniversary of the death (September 18, 1899) of Giovanni Segantini. Longing for an overall view of being. In: information and accents. 2/99, pp. 28–30 (archived on the website of the University of Education Zurich ; PDF; 131 kB)
  9. ↑ Harald Szeemann in context screenings. Temporary enchantment by Gaudenz Meili e Hans-Joachim Müller. ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Istituto Svizzero di Roma , November 8th 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.istitutosvizzero.it
  10. ↑ Georges Waser, “Genie und Wahn” and the inner eye - Gaudenz Meili's homage to JH Füssli, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12./13. April 1997, no.84.
  11. ↑ Film funding. Encouragement du cinéma. In: Ciné-Bulletin . No. 18, March 1977, p. 1 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
  12. ↑ Festival prices. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ciné-Bulletin. No. 163, April 1989, p. 4 (PDF; 7.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cinebulletin.ch
  13. ^ Lyne Crevier: Le festival des géants. In: Revue d'art contemporain ETC. No. 8, 1989, pp. 70–71 (PDF; 408 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Meili, Gaudenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur