Hard jobs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hard jobs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hannelore Conradsen Dieter Köster |
| script |
Hannelore Conradsen Dieter Köster |
| production | Hannelore Conradsen |
| camera | Dieter Köster , Maximillian Benesch |
| cut | Dieter Köster , Hannelore Conradsen |
| occupation | |
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Sensational reporters (and their acquaintances) as well as the objects | |
Harte Jobs is a 1993 documentary by Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster . It was made in response to the role of media representatives in the 1988 Gladbeck hostage drama .
action
Tough Jobs is the portrait of three men commonly referred to as bloodhounds and snoopers. The documentarists accompanied the two Berlin photo reporters Eberhard Auriga and Wolfgang Brückner as well as Heinz W. Friedriszik from Cologne , known around the city as Zik . On roller skates and with the camera at the ready, Zik rattles the trendy bars, asks the men's outfitter about prominent customers, takes a few pictures of Willy Millowitsch in front of the private bird feeder. His fears of the upcoming hip operation are definitely enough for a few headlines.
Brückner, meanwhile, romps around at techno parties and on the men's trip, fate reporter Auriga in a working-class household, where a mother with twelve children makes thick soup and complains about too little money.
Conradsen and Köster show sensational reporters, but not great sensations. Daily and miserable everyday life is captured, no voyeuristic imagery is created with which colleagues are pilloried by colleagues.
Auriga, Zik and Brückner represent the “average” of the everyday paparazzi who move in the nebulous gray area between “barely tolerable and absolutely tasteless” without any awareness of wrongdoing. Zik and Co. do their job like perfectly good bank employees.
As patiently and easily as Zik waits for “a few girls” from RTL, he would also wait patiently and easily for the moment “until the police get the corpse out”. And with the same assiduity with which Auriga photographs a kitten for private purposes, he photographs a horribly battered accident victim. What is shot is what comes in front of the lens: "everything is just reality".
Professional ethics, morals, conscience - “this is what intellectuals discuss”, but not the former construction worker Auriga, who bores skat and beer and who can now afford a jeep and suddenly look good in front of friends and women.
The film's creators do not judge it, but record it. For example, Köster asks what Auriga thinks of the sensational reporter who is shot by his "object" in a Heinrich Böll novel. Auriga says he was unlucky.
criticism
The film received unanimous praise from the press and was nominated for the Golden Camera .
“Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster made a film about reporters as reporters. They save themselves from the sensationalism in absolute sobriety. You hold still and watch. You do not record, but film, on 16mm negative material, which gives your excellent documentation something liberating old-fashioned, and the reality it shows something obscenely real ... grief is the basic mood of this film (which does not even try to create a mood for a second generate): grief over a world of uninterrupted exchange of favors and money. Would Alfred Biolek exist if sensational photographer Zik didn't take a picture of him in the restaurant after a show? Would Zik exist if Bio hadn't introduced him on TV and given him his nickname? "
note
Note by the co-author and co-director Köster on his production website:
“It was the hardest filming for me so far, because all of them are (more or less) nice, informative colleagues (who also have their own personal and artistic ambitions). We (like them) use a fairground medium (which often operates at their level because the audience, the quota, demands it). So it was far from us to measure our colleagues with a moral standard. It was simply a question of why they (often have to do) the hard job. "