Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (born January 9, 1944 as Harun El Usman Faroqhi in Neutitschein ; † July 30, 2014 near Berlin ) was a German filmmaker , author and university lecturer for film. He was one of the most important essay filmmakers and has made more than 90 films.
Life
Farocki was born as the son of the Indian doctor Abdul Qudus Faroqui, who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s, and his wife Lili in Neutitschein in Moravia and grew up in India and what is now Indonesia , later in Bad Godesberg and finally from 1958 in Hamburg .
In 1962, Harun Farocki settled in Berlin and, with Dimitrius Boyksen and Natias Neutert, initially ran the sealing gallery Zinke as a public meeting place for poets, before studying in the first year at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968 . From 1974 to 1984 he was editor of the magazine Filmkritik . Together with Hanns Zischler , he staged Heiner Müller's plays Die Schlacht und Traktor in Basel Theater in 1976 . From 1993 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the University of California , Berkeley (California), and since 2000 at the dffb and the Berlin University of the Arts . Since 2004 he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .
In the 2000s, Harun Farocki created a series of artistic works that are shown in the context of exhibitions and museums, including installations about prisons and shopping malls . In 2006, together with his wife Antje Ehmann , he curated the exhibition Kino Like Never in Vienna , which was shown in Berlin in 2007.
At the Documenta 12 ( Kassel 2007) Harun Farocki took the media installation Deep Play part (2007).
Farocki was the teacher of director Christian Petzold at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and had a lasting influence on his work. The two became friends, and for the next twenty years Farocki co-wrote many of Petzold's scripts and essays. Their last joint work is the film Phoenix from 2014.
He died unexpectedly on July 30, 2014 at the age of 70 near Berlin. Farocki found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in the Berlin district of Mitte .
Farocki's sister is the orientalist Suraiya Faroqhi .
student
Selected films
(R = direction, S = editing, B = script, P = production)
- 1966: Everyone a Berliner Kindl (R, B)
- 1967: The election worker (R, B)
- 1967: The Chairman's Words (R, B)
- 1969: Inextinguishable fire (R)
- 1970: The division of all days (R, S, B)
- 1971: A thing that goes without saying (R, B, P)
- 1975: Bend or Break (B)
- 1978: Between two wars (R, S, B, P)
- 1981: Something becomes visible (R, B, P)
- 1983: a picture
- 1983: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet working on a film based on Franz Kafka's novel fragment "America" (R)
- 1985: Cheated (R, B)
- 1986: As you can see (R, B, P)
- 1987: Image War (R)
- 1987: The training
- 1989: Images of the world and inscription of war (R, B, P)
- 1990: Life: FRG (R, B, P)
- 1991: Videograms of a Revolution (R, B, P)
- 1993: what's wrong? (R, B) (As part of the Berlin art campaign on Schwundgeld bone money )
- 1994: The retraining
- 1995: Workers leave the factory
- 1995: interface
- 1996: Applications (TV) (R, B)
- 1996: The appearance
- 1997: Still life (R, B)
- 1997: After the game (P)
- 1998: words and games
- 2000: The Inner Security (B, together with Ch. Petzold)
- 2000: prison pictures (R, B)
- 2001: Eye / Machine I [25 min.] (R, B, P)
- 2001: The creators of the shopping worlds (R, B)
- 2002: Eye / Machine II [15 min.]
- 2003: Eye / Machine III [16 min.]
- 2003: Recognize and track (R, B, P)
- 2004: Not without risk (R, B, P)
- 2005: The Wedding Factory (P)
- 2005: Ghosts (B)
- 2006: At the edge of the cities (P)
- 2007: Postponement - Documentary scenes from a Jewish transit camp
- 2007: Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007) (directed first episode Respite)
- 2009: For comparison (R, B)
- 2009/2010: Ernste Spiele I – IV , video series
- 2012: a new product
- 2013: Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
- 2014: Phoenix (B)
documentary
- Model / Reality - Christoph Hübner in conversation with Harun Farocki , Germany 2004, 60 min., From the documentary work series , script and direction: Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss, production: ARD , WDR , ZDF and 3sat , first broadcast: February 20 2005 on 3sat, information from WDR about the film ( memento from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Radio plays and features (selection)
- 1973: subject? - object? From the life of the pensioner W. - A portrait ( WDR )
- 1974: Professional Work and Alienation - Six Studies on the Consciousness of Dependent Workers
- 1976: Thinking barefoot. Employed at their work (WDR)
- 1976: Conversations with contemporaries (WDR)
- 1976: The big connecting pipe , directed by Walter Adler (WDR)
- 1977: The High Window or The Necklace of Death. A montage , directed by Otto Düben ( SDR )
- 1978: So long good-bye (WDR)
Fonts (selection)
- The large connecting pipe and as you can see . In: Die Republik , number 76-78 of September 9, 1986. Texts in connection with the films Between Two Wars and As One Seeers .
- Together with Kaja Silverman: Talking about Godard . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-930916-18-5 . Translated from English by Roger M. Buergel. With a foreword by Hanns Zischler. New edition as writings , Vol. 2. Ed. By Doreen Mende. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-224-1
- Reprint / imprint. Texts / Writings. Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer , Nicolaus Schafhausen . Into American transl. by Laurent Faasch-Ibrahim. Edited by Volker Pantenburg. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-930916-41-2 .
- Rote Berta goes hiking without love . Strzelecki Books, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812714-8-5 , publication on the occasion of the exhibition Harun Farocki - exhibition and film program in the Museum Ludwig . Autobiographical, description of the genesis of some of his works.
- Ten, twenty, thirty, forty. Fragment of an autobiography (= writings. Vol. 1. Ed. By Marius Babias , Antje Ehmann). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-223-4 .
- My nights with the left. Texts 1964–1975 (= writings. Vol. 3rd ed. By Volker Pantenburg). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-225-8 .
- I have enough!. Texts 1976–1985 (= writings . Vol. 4th ed. By Volker Pantenburg). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-96098-226-5 .
Awards
- 1995: Adolf Grimme Prize for retraining
- 2002: Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum
- 2006: Herbert Quandt Media Prize for the documentary "Not without risk"
- 2009: ARTE Documentary Award for his film "For Comparison"
- 2009: Wilhelm Loth Prize 2009
- 2012: Special prize for the Roswitha Haftmann Prize
- 2015: Special mention at the Biennale di Venezia 2015.
DVD
- 2009: Films 1967-2005 . absolutely MEDIA. ISBN 978-3-89848-969-0 . (A total of twenty films on five DVDs.)
- 2011: "Images of the World and Inscription of War" and "Postponement"
Conversations, interviews
- Tilman Baumgärtel: The small scales in favor of a big decision - Interview with Harun Farocki on the German Autumn. In: Libertad! Friends of Libertad! eV, September 16, 2011, archived from the original on September 16, 2011 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (original website no longer available).
- “Homeless at the airport. Language and Film, Film Language ”, Jungle World, November 8, 2000, No. 46, Harun Farocki in conversation with Rembert Hüser ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- Interview with Farocki in “Was war links?” , Four -part documentary series by Andreas Christoph Schmidt , part 4, art and class struggle. 2003, 4 × 60 minutes.
- “Pictures like a message in a bottle” , taz , July 1, 2008, Harun Farocki in an interview with Stefan Reinecke and Christian Semler about the Westerbork concentration camp .
- Learning from '68 means learning to see , Tagesspiegel , July 14, 2009, Harun Farocki in an interview with Patrick Wildermann.
- “I would never have done anything else” , Jungle World, No. 32, August 7, 2014, Harun Farocki in an interview with Philipp Goll about “The Chairman's Words”.
- "They call it work" , brand eins , archive 2012, Harun Farocki in an interview with Peter Laudenbach.
Exhibitions
- Sprengel Museum , Hanover: Not without risk (March 29 to August 2, 2009)
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne: Harun Farocki - exhibition and film program (October 31, 2009 to March 7, 2010)
- SEVEN SCREENS, OSRAM Art Projects , Munich: Casting around . Variation to opus 1 by Tomas Schmit (May 20 to November 21, 2010)
- Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz, Austria: Soft Montages (October 23, 2010 to January 9, 2011)
- Art-Space Pythagorion , Pythagorion, Samos Greece: Harun Farocki - Between Eye and Hand (July 20, 2012 to September 20, 2012)
- Edith-Russ-Haus , Oldenburg: Harun Farocki - Game and rules of the game (April 12, 2013 to June 9, 2013)
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich: Playtime (March 15 to June 29, 2014). Exhibited works: A New Product (2012), The Application (1997)
- Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin: Harun Farocki: Serious games. Four-part video projection (February 6, 2014 to July 13, 2014)
literature
- Peter Nau, Between Two Wars - Film protocol with 68 images. Verlag Filmkritik, Munich 1978.
- Tilman Baumgärtel : Harun Farocki - From Guerrilla Cinema to Essay Film. Work monograph by a filmmaker . b_books, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933557-06-2 , dissertation from the University of Düsseldorf
- Thomas Elsaesser: Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 9789053566350 .
- Harun Farocki and Susanne Koppensteiner (eds.): Harun Farocki, side by side. On the occasion of the exhibition Harun Farocki, Side by side at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (March 23, 2007 - June 10, 2007), König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-286-2
- Volker Pantenburg: Film as Theory. Image research with Harun Farocki and Jean-Luc Godard . transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-440-9
Web links
- Official website of Farocki with extensive filmography and bibliography
- Harun Farocki in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Harun Farocki in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Gregor Dotzauer: Harun Farocki - images that divide the world. Obituary for the filmmaker. In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 31, 2014 (accessed on February 14, 2018).
- “Phenomenology of Images” , NZZ , September 23, 2008, portrait of Bettina Spoerri
- "Build and they will come". Prison and cultural production. About Farocki and Ressler / Krenn, by Jens Kastner
- "About the role of the DFFB students in the revolt of 1967/68" , Junge welt , September 27 & 30 and October 2, 1996, by Tilman Baumgärtel
- Eight-part retrospective for the 65th birthday , 3sat , January 2009
- Literature by and about Harun Farocki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Harun Farocki in the German Digital Library
- Materials by and about Harun Farocki in the documenta archive
- Harun Farocki in the video forum of the nbk
- »It's a kind of capitalist socialism that is being drafted«, interview in Jungle World July 5, 2012
- Pictures that divide the world - obituary in the Tagesspiegel , July 31, 2014
- Harun Farocki Institute
- 'Harun Farocki. Empathy '. Exhibition | Fundació Antoni Tàpies museum, Barcelona. 2016
- Video | Conference by Antje Ehmann on 'Labor in a Single Shot' by Harun Farocki | Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona. 2016
- Scientific literature (Open Access) on Harun Farocki on mediarep.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. MacFarland & Company, Jefferson 2015, ISBN 978-0-7864-7666-4 , p. 109.
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
- ^ Text on the special screenings on Farocki's death, Max Ophüls Filmfest 2015 ( memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2015
- ↑ "Irony pisses me off" Interview with Petzold ( Memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2015
- ↑ knerger.de: Harun Farocki's grave
- ↑ Gregor Dotzauer: Harun Farocki - pictures that divide the world. Obituary for the filmmaker. In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 31, 2014 (accessed on February 14, 2018).
- ↑ Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM_Sammlung http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/meisterwerke/farocki
- ↑ "Documentation about management consultants A really radical event", Spiegel-Online, October 12, 2012, http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsleben/film-von-farocki-ueber-unternehmensberater-die-sprache-der- consultants-a-859790.html
- ↑ https://www.mathildenhoehe.eu/ausstellungen/archiv/wilhelm-loth-preis-verleihung-2009/
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 6, 2014
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Farocki, Harun |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faroqhi, Harun (real name); Mercedes, Rosa (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, documentary filmmaker and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neutitschein , Sudetenland |
DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2014 |