Heiko R. Blum

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Heiko Robert Blum (mostly Heiko R. Blum ; born October 26, 1935 in Jena ; † March 27, 2011 in Cologne ) was a German film critic and author .

Life

Heiko Robert Blum - his middle name is reminiscent of his great-great-grandfather Robert Blum - grew up in Würzburg , where he did an internship at the Würzburger Volksblatt after graduating from high school . An eight-year medical degree followed , including in Vienna and Erlangen . He was also involved in the student theater in Frankfurt am Main , where he met Sigrid Schmitt (1939–2018), his future wife, and in the German film club movement .

Blum finally decided to work as a journalist and turned his passion for film into a profession. From 1955 he wrote as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Spiegel and for radio and television, including the Hessischer Rundfunk , the WDR and the Swiss radio DRS . Blum was a film critic for the Rheinische Post for more than 30 years . He was a long-time member of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk) .

Heiko R. Blum lived with his wife Sigrid in Cologne - Nippes for several decades . Their daughter Katharina Blum was born in Cologne in 1966 - Heinrich Böll later used her name for his story The lost honor of Katharina Blum .

Primarily for the Heyne Filmbibliothek series , he wrote biographies about Götz George , Mario Adorf , Manfred Krug , Klaus Maria Brandauer , Senta Berger and Michel Piccoli , partly together with his wife and daughter and other co-authors . Heiko R. Blum is also the creator of a number of television documentaries, including games you want everything - Götz George (1989) and Mario Adorf - from the Eifel to the wide world (1991/92).

Blum Tomb (September 2018)

For decades, Blum oversaw the Würzburg International Film Weekend, which was founded in 1973 . He also worked in the adult education sector in the field of educational policy and organized, among other things, the traveling exhibition Jugend im Kino (1985 and 1995). During the Berlinale reception in 2004 , he fell so unhappily that from then on he was dependent on a wheelchair.

In 2006 the journalist was awarded the Herbert Strate Prize by the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation and the Main Association of German Film Theaters for his services to German film .

After a long and serious illness, Heiko R. Blum died on March 27, 2011 at the age of 75 in Cologne. He found his final resting place in the Melaten cemetery there (hall 34).

His extensive collection of texts and images on cinema and film - including around 150,000 photographs - was initially part of the “Private Archive for Film Studies”, but was then transferred to the Düsseldorf Film Museum as the Heiko R. Blum Collection .

Fonts

  • as co-author: Film in the GDR . (= Volume 13 of the Film series). Hanser, Munich and Vienna 1977 ( ISBN 3-446-12453-5 ).
  • Götz George . His films - his life . (= Heyne Film Library No. 103). Heyne, Munich 1989 (4th, updated edition 1998 as No. 206 of the Heyne film library under the title Götz George - the lovable Rauhbein , ISBN 3-453-08120-X ).
  • together with Meinolf Zurhorst : Mario Adorf . His films - his life . (= Heyne Film Library No. 176). Heyne, Munich 1992 ( ISBN 3-453-05972-7 ).
  • Michel Piccoli . His films - his life . (= Heyne Film Library No. 178). Heyne, Munich 1993 ( ISBN 3-453-05974-3 ).
  • Manfred Krug . His films - his life . (= Heyne Film Library No. 186). Heyne, Munich 1993 ( ISBN 3-453-06549-2 ).
  • together with Sigrid Schmitt et al .: Klaus Maria Brandauer - actor and director . (= Heyne Film Library No. 235). Heyne, Munich 1996 ( ISBN 3-453-09406-9 ).
  • together with Katharina Blum and Sigrid Schmitt: Faces of the new German film . Parthas, Berlin 1997 (1999 then as No. 265 in the Heyne-Filmbibliothek, Munich; ISBN 3-453-14577-1 ).
  • Senta Berger - with charm and power . Heyne, Munich 2001 ( ISBN 3-453-19442-X ).
  • My second home, Hollywood. German-speaking film artist in the USA . With the collaboration of Sigrid Schmitt and Katharina Blum. Henschel, Berlin 2001 ( ISBN 3-89487-401-5 ).
  • Götz George. Profession: actor . With the collaboration of Sigrid Schmitt. Henschel, Berlin 2003 ( ISBN 3-89487-457-0 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at Find a Grave ; Retrieved October 25, 2014
  2. ^ A b Günter Mick: Stars in the Paulskirche: "Failed and excessive". The great-great-grandchildren of Gagern and Blum . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung No. 13/1998 of March 29, 1998, p. 3
  3. ↑ a b c d e Obituary of the Association of German Film Critics by Rolf-Ruediger Hamacher ; accessed on November 23, 2014
  4. ↑ -aro-: Second home cinema. On the death of Heiko R. Blum . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 76/2011 of March 31, 2011, p. 33
  5. ↑ a b short biography near Cologne in the film ; accessed on November 23, 2014
  6. ↑ Information on the winners at filmherbst-nrw.de; Retrieved October 25, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Heiko R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Heiko Robert (full name); Blum, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2011
Place of death Cologne