Hans Christof Stenzel

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Hans Christof Stenzel (born May 6, 1935 in Berlin ; † June 2, 2019 there ) was a German film director and screenwriter .

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Stenzel graduated from high school in 1954 and then studied business administration, German and psychology in Hamburg and Berlin. In 1955 he co-founded the film studio at the Free University of Berlin .

Starting with commercials , Stenzel has worked as a director mainly for television since 1962. In 1965/66 he was deputy director of stern tv , Hamburg and from 1969 to 1971 lecturer in film design at the University of Television and Film in Munich .

Some of Stenzel's films, such as The Flowers of Evil (1968, based on Baudelaire ), were not shown or, like Gruß Attersee (1969), were shown practically in camera. In 1977 his travel documentary film C'est la vie Rose , dedicated to the artist Marcel Duchamp , was released in cinemas . The film received two federal film awards . In 1979, Sufferloh followed - from holy love and grace : a curious Bavarian and a young boy want to drown a goldfish in the Isar , but they cannot find the Isar. The next film Obscene - the case of Peter Herzl (1981) was set in the Viennese milieu, while Marmor, Stein und Eisen breaks (1982) was an ambivalent biography of the pop singer Drafi Deutscher .

literature

  • Herbert Holba: Reclam's German Film Lexicon: Film artists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , by Herbert Holba, Günter Knorr and Peter Spiegel. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984. ISBN 3-15-010330-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans. Christoph Stenzel 1935-2019. In: The Standard. June 8, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .