Hans-Dieter Grabe

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The documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe (2001)

Hans-Dieter Grabe (born March 6, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German documentary filmmaker and director . He was best known for his long-term studies .

Life

Grabe was born in Dresden as the son of Kurt Grabe, a career officer and a Colonel in the Air Force at the end of the war . After the destruction of Dresden, he moved to Cottbus , attended school there until 1955. From 1955 to 1959 studied at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg . From 1960 to 1962 Grabe worked as a freelancer for the Bayerischer Rundfunk television in Munich. He then became an editor at ZDF , for which he worked until he was 65 (2002). Hans-Dieter Grabe is the author and director of around 60 socio-political and contemporary history documentaries.

“Grave's work has been part of festivals, film art, university, film school and advanced training events for many years. Film and media scholars study his work. In most of his documentaries, which are often repeated by ZDF, 3sat, arte and Phoenix, Grabe focuses on people who are unknown and who he himself sought and found. Numerous awards demonstrate Grave's ability to shape the life and historical experiences of his protagonists in a way that touches the viewer and can be relived. He soon began to visit people from his earlier work again, such as the war-wounded Vietnamese Do Sanh or the Polish Jew and concentration camp inmate Mendel Szajnfeld. New films emerged from the re-encounters. Snapshots have now become documentaries about developments and changes in the life of Grave's protagonists. The viewers have the opportunity to get to know the people better, to become familiar with their lives and their life experiences, which means that they can think more intensively and longer about what they have seen and heard, but also about themselves. With his work Grabe has helped shape the face of television documentary films for over 30 years and is a role model for many who work or want to work in this genre. "

- Bodo Witzke : “I don't have to be afraid of bombs.” 2006

Grabe is a member of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and an honorary member of the German Film Academy .

In the documentation Armistice - Mein Sommer '45 in Dresden , Grabe reports on the end of the war from his point of view.

Awards

  • Honorary Diploma of the Adolf Grimme Prize for: Welfare in Arms (1963)
  • Adolf Grimme Prize in silver and valuation of the Marler Group (in connection with the Adolf Grimme Prize): 1st place and special prize from the Union of Asian Radio and Television Companies for: Only light fights in the Da Nang area (1970)
  • Adolf Grimme Prize in gold and evaluation of the Marler Group (in connection with the Adolf Grimme Prize): 1st place and Eduard Rhein Prize (3rd prize) and Prize of the German Film Critics for: Hiroshima, Nagasaki - atomic bomb victims say from (1985)
  • Robert Geisendörfer Prize (2nd Prize) and Eduard Rhein Prize (1st Prize) for: Abdullah Yakupoglu: Why did I kill my daughter? (1986)
  • Evaluation of the Marler Group (in connection with the Adolf Grimme Prize): 2nd place for: Jens and his parents (1990)
  • Special prize of the Film and Television Association, Documentary Film Festival Leipzig for: Dien, Chinh, Chung and Tung - Life attempts in Vietnam (1990)
  • Robert Geisendörfer Prize (1st prize) for: Do Sanh (1991)
  • Adolf Grimme Prize (together with cameraman Horst Bendel and spokesman Walter Renneisen) and honorary recognition, TV competition LiteraVision - TV prize of the state capital of Munich for: He called himself Hohenstein (1994)
  • German Critics' Prize for the complete works (1994)
  • Peace Film Prize of the Berlin International Film Festival for: He called himself Hohenstein (1994) and the epilogue Three Women from Poddembice (1995)
  • Nomination for the German TV Prize Telestar (ARD and ZDF) for: Ms. Siebert and her students (1997)
  • German television award Der Goldene Löwe (RTL) for: Do Sanh - the last film (1998)
  • German Film Critics' Prize and ARTE Documentary Film Prize for: Mendel Lives (1999)
  • Grand Prix of all categories, International Festival of Independent Films , Brussels for: Do Sanh - the last film (1999)
  • Federal Cross of Merit for the entire work (2002)
  • Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize and nomination for the German Television Prize for: These pictures haunt me (2003)
  • Adolf Grimme Prize for 20 × Brandenburg - Grabe was involved in this project with the contribution re- encounter (2011)
  • German Film Critics' Prize for: Raimund - one year before (2013)
  • Nomination of the Adolf Grimme Prize for Anton and I (2018)

Movies

  • 1963: Welfare in Arms - a report on neutral Sweden
  • 1964: The Liberated - Austrians in neutrality
  • 1965: Kuwait - a sheikdom falls into the 20th century
  • 1966: Hope - Five times a day. Observations at a German train station
  • 1966: Schools abroad inadequate - report on a German failure
  • 1966: The Heligoland in Vietnam
  • 1967: And then the monarchy was frightened - report on the rise of the Danish communist leader Aksel Larsen
  • 1968: The rubble women of Berlin
  • 1968: Lava - Mount Etna and its people
  • 1968: Behind the Swedish Curtains - Experiments and Reforms in Sweden's Prison System
  • 1970: Only light fighting in the Da Nang area
  • 1972: Mendel Schainfeld's second trip to Germany
  • 1972: Who shoots Ralf Bialla?
  • 1977: Mehmet Turan or another year, another year ...
  • 1979: The miracle of Lengede or I don't wish anyone what we went through
  • 1980: Emil Zátopek or Dana says: Beer makes you stupid
  • 1981: Bernauer Strasse 1 to 50
  • 1981: Fritz Teufel or why didn't you shoot?
  • 1983: Ludwig Gehm - a German resistance fighter
  • 1984: Dr. med. Alfred Jahn , pediatric surgeon in Landshut
  • 1985: Hiroshima , Nagasaki - Atomic bomb victims testify
  • 1986: Abdullah Yakupoglu: Why did I kill my daughter?
  • 1987: Gudrun Pehlke - Statistically speaking, you are dead
  • 1989: Overcoming powerlessness - Elisabeth Erb in Poland
  • 1990: Jens and his parents
  • 1994: He called himself Hohenstein , 1995: Epilogue: Three Women from Poddembice , 1996: Last Hours in Poddembice - a documentary trilogy
  • 1996: Mrs. Siebert and her students
  • 1998: Do Sanh - the last film
  • 1999: Mendel is alive
  • 2001: Broken embers
  • 2002: These pictures haunt me - Dr. med. Alfred Jahn
  • 2008: Food Stories
  • 2010: meeting again. In: 20 × Brandenburg - People - Places - Stories
  • 2013: Raimund - a year earlier
  • 2017: Anton and me
  • 2019: Armistice - My Summer '45 in Dresden

Texts by Hans-Dieter Grabe

(in chronological order)

  • to his film Ludwig Gehm - a German resistance fighter. In: 50 years of seizure of power. ZDF 1983, pp. 14-15.
  • on his film Abdullah Y .: "Why did I kill my daughter?" In: ZDF Journal Politics. October 1986, pp. 8-10.
  • Oral history. In: History on TV. Scientific Buchgesellschaft, 1988, pp. 204-218.
  • Wars can be prevented, I wanted to believe it. In: Adventure Reality. Akademie der Künste, 1989, p. 19.
  • Subsequent attempt to answer. In: 3sat Information. 11/89, pp. 25-26.
  • Repressed? The documentary on television and personal experiences (in the 1st line instead of “reality” “thoughtfulness”). In: radio correspondence . 45/1991, pp. 33-35.
  • My way to the conversation film. Lecture in the House of Documentary. In: Television Documentarism - Balance and Perspective. Verlag Ölschläger 1992, pp. 181-196.
  • Documentation statement. In: 26th Mainz TV Critic Days. ZDF, 1994, pp. 253-257.
  • He called himself Hohenstein - a past does not want to pass. In: ZDF yearbook 1994. pp. 83–86.
  • Jens and his parents - life experiences. In: Away from the cities. ECON, 1994, pp. 267-280.
  • to his film Do Sanh - the last film. In: ZDF Press Special. March 1998, pp. 2-6.
  • Do Sanh - the last film, New Experiences. In: ZDF yearbook 1998. pp. 70–71.
  • It started in Vietnam. The pediatric surgeon Alfred Jahn and H.-D. Dig in: ZDF contact. 1/2003, pp. 16-17.
  • to his film Mendel Lives. In: From the middle. Dresden University of Fine Arts. Sandstein Verlag Dresden, 2005, pp. 131-138, 260.
  • Hopes. In documentary film in transition. UVK - Verlag Konstanz, 2006, pp. 259-262.
  • Leipzig, April 25, 2006 6.41pm, on the train. In: 30 forewords. City of Duisburg / Duisburg Film Week, 2006.
  • It is wonderful to think that you can eat as much as you like. About his film Stories of Food. In: ZDF contact. 11/2008, p. 14 f.
  • Leave space for the audience for their own thoughts and images. Lecture at the Zurich University of the Arts. Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich 2010, pp. 1–14.
  • Look back. In: Booklet for the DVD edition Hans-Dieter Grabe - Documentarist on TV. absolut Medien, 2012, pp. 33–38.

Conversations with Hans-Dieter Grabe

(in chronological order)

  • Martin Eggenschwyler on Only light fights in the Da Nang area. 3sat, March 3, 1991.
  • Christian Erlewein “Approach, not ingratiate” - H.-D. Dig over the gentle method of his documentaries. In: medium. 2/92.
  • Martin Huebner The DEFA complex. Episode 8: Refugees. MDR, August 3, 1993.
  • Cornelia Bolesch on life experiences: Do Sanh and days with Sanh in traces of the war. In: Documentary Time. 3sat, March 27, 1994.
  • Cornelia Bolesch zu He called himself Hohenstein and Three Women from Poddembice. In: Dokumenarfilmzeit. 3sat, March 26, 1995.
  • Cornelia Bolesch to Jens and his parents and Jens from Sunday afternoon to Friday evening. In: Documentary Time. 3sat, December 15, 1996.
  • Christa Blümlinger to Mrs. Siebert and her students. In: Documentary Time. 3sat, March 15, 1998.
  • Christoph Hübner Working in a documentary way: Better less than more. Documentary. 3sat, September 27, 1998.
  • Christoph Hübner: Working in a documentary way: Better less than more. In: Ins Offene… Working in a documentary way 2. In: Vorwerk. 8, 2000, pp. 12-59.
  • Dietrich Leder zu Do Sanh - the last film. In: Documentary Time. 3sat, April 30, 2000.
  • Bodo Witzke : “I don't have to be afraid of bombs” - the documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe. Documentary, ZDF, March 7, 2002 (1:39:29 hours).
  • David A. Goldsmith: The Documentary Makers - Interviews with 15 of the Best in the Business. RotoVision, Switzerland, 2003, pp. 44–53.
  • Hardy Prothmann: All the hardship - conversation with Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: CUT 8 + 9. 2003, pp. 38-39.
  • Mark Obert: Consideration and respect. In: epd media . No. 90 November 17, 2004.
  • Titus David Hamdorf: With accuracy and tender length - conversation with the documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe, led by Titus David Hamdorf. In: Art & Therapy. Journal of Artistic Therapies. 2005, No. 1, ISSN  1432-833X , pp. 41-49.
  • Ulrike Angermann : Forum extra. Hans-Dieter Grabe for his seventieth. Conversation about life's work and the stages in life . ZDFdokukanal , March 6, 2007.
  • Doris Titze: Encounters are of great value. In: Resonance and Resilience. Dresden University of Fine Arts. Sandstein Verlag Dresden, 2008, pp. 63–75.
  • Isabell Sterzel: The man behind the camera. In: Journal for cultural anthropology / folklore. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. No. 10/2010, pp. 10-14.

literature

(in alphabetic order)

  • Rudolf Blank: Quiet and Close - About Hans-Dieter Grabe's documentary work. In: ZDF Presse Extra. 2001, pp. 2-3.
  • Rudolf Blank: Hans-Dieter Grabe - master of less is more. In: Booklet for the DVD edition Hans-Dieter Grabe - Documentarist on TV. Deutsche Kinemathek / Museum for Film and Television / absolut Medien, 2012, pp. 26–32.
  • Claas Danielsen: Incomparable cautiousness - the exact look. Homage H.-D. Dig. In: Catalog of the 49th Internat. Leipzig festivals for documentary and animation films. 2006, pp. 128-137.
  • Matthias Dell: Repair something. One of them is Germany: About the work of the documentarist Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: Cargo . 46, June 20, 2020, pp. 54–57.
  • Patrick Conley: Twenty-eight years for a film. In: CUT. Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1998), p. 50 f.
  • Simone Emmelius: Against all odds - Hans-Dieter Grabes Do Sanh films. In: The repetition. Schüren-Verlag, 2001.
  • Thomas S. Frank: Creating spaces for reflection. The documentary method by Hans-Dieter Grabe. Berlin 2005.
  • Isabel Gentsch: Hans-Dieter Grabe - The conversation film. University of Lüneburg, 1996, pp. 1–23.
  • Britta Hartmann: Grave, Hans-Dieter. In: Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York / London 2009, pp. 497-499.
  • Christian Hißnauer: There were eleven downstairs . At the top was "the whole world". The thematicization of the Lengede mine disaster in a documentary play and as a conversation film. In: Christian Hißnauer, Andreas Jahn-Sudmann (Ed.): Media - time - signs. Contributions to the 19th Colloquium on Film and Television Studies. Schüren-Verlag, Marburg 2007, pp. 45–53.
  • Christian Hißnauer: Foreign Germany: Home and Foreign from the Perspective of Migrants - Hans-Dieter Grabes Documentaries of the 1980s. In: Claudia Böttcher, Judith Kretzschmar, Markus Schubert (eds.): Heimat und Fremde. Self, external and role models in film and television (= MedienRausch. Series of publications by the Center for Science and Research. Volume 1). Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89975-155-0 , pp. 35–46.
  • Christian Hißnauer: Psychomontage and oral history: A sketch on the history of the development of interview documentarism in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: radio and history . 1–2 / 2010, pp. 19–25.
  • Christian Hißnauer: Saying out of the Holocaust. Experienced memories in the interview films Eberhard Fechner and the interview films Hans-Dieter Grabes. In: Ursula von Keitz, Thomas Weber (Hrsg.): Mediale Transformationen des Holocaust. Avinus-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86938-039-1 , pp. 173-196.
  • Christian Hißnauer: Describing people, telling lives - the television portraits of Georg Stefan Troller and Hans-Dieter Grabe. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17316-6 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-658-17317-3 .
  • Stefan Reinecke: There is no such thing as external suffering - interview technique in documentary film using the example of television documentaryist Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: Imagery Worldviews. Hitzeroth Verlag, Marburg 1990, pp. 169-178.
  • Karl Nikolaus Renner: Pictures from the war. Emotion control in Hans-Dieter Grabe's anti-war film “Only light fights in the Da Nang area”. In: War Visions. Image communication and war. Edited by Thomas Knieper, Marion G. Müller . Halem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-931606-83-X , pp. 105-119, doi: 10.1007 / s11616-007-0048-4 .
  • Manfred Riepe: My face is unimportant - for the 65th birthday of the documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: radio correspondence . 10/2002, pp. 30-31.
  • Manfred Riepe: Hans-Dieter Grabe or: What documentary observations can do. In: media correspondence . April 30, 2019, accessed July 5, 2020.
  • Wilhelm Roth: Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: The documentary film since 1960. Verlag C. J. Bucher, Munich / Lucerne 1982, pp. 151–153.
  • Wilhelm Roth: Apparat television - Hans-Dieter Grabe, the patient questioner. In: Documentary television. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1990, pp. 85-88.
  • Thomas Rothschild: On the dramaturgy of the documentary "Do Sanh - the last film". In: Filmbulletin. 2/99, pp. 12-18.
  • Klaus Schreyer: About the perception of film images in Grabe and Troller. In: Television Documentarism - Balance and Perspective. Verlag Ölschläger, 1994, pp. 197-220.
  • Kraft Wetzel: Oral History as a Revelation. In: Adventure Reality. Akademie der Künste 1989, pp. 20–28.
  • Kraft Wetzel: the language of bleeding flesh - the documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe relies on the power of images. In: Medium. July / September 1989, pp. 51-55.
  • Bodo Witzke : “I don't have to be afraid of bombs.” The documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe (= series of publications “Film Studies”. Volume 47). Gardez! -Verlag, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 3-89796-168-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Witzke: “I don't have to be afraid of bombs.” The documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe. Remscheid 2006, p. 358 f.
  2. ^ Film and Media Art - Members. Hans-Dieter Grabe. Film documentarist, journalist. In: adk.de, accessed on April 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Interview with Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: zdf.de. ZDF , accessed on July 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ He called himself Hohenstein. From the diary of a German official commissioner in occupied Poland 1940–42. Film by Hans-Dieter Grabe on the occasion of the director's 80th birthday ( memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (90 min.). In: phoenix.de, accessed on March 4, 2017 (description of the film; the author of the diary was Franz Heinrich Bock ).
  5. ↑ Epilogue: Three women from Poddembice. Film by Hans-Dieter Grabe. In: phoenix.de, accessed on March 5, 2017 (film description).
  6. ↑ Do Sanh - the last film ( Memento from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: ZDF media library . March 5, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  7. ^ Raimund - one year earlier ( Memento from September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: ZDF media library . March 5, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ Anton and me. In: ZDF media library . October 13, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Armistice - My Summer '45 in Dresden. In: ZDF media library . Available until May 3, 2021.
  10. ↑ “I don't have to be afraid of bombs” - The documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe on YouTube , November 24, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2017.
  11. ^ ZDF: The program highlights of the ZDFdokukanal in March 2007. In: Press portal , accessed on November 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ Hans-Dieter Grabe at filmportal.de , accessed on December 16, 2017 (PDF; 2.5 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Grave, Hans-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden