Hans-Christoph Blumenberg

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Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (also Hans C. Blumenberg ; born March 1, 1947 in Lychen ) is a German film critic , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Blumenberg studied history and German in Cologne. From 1966 to 1976 he worked as a film critic for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . From 1976 to 1983 he was a film editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , which made him one of the most influential film critics in Germany. Even then, Blumenberg appeared regularly as an author and director of television documentaries, mostly on topics from the world of film.

In 1971 Blumenberg had visited directors of classic Hollywood in the USA . The interviews resulted in several television documentaries for WDR as well as the interview book The Camera at Eye Level about Howard Hawks . In 1984 he made his first feature film Thousand Eyes. After his first three movies, Blumenberg turned increasingly to television. Among other things, he staged ten Tatort episodes, eight of them with Jochen Senf as Saarbrücken inspector “Max Palu”. Three low-budget cinema films, which were shown at many international festivals and won national and international film awards, were made between 1993 and 2001. Blumenberg is now considered “one of the best German television directors” ( FAZ of March 1, 2007).

Filmography

Direction and script

Director

script

  • 2002: Life goes on (docu-drama) based on Blumenberg's own book from 1993
  • 2003: The Officers' Hour (TV movie)
  • 2009: SOKO Wismar - A wolf seldom comes alone (TV series)

actor

Fonts (selection)

  • Film positive. Directors, stars and technology. Düsseldorf 1968.
  • Master of the perfect shape. The tasks of the industrial designer. Düsseldorf 1969.
  • as compiler / editor: Sport in the feature film. A documentation. Oberhausen 1970.
  • Wanted. Wanted posters from the Wild West. Düsseldorf 1970 (paperback edition Munich 1973, ISBN 3-423-00933-0 ).
  • as co-author: Humphrey Bogart. Film series (Volume 8), Munich and Vienna 1976 (3rd, supplemented edition Munich and Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-446-14536-2 ).
  • as co-author: New Hollywood. Film series (Volume 10), Munich and Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-446-12262-1 .
  • The camera at eye level. Encounters with Howard Hawks. Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1124-9 .
  • Cinema time. Articles and reviews on modern film 1976–1980. Frankfurt am Main 1980 (2nd edition Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-596-23664-9 ).
  • as co-author and co-editor: Wait until it gets dark. 7 years “Film im Bild” from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 1968 to 1974. Ebersberg / Obb. 1983, ISBN 3-923979-03-7 .
  • Counter shot. Texts about filmmakers and films 1980–1983. Frankfurt am Main 1984 (2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-596-23692-4 ).
  • In my heart, honey ... The life journey of the actor and singer Hans Albers. Frankfurt am Main 1991 ISBN 3-596-10662-1 .
  • Life goes on - the last film of the Third Reich . Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6 .
  • as co-author: Making of… How a film is made. The art of filmmaking from A to Z. Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89324-127-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Blumenberg, Hans-Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenberg, Hans C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lychen