Heiner Sylvester

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Heiner Sylvester (* 1944 in Thuringia ) is a German documentary filmmaker, director, cameraman and editor.

Life

Sylvester studied at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film School. He then worked as a freelance writer, cameraman and director in the DEFA documentary film studio in Berlin and for GDR television.

In 1976 he protested against Wolf Biermann's expatriation . State pressure restricted his activities for DEFA and other television producers. In 1983 he submitted an application to leave the country, which was approved in the spring of 1984. In doing so, he smuggled film material from the GDR into the West, which was included in the film “Der Weg aus derorder”. He moved with his family to Hamburg, where he continued to work as a director and producer.

In the post-reunification period, Sylvester continued to focus on filming, but also as the editor of documentary literature on the history of the GDR, especially the fate of dissidents. In 1996 he moved his film production company “Transfer-Film” to “Haus Clara”. His films have been shown on television, at festivals and at special events such as B. shown in memorials such as the memorial library in honor of the victims of communism .

Sylvester's entire oeuvre includes more than 80 films.

Heiner Sylvester has been a member of the Evangelical Brotherhood of St. George since 2005 .

Sylvester had been friends with Einar Schleef since the mid-1970s ; the film "Never Go Back" is dedicated to the theater producer.

Filmography

  • 1976: Rosenthaler Straße 51 (documentary) (screenplay and camera)
  • 1980: yesterday's film (documentary, camera)
  • 1985: The Way Out of Order (Documentary)
  • 1991: The meeting
  • 1991: Clara Mosch or the creative decomposition
  • 1994: never going back
  • 1999: Railway stations renaissance
  • 1999: On a Wednesday in Weimar
  • 2004: Behind the mountains
  • 2013: Der Trabant (co-director)
  • Delusion and method - writer and Stasi

Books

  • “We just wanted to live differently. Memories of Political Prisoners in Cottbus Prison ”, 2013 ISBN 978-3-00-044179-0
  • “Never go back. Jürgen K. Hultenreich reads prose and poetry ", (accompanying films)

Awards

  • Bavarian TV Prize, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Long farewell . In: Der Spiegel . No.  6 , 1985, pp. 183-186 ( Online - Feb. 4, 1985 ).
  2. ↑ http://www.kjk-muenchen.de/archiv/index.php?id=1480
  3. ↑ http://gedenkbibliothek.de/?mid=veranstaltungsarchiv
  4. ↑ a b http://www.galerieparterre.de/eventarchiv.php?id=30
  5. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article136100/Das-Schwert-des-Ordens-im-Kerzenlicht.html
  6. ↑ https://www.adk.de/de/programm/index.htm?we_objectID=31756
  7. ↑ https://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=personnr&wert=6895
personal data
SURNAME New Year's Eve, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker, director, cameraman and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuringia