Hans-Georg Ullrich

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Hans-Georg Ullrich (* 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a German filmmaker and cameraman .

Life

Ullrich moved to West Berlin shortly before the Wall was built in 1961. There he attended the technical college for photography and worked as an assistant at the US television company CBS . He made a film for the German pavilion at the World Exhibition in Osaka in 1969, several industrial films , including one that won an award at the Paris Industrial Festival in 1970.

Ullrich has been working with Detlef Gumm since 1972. The two made their first children's films for the “ Sendung mit der Maus ” (WDR). The series “Everyday Life - Pictures on the Go” from WDR followed. Känguruh Film GmbH, founded in 1973, mainly produces documentary films. Hans-Georg Ullrich's films are about everyday stories. The focus is on the "little people". The documentaries tell about people of our time at eye level. A milestone in the documentary work of Hans-Georg Ullrich and Detlef Gumm is the long-term observation “ Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz ” (1986–2012). This major project documents people and their lives on the Bundesplatz in Berlin. In 2013 it was awarded the German Television Prize for “Special Achievements”. The documentary filmmaker and cameraman Hans-Georg Ullrich has made around 120 productions since 1972. He lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1979: Stories of Germany
  • 1979: Tomayer continues
  • 1981: Breker or learned nothing
  • 1981: Overcoming the storms
  • 1982: Don't panic on Hannibal
  • 1983: Three weeks northeast
  • 1985: The catalog
  • 1986: A circus full of adventure
  • 1986–2012: Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz
  • 1988: Brazilian Protocols
  • 1991: From street children and green chickens
  • 1992: Peace, joy, misery
  • 1993/94: The foreign
  • 1995/96: Photos for eternity
  • 1997/98: Got away again
  • 1999: As old as the century

Prizes and awards

  • Prize of the Second European Environment Festival Rotterdam (Don't panic on Hannibal)
  • Prize of the film and television makers of the GDR, Leipzig (Breker or nothing learned)
  • Prize at the Tomar Film Festival (Three Weeks Northeast)
  • Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze 1987 ( circus full of adventure , together with Detlef Gumm )
  • German Video Prize 1990 (circus full of adventure)
  • Goldener Spatz at the Children's Film Festival, Gera (From street children and green chickens)
  • Star of the year AZ, Munich (Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz)
  • Citizen's Medal Berlin (Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz)
  • German television award (Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz)

Festival participation

Nyon, Berlin, Duisburg, Tokyo, Leipzig, Washington DC, Tomar, Gera.

Publications (selection)

  • Biography and everyday life in the long-term documentary observation "Berlin - corner Bundesplatz" (1989/1991) - description and analysis of an experimental arrangement, master's thesis 1992, Claudia Dufke
  • Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz or as life plays - the book for the TV series "Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz", Henschel Verlag 1999, Peter-Paul Kubitz
  • Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz. The book, Bebra Verlag 2013, Claudia Lenssen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Ullrich. In: Pictures that we take: Essays on documentary film work and documentation: 5th Duisburger Filmwoche '81. , Filmforum der Volkshochschule, 1983, p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg