Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 2007

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (born December 8, 1935 in Nossendorf , Western Pomerania ) is a German director . He is counted among the representatives of the New German Cinema .

life and work

Born the son of a landowner, he lived in Rostock and Berlin after 1945 . In 1952/53 the first 8 mm films were made from the theater rehearsals of the Berliner Ensemble . In 1953 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he studied literature and art history from 1956 to 1957 . He did his doctorate in Munich on "The absurd at Dürrenmatt ". 1963 turned Syberberg culture reports for the Munich Evening News of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , among other things, Fritz Kortner and Romy Schneider .

This was followed by the first feature films such as the 1969 film shot Scarabea after Tolstoy - novel . Films like Ludwig , Karl May and Hitler were an examination of the German tradition. His film San Domingo received the German film award in 1971 for best camera (Christian Blackwood) and best film music ( Amon Düül ) in gold. Syberberg has worked closely with actress Edith Clever since 1982 . This resulted in numerous theater and film projects, for example Parsifal (1982) and Penthesilea (1988).

Syberberg lives in Munich and Nossendorf near Demmin , where he bought back the family's run-down property after the fall of the Wall . He reconstructed the old division of the manor house, cleared the garden of rubble and rubble, planted trees and rebuilt the old paths. In 2010 he was awarded the Friedrich Lisch Monument Prize of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for renovating his parents' house on his own, which is endowed with 4,500 euros.

For Syberberg, the cinema is a vital passion, a “ total work of art ”. His cinematographic work is shaped by a fusion of two originally opposing poles of German cultural history : rationalism in the 18th century and romanticism in the 19th century.

His five-hour film Winifred Wagner and the History of the House of Wahnfried 1914–1975 (1975), consisting of only one interview, exposed the friendship of the Bayreuth clan with Adolf Hitler and was therefore bitterly opposed by the Wagnerians. Because of this and his controversial work Hitler, a film from Germany (1977), an interview with André Müller (1988) and his book Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach der Last Krieg (1990), he was accused of trivializing National Socialism. In this regard, Syberbergs is convinced that grief work can only happen if you face the fascination of the Third Reich and explore the "Hitler in us".

From 1980 Syberberg was the first columnist of the newly founded newspaper taz with the column Syberbergs Notes .

In 1968 and 1982 Syberberg was awarded the German Critics' Prize. In 2011 he was appointed “Commandeur” of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture .

For Th. Hierneis or: How to become a former Hofkoch , Syberberg received the Adolf Grimme Prize for the most interesting experiment and the German Film Prize in Gold in the category of best full-length film without a game in 1973, together with the main actor Walter Sedlmayr .

Syberberg works on projects through his hometown of Nossendorf and Demmin . In 2017, for example, he had Café Zilm on the market square in Demmin, which burned down in 1945, revived for two weeks in its original size as a facade printed on fabric.

Filmography

Fonts

  • Interpretations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama: Two model interpretations of the essence of modern drama . Uni-Druck, Munich 1965.
  • Photography of the 1930s: An Anthology . Schirmer-Mosel Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 978-3-921375-14-3 .
  • Film book - film aesthetics - 10 years of everyday film life - my grief work for Bayreuth - dictionary of the German film critic . Fischer paperback, 1979, ISBN 3-596-23650-9 .
  • The joyless society. Notes from last year . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-446-13351-8 .
  • Parsifal. A film essay . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-01626-2 .
  • The forest stands black and is silent. New notes from Germany . Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-257-01662-X .
  • Kleist, Penthesilea . Hentrich, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926175-49-4 .
  • On the misfortune and luck of art in Germany after the last war . Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88221-761-8 .
  • The lost mission - an essay . Karolinger, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-85418-068-5 .
  • Do the right thing . Kronenbitter, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-930580-02-0 .
  • Film after film . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 3-940748-12-9 .

literature

  • Sucher, C. Bernd (editor) Theater Lexikon, authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV), Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Guido Goossens, Lost zonsondergangen. Hans Jürgen Syberberg en het left think over right in Duitsland. Amsterdam University Press, 2004, ISBN 90-5356-677-5 .
  • Roger Hillman: A Wagnerian German Requiem: Syberberg's Hitler (1977). In: RH: Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology . Bloomington, Indiana U.Pr., 2005.
  • Gerald Matt, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Boris Groys and others: Syberberg - film after the film . Ed. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Gerald Matt for the Kunsthalle Wien, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-12-6 .
  • Nina Noeske: Beyond Wagner with Wagner: Hans-Jürgen Syberbergs Parsifal-Film (1982) , in: Parsifals Rituale. Religious Prefigurations and Aesthetic Transformations. Contributions to the Easter Symposium Salzburg 2013 , ed. by Jürgen Kühnel and Siegrid Schmidt, Anif / Salzburg: Müller-Speiser 2014 (= Word and Music 77), pp. 110–124.
  • Petrus H. Nouwens, Hans Jürgen Syberberg and the Nossendorf model / spaces and figures without time and place , Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8440-5867-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katja Nicodemus: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: A King in Resistance . In: The time . August 29, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).
  2. ^ Katja Nicodemus: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: A King in Resistance . In: The time . August 29, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 10, 2019]).
  3. ^ André Müller: One wants to kill me , interview with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in DIE ZEIT from September 30, 1988
  4. ↑ Spring for Hitler? , Article of September 3, 1990 by Hellmuth Karasek on Spiegel Online
  5. ^ Katja Nicodemus: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: A King in Resistance . In: The time . September 15, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed September 30, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Bottom line . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 8, 1995, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on July 3, 2020]).
  7. ↑ History should come to life: A reunion with Café Zilm | Nordkurier.de . September 18, 2017 ( nordkurier.de [accessed September 30, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Nossendorf , Western Pomerania