Georg Brintrup

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Georg Brintrup (born October 25, 1950 in Münster ) is a German filmmaker and screenwriter. His better-known works include literary and musical film essays .

life and work

Before he journalism, communication sciences and Romance studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University studied Munster, Brintrup turned end of the 1960s and early 1970s years underground films . Some of these films were shown as part of productions at the Münster City Theater.

From 1973 he studied film and media studies at the ISOP in Rome. His thesis was the short film Meine Wunder , which was shown at the 1978 International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. In 1975 he made his first long film Rules of the Game for an Anabaptist film, which has a recurring principle as its theme: If a peaceful political or social movement is suppressed, this leads to radicalism, if the movement is even driven into spiritual isolation, fanaticism and terrorism arise. The film was shown in 1977 at the Film International Rotterdam and in the Forum of Young German Films at the 27th International Film Festival in Berlin.

In 1978 he wrote his first “audio film” for SWF Baden-Baden: “Alone with my magic word”. This form of radio play is in the tradition of Max Ophüls' “audio films” and has nothing to do with today's usual connotation of this form of radio play, audio description . Sounds, tones, music and language are treated and used equally alongside one another. So far, Brintrup has written a total of 30 “audio films” for various radio stations in Germany.

In 1979 he shot Ich räum auf , based on the eponymous pamphlet by the expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler , his first film essay for television. The film is about the exploitation and corruption of aesthetic production.

With the film Poemi Asolani he made his first music film in 1985, which was also referred to as a “musical without song” and received several awards. In the 1990s and 2000s he continuously developed the form of the music film essay. As with the audio films, images, gestures, music, language and sounds were treated and used equally alongside one another. Brintrup's style, his “musical eyes” and “seeing ears”, is different from other film essayists.

In the 1990s , in addition to the Italian music films Raggio di Sole and Luna Rossa, he shot an extensive music trilogy in Brazil. The first of these films, Symphonia Colonialis , is about the making of the largely unknown Brazilian baroque music. In the second film, O Trem Caipira , not a word is spoken. “Purely Brazilian” music, from Itiberê da Cunha to Heitor Villa-Lobos to Radamés Gnattali , comments on images from everyday Brazilian life and reveals its own acoustic origins. The third film in the trilogy, Drummers and Gods , penetrates the musical psyche of the Brazilian. A blind man and a street boy roam the city of Salvador (Bahia) in search of the primal sound.

Most recently, Brintrup made the music films Palestrina - Prince of Music and Santini's Network , in which early music plays a special role and in which polyphony and the interplay of individual, self-contained voices are depicted, like planets that are self-sufficient in themselves , still have to follow a higher order of the universe.

Brintrup is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography (selection)

B = script, R = direction, P = production

actor

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1978: Alone with my magic word
  • 1980: I die alive and breathe again in the picture
  • 1982: Where does my life go?
  • 1986: pauses in silence
  • 1988: Until I become a ghost with ghosts
  • 1990: I'm not scared - I'm scared
  • 1991: The Tragedy Accepted
  • 1992: Nature cannot be deprived of the veil
  • 1993: Oxum owns the whole town
  • 1994: Detached from all roots
  • 1994: Bilingual love
  • 1995: where the words end
  • 1995: Those who fail because of their success
  • 1996: Amor Mundi
  • 1997: The love of the living
  • 1998: The Rediscovery of America
  • 1999: I guess I'm crazy
  • 1999: The Power of Mother Language
  • 2000: Take the sting out of life
  • 2001: Traces create dreams
  • 2004: Island of the sleeping giants
  • 2005: Keeping the unrest in the heart awake

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program booklet Städtische Bühnen Münster for Peter Terson's Zicke-Zacke , premiere April 16, 1970.
  2. ^ New German Films 76/77 in the 7th International Forum of New Films, Berlin
  3. ↑ Schnitzler's “Fräulein Else” and the Naked Truth: Novelle, film versions ... by Alexandra Tacke, p. 69, Böhlau Cologne, 2016, ISBN 3-412-22497-9
  4. ↑ Historical dictionary of rhetoric term “Hörfilm”, Hrsb. by Gert Ueding. Volume 3 Eup-Hör (page 1571-72), ISBN 978-3-484-68100-2
  5. ↑ Monika M. Hielscher in MEDIUM, 10th year 1980, issue 5
  6. ^ Prix ​​Italia 1985 , Cagliari, communicato stampa
  7. ↑ see also: Alberto Farassino in La Repubblica of July 31, 1986
  8. ↑ Jörg Bartel: “Director with seeing ears - The exceptional filmmaker Georg Brintrup” in Neue Rheinische Zeitung of October 22, 2010
  9. ^ Giuseppe Fantasia: “Palestrina princeps musicae” in Dillinger - La piazza degli outsider from March 18, 2010
  10. ↑ Virgilio Celletti: “Palestrina dopo 500 anni diventa una star del cinema” in Avvenire on April 12, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Brintrup, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster