Hartmut Kaminski

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Hartmut Kaminski while filming the six-part TV documentary Stand up, it's war , 1990 in Brest

Hartmut Kaminski (born May 7, 1944 in Buchenhagen , East Prussia , † June 1, 2016 in Lohmar ) was a German filmmaker , artist and art dealer .

Life

Hartmut Kaminski did his Abitur at the Aufbaugymnasium in Herchen , then first studied architecture in Braunschweig and after his exams switched to the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Here he met his wife Elke Jonigkeit . From 1967 both studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , she art education, he free art. Their son, Cornelius Kaminski, was born in Düsseldorf in 1968. After her state examination, Elke Jonigkeit taught as an art teacher at the Düsseldorf advanced high school for 13 years. In February 1982 - shortly after her promotion to senior teacher - she left school to devote herself entirely to her artistic and cinematic work.

While still an art student, Hartmut Kaminski traveled to Poland with his wife in 1969 to look for his birthplace. This early encounter with the country where he was born as a German with a Polish name, as well as the confrontation with the German crimes of fascism, never let go of him. This first trip was followed by more. Later the countries Russia , Belarus and the Baltic States were added.

Work as a filmmaker

Kaminski founded the Düsseldorf film class together with the Danish screenwriter and film director Ole John Povlsen (* 1939) at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , from which the Düsseldorf film group emerged . The first major joint event - "Film Kritisch" - took place in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1971 , which was followed by more until 1973. In 1975/76 the Düsseldorf film group produced the feature film The Just War 1525 . In parallel, Kaminski worked with his art professor Dieter Roth and other artists who were active in Düsseldorf in the 1970s.

Hartmut Kaminski and his film team in Moscow 1992.
Hartmut Kaminski (2nd from left) is filming the 4-part television series "Stalin" in Moscow in 1992 - here with his team.

In 1979 Elke Jonigkeit and Kaminski founded the film production company Circle-Film . They produced and shot their films under this label. Many films, exhibitions and events planned and carried out together.

From 1979 until his death, Kaminski directed the film forum at the adult education center in Herne .

Work as an artist and art dealer

During his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he made friends with artists such as Robert Filliou , Roman Signer , Henning Christiansen , Bernd Minnich , André Thomkins , Dieter Roth , Ugo Dossi and many others. The works that emerged from this are now exhibited in international galleries and shown in recognized museums around the world, for example at the MOMA in New York. With his professor Dieter Roth he developed a "revolution in printmaking". Each copy of an edition becomes a unique original in the course of the printing work, comparable to a painted picture or a chiseled sculpture.

In his screen printing workshop in Düsseldorf-Flingern he printed among many others Dieter Rot's city prints , such as B. Emme , the Solothurn Bahnhofplatz , the vegetable print Thomkinspatent , the cocoa print graphic with cocoa and the rust print root treatment .

For Robert Fillou he printed the series "Projects for Sky-Writing" and "7 Childlike Uses of Warlike Material". These could be seen in the exhibition Robert Filliou - The Secret of Permanent Creation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA).

For Ugo Dossi he produced chess screen prints for the book Ugo Dossi - Schach & Kunst (Chess & Art) .

In 1973 he opened a gallery with works by Bernd Minnich in his apartment in Düsseldorf. This was followed by exhibitions for Roman Signer, Bernhard Lüthi , Robert Strübin and others. The aforementioned artists and others, e.g. B. Hagen Haltern, Hermann-Josef Kuhna and Robert Strübin, he represented as an art dealer at the Basel Art Fair .

Hartmut Kaminski at his stand during the International Art Fair, Basel 1973
Hartmut Kaminski takes part in the International Art Fair in Basel for the first time.

From 1982 Kaminski devoted himself exclusively to documentary film work.

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Filmography

  • 1970: Multi-screen shows: “Let a hundred flowers bloom”, “Shadow degree hikes”, “10 words for Robert Filliou” and more.
  • 1971: Annual portrait of Elke (experimental film, 16 mm)
  • 1972: Once inside (documentary, 16 mm)
  • 1976: The Big Drop (short film)
  • 1978: A car (documentary, 16 mm)
  • 1975/76: The Just War 1525 (feature film, 16mm)
  • 1980: I can see everything else, only such people cannot (documentary, 16mm)
  • 1981: Short Stories (animation)
  • 1982: Silent Screams (Documentary)
  • 1983: The children of Himmlerstadt (documentary film)
  • Turning Points (documentary
  • Apocalypse (feature film)
  • 1987–89: Making a mark (documentary)
  • 1990/91: In the valley of the Kalash (documentary film)
  • 1990/91: A Winter Festival in the Hindu Kush (documentary)
  • Get up, it's war (6-part documentary, 45 minutes each)
  • The Soviet story from the Tsar to Gorbachev (3-part documentary film)
  • 1992/93: STALIN (4-part documentary film)
  • 1994/95: The Children of Auschwitz (documentary film)
  • The man who called himself Lenin (documentary)
  • 1996: The failed Blitzkrieg - Moscow Winter 1941 (documentary)
  • 1997/98: The Red October - The BIG and the Little Lies (documentary)
  • 1999/2000: Love in the War of Extermination (Documentary)
  • 1986 - 2013: Afghanistan cycle (8-part documentary film)

Films in collaboration with Elke Jonigkeit

  • 1982, silent screams , 16 mm, 30 '
  • 1983, The children of Himmlerstadt , 30 '
  • 1983, Turning Points (TV movie)
  • 1984–88, At home - what is it actually?
  • 1987–89, making a mark, (TV film) 16 mm
  • 1990/91 Kalash culture - consisting of: In the Kalash Valley and A Winter Festival in the Hindu Kush, 16mm
  • 1995 Aché - the African soul of Cuba, 85 ', 16mm.

Films Elke Jonigkeit has worked on

  • 1975/76, The Just War 1525,
  • 1990/91, Get Up, It's War , 6-part TV series
  • 1990/91, Soviet history from the Tsar to Gorbachev,
  • 1992/93, Stalin, 4-part TV series.

In 1985 Elke Jonigkeit decided to attend an Afghan wedding in a Pakistani refugee camp. The encounter with the Afghan families in the huge refugee camps led to her making eight documentaries in Afghanistan with the support of Kaminski .

Afghanistan cycle

  • 2012 From King Amanullah to Facebook, 82 '
  • 2010 Survival in Kabul - a city and its women, 45 '
  • 2007 On the establishment of the NAZO center - a letter from Afghanistan, 23 'collaboration with Nurullah Ebrahimy
  • 2003 Die Frauen von Kabul - Stars in the Burning Sky Documentary, 55 ', Hessischer Filmpreis 2003
  • 1989/99 Tschadari & Buz Kaschi - Afghan women today, 99 ', FBW: Valuable
  • 1887–89 women with names never heard before, 16 mm, 30 '
  • 1987–89 My father is a martyr, 16 mm, 30 '
  • 1987–1989 Afghan children dream of peace - A report from Kabul, 16 mm, 30

After the fall of the Taliban in 2002, she and the protagonists of her films founded a vocational training center for women in Kabul , which still exists today.

At the same time, she put together the exhibition "Views behind the veil - from the everyday life of Afghan women", which was shown for the first time in 1989 in Düsseldorf in the "Museum for People and Economy" and then in 10 other cities.

literature

  • Hartmut Kaminski, Elke Jonigkeit: Nobody thinks of me and knows about me ... Prometh Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-922009-51-4 .

Exhibitions

Invitation card for the opening of the exhibition

Reviews

Kaminski's documentaries received many reviews. Including Manfred Loimeier , TAZ , Die Zeit , but also from the State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate and Brown University in Providence

Web links

Commons : Hartmut Kaminski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1973: Filmgruppe Düsseldorf, press kit of the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Members: Jörg Boström; Bert Günther; Ole John; Hartmut Kaminski; Chris Kohlhöfer; Jürgen Kuhfuß; Lutz Mommartz; Tony Morgan; Rolf Nedddermann; Reinald Schnell.
  2. ↑ 1978 (catalog editing and design: Hartmut Kaminski) FILMLANDSCHAFT NRW - directors introduce themselves - 1980 (catalog editing and design: Hartmut Kaminski) Part II of FILMLANDSCHAFT NRW - new people, new films.
  3. ↑ Filmforum mourns Hartmut Kaminski. Advertisement on lokalkompass.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Dieter Roth description on moma.org. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Solothurn Bahnhofplatz image on dieter-roth-foundation.com, accessed on October 2, 2019.
  6. ^ Diether Roth edited by Dirk Dobke: Dieter Roth Druckgraphik . Ed .: edition hansjörg mayer. Hansjörg Mayer, Jamburg / London 2003, ISBN 3-88375-628-8 , pp. 16, 78, 96-102, 104-107, 111, 113, 115-117, 120, 122, 317 .
  7. ^ M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp: Robert Filliou - The Secret of Remanent Creation . In: Ghislaine Peeters and Georges Uittenhout (eds.): Exhibition catalog . M HKA, Antwerp 2017, p. 157, 158, 134 .
  8. ^ Robert Filliou - The Secret of Permanent Creation Exhibition description on e-flux.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  9. ^ Ugo Dossi: Chess & Art . Ed .: Wolfgang Zemter. 2nd edition, 2nd ed. Art and Exhibition Hall of the FRG, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-941421-00-4 .
  10. ↑ Once you are inside, see the film description on dfi.dk. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ News on art happening : A drop for a hallelujah - review of the meeting of Roman Signer and Hartmut Kaminski in Mainz Article on portalkunstgeschichte.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ A car film description on dfi.dk. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  13. ↑ I can see everything else, only such people not the film description on filmportal.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  14. ↑ Silent screams film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  15. ^ The children of Himmlerstadt film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  16. ↑ In the valley of the Kalash film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  17. ↑ A Winter Festival in the Hindu Kush Description of the film on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  18. ↑ Hartmut Kaminski: Get up, it's war - The German attack on the Soviet Union . Ed .: TELE manuscript service. TR-Verlagsunion GmbH, Munich 1991.
  19. ↑ STALIN film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ Hartmut Kaminski: Stalin . Ed .: TELE manuscript service. TR-Verlagsunion GmbH, Munich 1993.
  21. ↑ The children of Auschwitz film description on kinderinauschwitz.info. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  22. ↑ Brown University Library's Stalin film description. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  23. ↑ The Red October - The BIG and the Little Lies Description of the film on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  24. ↑ Love in the War of Extermination Film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  25. ↑ Afghanistan cycle film description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  26. ↑ STALIN, STALIN, STALIN Description on circe-film.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  27. ↑ You were guilty anyway: A six-part series about the German attack on the Soviet Union: "Stand up, it's war!" Review by Manfred Loimeier. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  28. ↑ Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, Stalin: Four-part series: Hartmut Kaminski's major attempt to document the Stalin era. Review in the TAZ. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  29. ↑ TV review: Really over? Review in time. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  30. ↑ Stalin review of the state center for political education in Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  31. ↑ Stalin Review from Brown University. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kaminski, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, artist and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2016
Place of death Lohmar