Heiner Carow

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Heiner Carow (left), 1988; right: Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Heiner (Heinrich) Carow (born September 19, 1929 in Rostock ; † January 31, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German director and vice-president of the GDR Academy of Arts and a member of the West Berlin Academy of Arts .

Life

Carow was a son of the businessman Ernst Carow († 1945). He graduated from high school in Rostock with the later writer Herbert Nachbar and attended the directing class in the DEFA young talent studio under Slatan Dudow and Gerhard Klein from 1950 to 1952 . His first film as a director was made in 1952 under the title Farmers Fulfill the Plan . After 1952 Carow worked in the DEFA studio for popular science films. There he wrote scripts and made ten short documentaries, such as B. City on the Coast (1955). Since 1957 he was a director at DEFA. In 1959 he became a member of the “Berlin” group headed by Slatan Dudow. He first made films for children and young people like you called him Amigo (1959) based on a screenplay by Wera and Claus Küchenmeister and the Benno Pludra films Sheriff Teddy (1957), Everyone Has His Story (1965) and The Journey to Sundevit (1966 ). His project, The Russians Come , shot in 1968 , could only be performed in 1971 in a watered-down version with an additional current plot called career ; A copy of an earlier cut version was saved by Carow's wife, film editor Evelyn Carow , and had its world premiere in December 1987.

In the 1970s Carow made several successful contemporary films, including Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973), which achieved cult status in the GDR, and Ikarus (1975) about the life of a divorced child, whom Carow himself described as his best film. After Until Death Do You Part (1978) he worked on several projects that could not be realized. These included a film adaptation of Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus based on a scenario by Franz Fühmann that had been planned since 1964 , which was too expensive for the DEFA management, and the rock opera Paule Panke , written in collaboration with the dramaturges Erika and Rolf Richter and the band Pankow , at the among other things, a disagreeable GDR State Secretary and a gay minor character bothers. It wasn't until 1986 that he was able to finish another film with So many dreams . Like his two most recent DEFA projects Coming Out (1989) and Die Verfehlung (1991), it was created in collaboration with Erika Richter and the scenario artist Wolfram Witt .

Carow became a member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR in 1978, of which he was vice-president from 1982 to 1991, and in 1984 a member of the West Berlin Academy of the Arts. After 1991 he mainly worked for television. In 1996 he became director of the film and media art department at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Arts.

Carow in 1959 and 1967 with the Heinrich Greif Prize , 1980 with the National Prize in 1988 for The Russians are coming with the best director award at the 5th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR , 1989 with the German Critics Award and 1990 for the film coming out with the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1990 , the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Academy of the Arts and again the directing prize at the National Feature Film Festival of the GDR in 1990.

Heiner Carow was married to Evelyn Carow since 1954. The marriage has two children. His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Heiner Carow died at the age of 67 and found his resting place in the Goethe cemetery in the largest Potsdam district of Babelsberg .

Heiner Carow Prize

The Heiner Carow Prize is named after Heiner Carow. It has been awarded by the DEFA Foundation as part of the Berlinale since 2013 and honors a feature or documentary film from the Panorama section .

Filmography

theatre

literature

Web links

Commons : Heiner Carow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Carow biography. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on December 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Trace of the Films: Contemporary Witnesses on DEFA ; Ed .: Ingrid Poss, Peter Warnecke
  3. ↑ Heiner Carow Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
  4. ^ The grave of Heiner Carow. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Heiner Carow Prize on the DEFA Foundation website ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.defa-stiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Carow, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carow, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1997
Place of death Berlin