Gernot Schley

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Gernot Schley (born May 13, 1937 in Cosel , Upper Silesia , † October 29, 2006 in Gauting ) was a German director , screenwriter and non-fiction writer focusing on Africa, South America and the indigenous peoples living there and their threat.

Life

Gernot Schley grew up in Cosel / Upper Silesia and in Essen. He studied in Freiburg / Brsg. and Berlin. He completed his studies in German , philosophy , history and theater studies with a dissertation on Gerhart Hauptmann and the Free Stage in Berlin. He then began his professional career as a journalist , mainly at WAZ. After a short time he turned to documentary film and after a few years at Tellux-Film founded his own production company Projektfilm in Munich. He has made over a hundred documentaries and feature films as a director and screenwriter, especially for the broadcasters ZDF , BR and WDR .

Schley also wrote non-fiction books about the life of indigenous peoples and about development aid in Africa and Latin America.

Awards

In 1983, Gernot Schley received the 2nd prize of the media price development policy of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development for the WDR production Encounters in M'Kondedzi - pupils and helpers help on a school farm in Mozambique

He also received the International Environment Prize Prague (1992) and the Ambient Incontri Sacile Special Prize (1996).

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Non-fiction

  • Gernot Schley: The Free Stage in Berlin. The forerunner of the Volksbühne movement. A contribution to the history of theater in Germany. Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1967.
  • Winfried Hoffer and Gernot Schley: The Third World begins with us. Essays, interviews and results from the ZDF television series . Peter Hammer Verlag GmbH, 1982, ISBN 978-3-87294-197-8 .
  • Gernot Schley: Indians: The dream of the millennium of the indigenous peoples . Horlemann Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89502-160-2 .
  • Gernot Schley: In the shadow of the sacred plant: Bolivia's coca farmers accuse . Horlemann Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-927905-67-2 .
  • Gernot Schley: Zuruaha : Stories from the Rainforest . Horlemann Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89502-219-7 .

Films and television (selection)

A nine-part series by Gernot Schley about Indians of South America was shown on WDR in 2002:

  1. The Inuit - people in ice and rock
  2. The Katukina - people of panthers
  3. The Waiapi - people of the jungle
  4. The Warao - people of strong women
  5. The Aymara - people of the high Andes
  6. The Shuar - headhunters in the rainforest
  7. The Shipibo - people of artists
  8. The Chinchero - descendants of the Inca
  9. The Sacambaya people in the canyon

Some films take up the topic of Brazil

  • Fight for survival in the Amazon (45 min.)
  • The other Brazil
    1. The knowledge of the indigenous people
    2. The children, games, dreams
    3. Drovers in the Garden of Eden
  • Sun that means death - the drought of the century in northeastern Brazil
  • Favelas in Rio de Janeiro - settlements of hope
  • Living in a Favela - The Children of Rocinha

Other films (selection)

  • The power of the Warao women - How an Indian people survived (also: The Warao - people of strong women ). TV documentary, Bayerischer Rundfunk & Adveniat 1997. 44 min., Director & script: Gernot Schley.
  • In the forests of the Zuruaha Indians - The priest and the unknown people . TV documentary, 2005
  • Every second man gets through - manhunt on the Mexican border . Bayerischer Rundfunk 1998, 44 min., Written and directed by Gernot Schley
  • Struggle for survival in Argentina Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2003, 44 min., Director: Gernot Schley, script: Gernot Schley and Hubert Schöne.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Schley at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 15, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmz.de
  3. ↑ http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~romania/pg/lekt/brasilvideo.html
  4. ↑ http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=283855749706217
personal data
SURNAME Schley, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cosel , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2006
Place of death Gauting