Gerhard Schmidt (producer)

Gerhard Schmidt (2019) with the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Gerhard Schmidt (full name: Gerhard Ernst Schmidt) (born January 7, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German film producer , screenwriter and director .

Live and act

Gerhard Schmidt studied law , oriental languages and sociology in Bonn and Cologne . He and Hansjürgen Hilgert took part in the Bonn stage for sensual perception . The films they produced together, Escape and Dawn , were given the title “Valuable”.

In 1964, Schmidt and Hilgert received, in collaboration with Gerd Hergen Lübben and Georg Müller-Egert for their third short film, From the life of Georg Wenzel , as part of the Mannheimer XIII. International Film Week the Federal Film Award.

Gerhard Schmidt founded various film productions such as the Gerhard Schmidt Scripts & Films Produktion (Cologne) as well as the Producers' Association of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Academy for Television . He ran a production company founded in 1962 from 1964 together with Hans Hermann Köper under the name Köper + Schmidt, books and films . After Köper's death in 1977 he continued to run the company on his own before founding Cologne (for German-language programs) and Gemini (for international programs and cinema projects) together with his wife Micha Terjung in 1988.

Schmidt was also active as a journalist. Together with the later WDR radio director Wolfgang Schmitz, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Underground, which was launched in 1968 by the publishing duo Bärmeier & Nikel . In 1974 he and Köper published two Robinzak books in addition to the youth program of the same name in the afternoon program of ZDF, of which they were also authors.

Gerhard Schmidt is also committed to media policy issues in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Filmography (selection)

• 1960: Olympic splinters
• 1961: escape
• 1963: dawn
• 1964: From the life of Georg Wenzel
• 1975: Island of the Crabs
• 1984: Is what, Chancellor?
• 1990: Commissioner Klefisch - official offense
• 1996: My friend Joe
• 2009: Günter Wallraff: Black on White
• 2011: One day in Duisburg - Love Parade death trap
• 2011: One day in Kunduz - The fatal order
• 2015: Domian - Interview with Death
• 2017: not without us!

Awards

• Adolf Grimme Prize 1971 together with Hans Hermann Köper for directing Express ( ZDF broadcast on September 4, 1970).
• In 2019 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Web links

• Gerhard Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gerhard Schmidt at filmportal.de
• Short biography of Gerhard Schmidt on koeln-im-film.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schmidt, Gerhard Ernst, Cologne. Retrieved September 20, 2017 . 
2. ↑ https://www.kompany.de/p/de/hrb63693%20k%C3%B6ln  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Federal Film Prize to Bonn. Team Hilgert-Schmidt received a cultural film award ; in: Bonner Rundschau, October 14, 1964.
4. ↑ Cf. in the "Bundesarchiv" : short film from the life of Georg Wenzel (1964)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Cologne in Film: Interview with Gerhard Schmidt, film producer , January 2008
6. ↑ The Robinzak -Bände in the catalog of the German National Library
7. ↑ NOT WITHOUT US! Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
8. ↑ 14 citizens awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia, 23 August 2019, accessed on 26 August 2019 .