Gordian Troeller

Gordian Troeller (born March 16, 1917 in Pierrevillers , Lorraine , † March 22, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a Luxembourg journalist , photographer and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Troeller attended primary school in France, then a high school in Luxembourg. Before graduating from high school, he left school and home to join the left in the Spanish Civil War .

After a brief but decisive experience in the Spanish civil war, he fled the Germans from Luxembourg to Portugal in 1940. There, with the support of the Allies, he set up a secret service which, among other things, set up an escape line. This made it possible for people persecuted by the Nazis to flee to Portugal from the areas occupied by the Germans. After the war he worked as a correspondent for various newspapers, mainly in Iran and the Middle East.

Since 1960 he and his French colleague Marie-Claude Deffarge have made a name for themselves in the Federal Republic of Germany through extraordinary text and photo reports in Stern magazine . In the late 1960s, he began filming alongside newspaper reports. From 1974 he had a permanent place in the ARD . In three series, which he produced exclusively for Radio Bremen (In the Name of Progress, Women of the World, Children of the World), he made 70 documentaries. His commitment was the analysis of the economic and socio-political structures that underlie the social injustices and thus the increasing impoverishment of large parts of the world population - whether in the highly developed industrial nations or in the so-called developing countries.

Awards

• 1984: Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze for In the Name of Progress: Bitter Sugar (together with Marie-Claude Deffarge)
• 1985: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for In the Name of Progress: The Seed of Progress or The End of Development (together with Elmar Hügler )
• 1987: German Critics' Prize for the Children of the World series
• 1992: Special honor at the Adolf Grimme Prize
• 2003: Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 'Prix d'honneur' for the complete works

Documentaries

• A war report from the Middle Ages - Yemen 1963
• Through bloody Kurdistan - Iraq 1964
• A forgotten genocide - Sudan 1967
• In besieged Sanaa - Yemeni Arab Republic | North Yemen 1967
• The Revolt of the Slaves - Oman 1969
• One year after the revolution - 1969
• The Revolutionary Church in Latin America - 1969
• The Middle Ages don't want to die - Yemen 1970
• Another Biafra - Sudan 1970
• In the land of 1001 oil rigs - Persian Gulf 1971
• The Sultanate of Oman - Oman 1971
• South Yemen, the Cuba of the Arab world - South Yemen 1972
• Algiers, capital of the revolutionaries - Algeria 1972
• Communists for 1000 years - South Yemen 1973
• The Wrath of the Corsicans - France 1973

In the name of progress

(together with Marie-Claude Deffarge and François Partant , legal ( page no longer available , search in web archives: download ))

1. The Curse of Dependence - Algeria 1974
2. The Devil's School - Togo 1974
3. To hell with school - Tanzania 1974
4. Poverty relief - Gabon 1975
5. Medicine into disaster - Gabon / Senegal 1975
6. The white revolution - Iran 1975
7. For better or for worse - France 1975
8. Europe's wine barrels overflow - 1975
9. No respect for sacred cows - Mexico 1976
10. Protest against Paris - Brittany Alsace-Lorraine 1976
11. No place for Indians - Canada 1976
12. Alone against the big ones - Eritrea 1977
13. Black Islam - Ivory Coast 1977
14. From Basques and Catalans - Spain 1977
15. Freedom forbidden - Somalia 1978
16. The Gray Panthers - USA 1978
17. The descendants of the Incas - Bolivia 1978
18. The Free of the North - Canada 1979
19. Factories for the Third World - Tunisia 1979
20. The Persian Dream - Iran 1979
21. Bitter Sugar - Brazil 1983
22. The seeds of progress or the end of development - USA 1984

Women of the world

1. Male rule unknown - Sumatra 1979
2. The benefits of polygamy - Togo 1979
3. Freedom under the veil - Iran 1980
4. In the service of the revolution - Eritrea 1980
5. The Curse of Virginity - Egypt , Italy 1980
6. Of breeding and fornication - Bolivia 1980
7. Farewell to laughter - Peru 1981
8. In the cage of freedom - Peru 1981
9. The Gentlemen - A Pamphlet Against Male Rule - France 1982
10. Witch uprising - Germany 1982
11. Betrayed and Sold - The Rise of the Right - USA 1982
12. In the name of love - France 1983

Children of the world

1. ... because theirs is the kingdom of heaven - Bolivia 1984
2. In the shadow of the gods - India 1984
3. Education for Holy War - Iran 1985
4. Schooled up and swept away - West Africa 1985
5. Because they know what they are doing - Bolivia 1985
6. The Forgotten - 1986
7. To each his own - USA 1986
8. The Tamed Savages - USA 1987
9. Enslaved and adored - Nepal 1987
10. The Forsaken - Honduras 1987
11. Made-to-measure offspring - Singapore 1987
12. Parrying is more than studying - Japan 1987
13. In the shadow of apartheid - Mozambique 1988
14. Of Muslims and Christians - 1988
15. The German countries - Turkey 1989
16. The descendants of Abraham - Israel - Palestine 1989
17. The Little Dragons - PRC 1989
18. Managed, betrayed, sold - Hungary 1990
19. The New Slaves - South Sudan 1990
20. Victims of the drug war - Bolivia 1990
21. Cheated out of the future - Vietnam 1991
22. Well taken care of in the shortage - Cuba 1991
23. Victims of Progress - Yemen 1991
24. The Price of Freedom - Eritrea - 1992
25. Hostages in political poker - Kurdistan 1992
26. Street proletariat - Nicaragua 1992
27. From Marx to Mohammed - Tajikistan - Uzbekistan 1993
28. In the battle of the denominations - Lebanon 1993
29. At the Edge of Hell - Angola 1993
30. Can you forget - will you forgive? - South Africa 1994
31. In the war of civilizations - Bolivia 1995
32. Right to Work - Portugal 1995
33. Your future is your past - Senegal 1996
34. Lawless in the rule of law - Brazil 1997
35. Under the spell of Islam - Jordan 1997
36. When the errors are used up - 1999

literature

• Gordian Troeller (Ed. Ingrid Becker-Ross-Troeller): Antifascist. Anarchist. Journalist. Gordian Troeller reports. An Autobiography Pro BUSINESS, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86805-315-9
• Christel Adick & Franz R. Stuke (eds.): Far countries - foreign customs. Analyzes of the films by Gordian Troeller IKO, Frankfurt 1996 ISBN 3-88939-194-X
• Robert Garcia: Settlement with the mighty: the filmmaker Gordian Troeller In: Lëtzebuerger Almanach '89 pp. 44–57
• Robert Römen: Charles "Gordian" Troeller is dead: Resistance activist , head of the secret service, journalist and filmmaker In: Lëtzebuerger Journal 56, No. 58, March 25, 2003, p. 2

Web links

• Literature by and about Gordian Troeller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gordian Troeller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography, films, reports and photos
• Biography, films, reports and photos
• Ernst Schreckenberg: "A passionate chronicler" - retrospective