Hans W. Geißendörfer

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Hans W. Geißendörfer (2015)

Hans Wilhelm Max Geißendörfer (born April 6, 1941 in Augsburg as Wilhelm Max Geißendörfer ) is a German director , author and film producer .

Life

Geißendörfer grew up as the child of a pastor's family in Neustadt an der Aisch . His father was a military chaplain. From 1962 to 1967 he studied German , drama , psychology and African languages . In 1971 he founded the film publishing house of the authors with other auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema . His film The Glass Cell was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film in 1979 .

In 1982 Geißendörfer founded his own production company, Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH , or gff GmbH for short . From 1985 to 2019 she produced the first German permanent series Lindenstrasse in cooperation with WDR , which Geißendörfer also directed at times. He was inspired for this series by his childhood in an apartment building in Neustadt an der Aisch.

In 2003 Geißendörfer was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . In 2011 he was one of the co-founders of the video-on-demand portal alleskino.de, which aims to show all German cinema productions.

Geißendörfer always wears a woolen hat in public. According to his own testimony, after a severe sinus catarrh in his childhood, he was advised by a doctor to always wear a head covering. The current cap was inspired by the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , in which the main actor Jack Nicholson wears a similar model.

Hana and Hans Geißendörfer

The director Hana Geißendörfer is his daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1970: Film tape in silver (junior director) for Jonathan
  • 1970: Preis der 15 (German film critics) for Jonathan as best debut
  • 1976: Silver film tape for Sternsteinhof
  • 1978: Film tape in gold for The Glass Cell
  • 1979: Oscar nomination for The Glass Cell
  • 1982: Silver film tape for The Magic Mountain
  • 1988: Bambi for Lindenstrasse
  • 1998: Golden Camera for Lindenstrasse
  • 2001: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Lindenstrasse
  • 2005: Compass needle of the gay network
  • 2005: DVD Champion in the Lifetime Achievement Award category for his life's work
  • 2013: Integration letter from the Bavarian state government
  • 2015: Max Ophüls Prize - honorary award for services to young German-language film
  • 2015: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

Commons : Hans W. Geißendörfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Mack: Career of a Pastor's Daughter. deutschlandradiokultur.de, October 26, 2005, accessed on October 26, 2014
  2. ↑ Hans W. Geißendörfer's biography in Who's Who .
  3. ↑ About us on alleskino.de
  4. ↑ The man behind Lindenstrasse on dradio.de
  5. ↑ gff - geissendörfer film and television production - Tatort Dortmund: weightless. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  6. ^ Honorary laureate Hans W. Geißendörfer. In: max-ophuels-preis.de. Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis, archived from the original on February 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 : "The fourth honorary award for services to young German-language film goes to director and producer Hans W. Geißendörfer."
  7. ↑ Awarded on November 12, 2015 in Düsseldorf - Lindenstrasse - ARD - Das Erste. In: www1.wdr.de. November 12, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Geißendörfer, Hans W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geißendörfer, Hans Wilhelm; Geißendörfer, Wilhelm Max (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg