Harry Rag
Harry Rag , actually Peter Braatz , another pseudonym Petrus Braatzi (born September 24, 1959 in Solingen ) is a German musician, film director , film editor and film producer . His stage name, Harry Rag , which he adopted in 1977 as guitarist and singer in the band SYPH , refers to the song of the same name by the rock band The Kinks .
Life
Harry Rag grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and worked as a craftsman until 1982 after completing an apprenticeship. In 1980 he briefly attended a design school in Düsseldorf. Since 1977 he has been the songwriter, singer and guitarist of the group SYPH , which was one of the first German punk bands.
From 1982 to 1988 Harry Rag studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In 1985 he was David Lynch's guest on the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, USA and in 1986 he was involved as a second staff cameraman in the Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin .
Harry Rag has been working for "Taris Filmproduction" since 1988 as a freelance producer, director, cameraman and film editor. In the same year he was awarded the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since then he has produced numerous feature films, documentaries and videos; partly also for television productions such as a series of seven short films for the WDR in 1996 or a monthly weekend show for the Slovenian television in 1999.
Harry Rag has been married to the Slovenian director Maja Weiss since 1993 . The couple have two children and live in Slovenia.
Films (selection)
- 1985: The wonderful mandarin
- 1987: Livebeat , The Plan (VHS)
- 1987: The sky over Berlin
- 1988: No Frank in Lumberton
- 1991: GDR - untitled
- 1993: On the way back
- 1995: Photo film 2001
- 1995: Nevski Melody
- 1999: engine cult
- 1997: Sex Pistols, Welcome Home
- 1998: Adrian
- 2001: Steklarski blues
- 2002: Over the Sun - Under the Moon
- 2002: Varuh meje
- 2004: Music flies in the air
- 2007: Naked Than Naked / Live in Berlin , Blumfeld (DVD)
- 2007: The human fish
- 2011: Tamikrest - A Desert Blues
- 2015: The new windows of Reims Cathedral
- 2016: Blue Velvet Revisited
- 2019: The 3 satellites
Web links
- Peter Braatz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Harry Rag at filmportal.de
- Harry Rag at Discogs (English)
- Official website
- Official website SYPH
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 , p. 50
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SURNAME | Rag, Harry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braatz, Peter (maiden name); Braatzi, Petrus (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, film director, film editor and film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen |