Georg Bense

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Georg Bense (born December 8, 1938 in Cologne ; † April 9, 2020 in Saarbrücken ) was a German filmmaker, author, director and cameraman. He lived with his wife in Saarbrücken and Pleubian ( Brittany ).

Life

Bense was the son of the philosopher Max Bense . He grew up in Jena , Boppard / Rhein and Stuttgart . From 1958 to 1961 he was the editor-in-chief of the student literary magazine “Abschnitte” in Stuttgart. He wrote short stories and film reviews and trained as a camera assistant in the "Atelier for Film and Graphics" in Bietigheim . Bense founded the FAT (film work team) together with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner at the Studium Generale at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

Bense has been an author, director and cameraman in Saarbrücken since 1963. He worked on numerous films for ARD ( Saarländischer Rundfunk ) ZDF and arte . Since 2001 he has worked for Saarbrücker Hefte , temporarily as its editor. Since 2003 he has worked for the Saarbrücker Zeitung as well as the culture magazine OPUS (Saarbrücken) and LESART Journal for Literature, Rangsdorf / Berlin. Bense died on April 9, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany as a result of an infection with the coronavirus .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1961: Song for Jonny. Music clip based on Bert Brecht / Kurt Weil .
  • 1962/1963: The fish flies steeply. Experimental film based on a text by Claus Bremer . As part of the FAT (film work team) together with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner, at the Studium Generale at the Technical University of Stuttgart .
  • 1962/1963: Now is the now - now. Experimental film based on a text by Max Bense .; As part of the FAT (film work team) together with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner, at the Studium Generale at the Technical University of Stuttgart .
  • 1962/1963: The sudden walk. Short film based on a story by Franz Kafka . As part of the FAT (film work team) together with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner, at the Studium Generale at the Technical University of Stuttgart .
  • 1962/1963: The step forward. Short film based on "The Dead of Spoon River" by Edgar Lee Masters . As part of the FAT (film work team) together with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner, at the Studium Generale at the Technical University of Stuttgart .
  • 1966: From the Bauhaus to industry. Portrait of Wilhelm Wagenfeld . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1967: Bordeaux - notation of a city. Film essay. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1968: Mexico City - Designing a Future. In collaboration with Hans Emmerling. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1968: For example Guanajuato. Color film messay about the silver city of Guanajuato. Text by Hans Emmerling. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1969: behind the screen. Cinema between art and box office. Subsequent issues of the ARD cinema magazine. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1970: The Saar meanders deep below. Film permutation in collaboration with Ludwig Harig . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1971: Merzig - Moscow - Mexico. The life story of Gustav Regulator . Commentary text by Günther Halkenhäuser. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1971: Gaudi under the stars and stripes. Experimental film report about a marching band's journey through various cities in the USA. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1973: Silent days in Luxembourg. In collaboration with the writer Roger Manderscheid . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1973: Jiri Kolar and Prague. In collaboration with Dietrich Mahlow . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1973: Language from light and time. Portrait of the photographer Robert Häusser . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1974: Strasbourg inside and outside. In collaboration with the writer Alfred Kern . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1974: Songs for not singing - Hannes Wader . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1974: Triptych with Claude Simon . Documentary in collaboration with Peter Brugger and Claude Simon. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1977: Songs to not sing along - Konstantin Wecker . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1978: Zombis Action! Or a moralist from Pittsburgh. Portrait of the film director George A. Romero . In cooperation with Hans Peter Cookingrath. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1980: The bitter victory of the samurai. Portrait Akira Kurozawa . In collaboration with Eva Bense ( ZDF )
  • 1980: Cowboys on the country road. Trucker films in USA. In collaboration with Hans Peter Cookingrath. (ZDF)
  • 1980: world views. The painter Hans Dahlem and the cosmogony of the volcanoes on Lanzarote. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1982: words made of stones. The poet Werner Reinert . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1982: King Hu . The Chinese director from Hong Kong and his Martial Art films. In collaboration with Hans Peter Cookingrath. ZDF.
  • 1982: On the dusty track. Bush pilots in the Australian outback. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1983: Tiger Claw strikes. Kung-Fu Film Factory in Hong Kong. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1984: Black Out. Lukas Kramer's night pictures . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1984: The Japanese can cry too. Portrait of the Japanese director Yoji Yamada . In collaboration with Eva Bense. (ZDF)
  • 1984: Museums of the World - The National Palace Museum in Taipei. In collaboration with Eva Bense. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1984: Luis Bunuel - atheist by the grace of God. In collaboration with Hans Peter Cookingrath. (ZDF)
  • 1985: Robert Redford at Sundance . In collaboration with Ron Holloway . (ZDF)
  • 1986: School of Vision. 40 years of Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1986: Small. Portrait of the painter and teacher Boris Kleint . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1987: The guitar makes dreams cry. The Spanish guitarist Pepe Romero . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1987: The heirs of violence. The South Korean movie. In collaboration with Eva Bense. (ZDF)
  • 1987: The cameraman Henri Alekan and his 1952 film “La Sarre plein Feux”. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1989: The quick word. Documentary about the work of ARD's France correspondent Ulrich Wickert in Paris on the occasion of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the revolution of 1789. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1990: A house for chairs. Frank Gehry and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil / Rhein. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1990: women in black. The Lorraine painter Emile Friant . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1990: Pictures to Hear. The art of video clips using Robin Gibb as an example . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1992: World Theater. The engraver Jacques Callot . (Saarländischer Rundfunk). The film was awarded the Franco-German Journalism Prize in 1993 in the "Culture" category.
  • 1994: Lorraine in the light. Film essay for a themed evening about Lorraine. (Saarländischer Rundfunk / arte)
  • 1997: Mont Cenis - way to Canossa. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1997: Music Cats. The cat in music (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 1999: The Long Road of the Acadians . Documentary film in collaboration with Eva Bense for the theme evening of the same name. (ZDF / arte)
  • 1999: accordion, accordion music portrait of the instrument. With the writer Annie Proulx . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 2000: The Chronicler of Bangkok. The Thai film director Prince Chatri. (ZDF / arte).
  • 2000: Tokyo Kids - Japan's youth in the intoxication of images. In collaboration with Eva Bense. (ZDF / arte)
  • 2000: The man who paints films. Canadian animator and Oscar winner Frédéric Back . (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 2002: Life - a carousel. The life and work of the director Max Ophüls . (Saarländischer Rundfunk / arte)
  • 2005: dying in the realm of lust. Eroticism in Japanese film. In collaboration with Eva Bense. (ZDF / arte)
  • 2005: Tracks in the ice. A film essay about Greenland. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 2006: The light of Skagen. History of the Danish painters' colony in Skagen in the 19th century.
  • 2007: Repeat experimental film about the action artist Alwin Alles and the photographer Frank Scheidt.
  • 2010: Terry Jo's monologue. Script based on a text by Max Bense

Other works and publications

  • 1997: Burning Heart. Screenplay for the cinema / television film of the same name about the life of the writer Gustav Regulator.
  • 2001: Tokyo Kids. Japan's youth in snapshots. Radio feature. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 2004: Winnetou's favorite song. Karl May as a composer. Radio feature. (Saarländischer Rundfunk)
  • 2011: "In here - out there - Max Ophüls in motion" Contribution to the book "Max Ophüls. Life is a dance ”. Edited by Kurt Bohr and Michael Beckert.
  • 2012: Moments on the Net. Exhibition of cell phone photographs in the Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace archive of the Saarland University.
  • 2014: The compulsion in my life or triptych for Gustav Regulator. The play premiered as a staged reading by the Saarbrücken State Theater .
  • 2014: Stations of exile. Photo collages on Gustav Regler's exile in the town hall of Merzig.
  • 2014: Patterns of possible film worlds. Book about the experimental films at the Stuttgart Technical University in the early sixties. In collaboration with Hansjörg Mayer and Rainer Wössner. Verlag Buchhandlung Walter König Cologne.
  • 2015: Presentation of samples of possible film worlds, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. WORD SENTENCE FILM The fish flies steeply, Now is the now - Now, The sudden walk, The monologue of Terry Jo. Screening of the films in the Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive at Saarland University and in the “eight and a half” cinema in Saarbrücken.
  • 2015: the past is always. Essay on Philippe Claudel and his novel “Brodeck's Report” in the volume “Transitions, Breaks, Approaches”, edited by Hermann Gätje and Sinkander Singh. Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive of the Saarland University.
  • 2016: Participation in the international exhibition Type Motion in Taipei with: The fish flies steeply; Now is now - now; Terry Jo's monologue.
  • 2017: Participation in the exhibition "The Smell of Ink" by the concrete artist and publisher Hansjörg Mayer at the ZKM Karlsruhe with the films "The fish flies steeply"; "Now is the now - now"; "Terry Jo's Monologue".
  • 2017: Word sentence film, byways to film language . In: Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur, No. 89, edited by Norbert Wehr, Rigodon-Verlag, Essen 2017. ISBN 978-3-924071-46-2 , ISSN  0174-2132 , pp. 125-132.
  • 2017: Faces of Lorraine, on the way on main and side roads , Geistkirch Verlag , Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-946036-73-9 (book with photos and articles about known and unknown places in Lorraine.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/georg-bense ; accessed on April 21, 2020
  2. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarbruecken/saarbruecken/saarbruecker-filmemacher-und-autor-georg-bense-gestorben_aid-50017669 ; accessed on April 11, 2020. https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/georg_bense_gestorben_corona_100.html ; accessed on April 11, 2020
  3. ^ Hans Bünte: History and stories of the station on the Saar, 50 years of Saarland radio . Ed .: Axel Buchholz and Fritz Raff. Verlag Herder GmbH, 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29818-9 , p. 117, 118, 147, 161, 172, 204, 231, 235, 263, 280, 300, 355 .
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Walter and Ludwig Harig (eds.): Sample possible worlds, an anthology for max bense, commemorative publication for his 60th birthday . Limes Verlag, 1970, p. 11-14 .
  5. ↑ Georg Bense: Georg Bense on his films about Ludwig Harig. Saarländischer Rundfunk, July 18, 2011, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Georg Bense et al. a .: Akira Kurosawa "You like japanese food?" In: Exhibition catalog of the German Film Museum Frankfurt am Main (Ed.): Kinematograph . tape 18/2003 . Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88799-067-6 , p. 62-65 .
  7. ↑ Ingo Kohlboom, Roberto Mann, Acadia: A French Dream in America, Four Centuries of History and Literature of the Acadians. XXV S. 8, Synchron, Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, 2005. DVD with the film "Akadier - Odyssey eines Volkes" by Eva and Georg Bense. ISBN 3-935025-54-8 .
  8. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Roth: The lust and death. November 4, 2005, accessed May 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Martin Buchhorn (ed.): Burning heart, diary of a flight, based on motifs from the novel "The Ear of Malchus" by Gustav Regulator . Gollenstein Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-930008-39-4 , p. 13-190, 221-223, 249, 263, .
  10. ↑ Kurt Bohr, Michael Beckert (ed.): Max Ophüls, Das Leben - Ein Reigen. 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813041-3-8 , pp. 26-38, 116 .
  11. ↑ Georg Bense, Hansjörg Meyer and Rainer Wössner, Patterns possible Filmworlds, with a text by Stefan Ripplinger, DVD with 6 films. Walther König Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-86335-456-5 .
  12. ^ Georg Bense: transitions, breaks, approximations, contributions to the history of literature in Saarland, Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg and Belgium . Ed .: Hermann Gätje and Sikander Singh. Universaar - Saarland University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86223-192-8 , p. 499-512 .
  13. ↑ View of the exhibition Hansjörg Mayer: The Smell of Ink. Accessed on May 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bense, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, author, director and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2020
Place of death Saarbrücken