Heiner Stadler (journalist)

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Heiner Stadler (born November 28, 1948 in Pilsting ) is a German journalist and television documentary filmmaker . Since 2004 he has been a professor at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).

Life

After graduating from high school in Straubing in 1969 , Stadler initially worked as a reporter for the Straubinger Tagblatt . From 1969 to 1971 he studied art history and newspaper studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, and from 1971 to 1975 at the HFF. Between 1976 and 1978 he had a teaching position for photography and film at the state college for art education in Munich. He then worked as a freelance cameraman, since 1982 also as a director and producer with teaching assignments at the HFF Department IV (documentary film and television journalism) and at the International Film School Cologne (ifs).

Exhibitions

In 1992 Licht & Ton (a company of CineMedia Film ) presented the solo exhibition “Filmbilder” in Munich, in 2001 the Munich Seidlvilla “Photos Films”, in 2001 the Munich Film Museum a show by Stadler, and in 2002 the Ethnological Museum Berlin also had a show. Stadler was represented at the group exhibitions "Unterwegs" 2000 in Munich's Seidlvilla, "The American Effect" in 2003 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and in 2003 at the "OP 13" series of events in Munich (Schwabinger Hinterhofkino).

In 2011, Stadler curated the exhibition Subjective together with Bernhart Schwenk at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich . Documentary film in the 21st century .

Filmography

  • 2006: Der Prospektor (documentary, 82 min .; script, direction and production; co-production with WDR and BR). Premiere : Munich Film Festival 2007
  • 2002: Eat, sleep, no women (documentary, 76 min .; script, direction and production; coproduction with WDR and BR). Shown as a German contribution to the Locarno and Montréal film festivals. Nominations : Rocky Award Banff and European Film Award
  • 2001: The Art Detective (documentary, 60 min .; script and direction; Arte, SWR, NDR; production: Cine-Impuls Berlin 1999)
  • 1999: Been in the museum ... (documentary, 18 min .; script, direction, camera and production; coproduction with the Ethnological Museum, Berlin)
  • 1998: The Desert Oracle (documentary, 54 min .; script, direction, camera and production; ZDF, TerraX, Arte)
  • 1997: Kampf um Erdöl (documentary, 45 min .; co-author, director and camera; Pro7; production: Caligari-Film, Munich)
  • 1997: Adventure Gold (documentary, 45 min .; co-author, director and camera; Pro7; production: Caligari-Film, Munich)
  • 1996: Warshots (feature film, 93 min .; book [together with H. Göckeritz], direction and production; coproduction with BR, WDR, Arte). Shown as a German contribution to the Venice Film Festival (Special Jury Award), the Mar del Plata Film Festival (Premio Mejor Ficcion), the Internacional de Cinema y Vídeo del Medi Ambiente Festival in Gavà / Barcelona (Golden Key) and the Bratislava Film Festival.
  • 1993: Hannibal (documentary, 53 min .; script, director, camera; ZDF, Arte, Discovery Channel, ORF; production: Caligari-Film, Munich)
  • 1992: The End of a Journey (documentary, 92 min .; script, direction, camera and production; co-production with WDR, BR, SDR and Arte). Awards: Bavarian Film Prize, Hessian Film Prize Merit Award. Screened at the Chicago Film Festival.
  • 1988: gold! (Fiction, 85 min .; script, direction, and production; coproduction with NDR and WDR). Shown as a German contribution at the film festival in Havana.
  • 1986: Mona (documentary series, 5 × 60 min .; script and direction; production: WDR)
  • 1984: King Kongs Faust (feature film, 85 min .; book [together with U. Enzensberger and L. Targownik], director and camera; production: Katrin Seybold-Film with NDR). Awards: Sponsorship Award, Grand Prix of the Saarbrücken Film Festival. Shown at the Sitges Film Festival
  • 1982: Albania, can you get in there? (Documentary, 45 min .; book [together with G. Stäbler], direction, camera and production; co-production with WDR)

Heiner Stadler's films have taken part in numerous festivals, including the Munich Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, the World Film Festival Montréal, the International Documentary Film Festival Beirut, and international film festivals in Toronto, Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bratislava, London and Locarno , Los Angeles, San Francisco, Gothenburg, Cairo, the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Festival Internacional de Cine in Mar del Plata, the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana, at the Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken and at the Duisburg Film Week.

Publications

  • 1991: Temporary end of a trip (cover story in: Film & TV Kameramann, Munich)
  • 1994: Hannibal, the horror of Rome (in: HC Huf (Ed.): Sphinx , Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach)
  • 1999: The desert oracle (in: G. Kirchner (Hrsg.): Terra X , Heyne Verlag, Munich)
  • 2001: Wolfgang Davis: Heiner Stadler Films . Series: FilmLand, Berlin
  • 2003: The magic of the Siwa oasis . Weltbild publishing house
  • 2005: The happy science (in: The defense of the real, 25 years AG Documentary )
  • 2006: About the cycle of images (in: A. Jürgens-Kirchhoff (Ed.): Warshots: War, Art and Media , Verlag VDG, Weimar)
  • 2007: About the cycle of images (in: Daniel Sponsel (Hrsg.): The beautiful glow of the real , Verlag UVK, Konstanz)

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personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsting