Harun Farocki

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Harun Farocki in Moscow, 2013

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.

tomb

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)

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

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

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

Web links

Commons : Harun Farocki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harris M. Lentz III: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. MacFarland & Company, Jefferson 2015, ISBN 978-0-7864-7666-4 , p. 109.
  2. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
  4. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Filmmaker Harun Farocki dies (accessed on July 31, 2014)
  5. ^ 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
  6. ↑ "Irony pisses me off" Interview with Petzold ( Memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2015
  7. ↑ knerger.de: Harun Farocki's grave
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM_Sammlung http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/meisterwerke/farocki
  10. ↑ "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
  11. ↑ https://www.mathildenhoehe.eu/ausstellungen/archiv/wilhelm-loth-preis-verleihung-2009/
  12. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 6, 2014
personal data
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