Heinz Brinkmann

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Heinz Brinkmann (born June 24, 1948 in Heringsdorf ; † April 4, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German documentary film director.

life and work

Born as the son of the precision mechanic and artisan Heinrich and the housewife Johanna Brinkmann, daughter of the architect Otto Ferdinand Saldsieder, Heinz Brinkmann attended the Maxim-Gorki-Oberschule in Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom from 1963 after the primary school in Bansin . At the machine-tractor station in Stolpe / Usedom, he learned the trade of an agricultural machinist and graduated from high school in 1967. Immediately afterwards, he started a year-long camera traineeship at the German television network in East Berlin and presented the film Mein Milieu about old Berlin streets around Alexanderplatz that had to give way to the new construction of the television tower.

From 1968 to 1972 he studied camera at the German Academy for Film Art "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg and graduated with a diploma.

From 1972 to 1973 he worked as a scientific and artistic teaching assistant at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in the field of directing and then until 1976 as a lecturer for camera. In 1975 he received the directing diploma. From 1975 to 1983 Heinz Brinkmann worked as a freelance director, author and cameraman for the DEFA weekly show Der Augenzeuge . In 1976 he sat in on Benno Besson's production of Die Hamletmaschine at the Volksbühne Berlin .

In November 1976, Heinz Brinkmann was one of the signatories of the petition against the expulsion of Wolf Biermann .

Egon Schlegel brought him in 1977 as an assistant director for the production of the DEFA feature film The Horse Girl . In 1977 and 1978 Brinkmann also assisted at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Thomas Langhoff's production “Midsummer Night's Dream”. From 1983 to 1991 Heinz Brinkmann worked as a director in the DEFA studio for documentary films , a. a. also for the DEFA-Kinobox series .

From 1991 Heinz Brinkmann worked as a freelance director and author. He was one of the co-founders of the Mecklenburg / Vorpommern Film eV and the Schweriner FilmKunstFestes in 1990/1991. From 1991 to 2006 Brinkmann acted as chairman of the Mecklenburg / Vorpommern Film eV In this capacity, he worked as a co-builder of the film and video workshops in the Landesfilmzentrum Schwerin and the film and media center in Wismar . From 2002 to 2004, Heinz Brinkmann was the project manager of Xenos Media Mecklenburg / Vorpommern and, as a lecturer, did media pedagogical work for students, teachers and social workers.

Heinz Brinkmann's films were shown at many festivals, including in Leipzig , Berlin , Solothurn , Marseille , Munich , Schwerin, Bombay , Lübeck and Bornholm . His film Usedom - The Unobstructed Sea View was part of the Berlinale Special program at the Berlin International Film Festival 2018 .

On June 24, 2018, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Heinz Brinkmann was awarded the honorary citizenship of the Baltic Sea resort of Heringsdorf for his cinematic life's work. On July 2, 2018, the DEFA Foundation presented a selection of his documentary work in the arsenal cinema in Berlin .

Heinz Brinkmann found his final resting place on May 20, 2019 in the cemetery of the Baltic resort of Heringsdorf .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: Weavers (camera)
  • 1973: Moment musical (camera / director), with Karl Heinz Lotz
  • 1974: Everyday life with resistance
  • 1983: Our symbol is the sun (together with Johanna Kleberg, Rolf Schnabel, Günther Seigewasser, Horst Winter, Günter Wittenbecher, Werner Desert)
  • 1984: On the power of the song - decisions in the life of the composer Eberhardt Schmidt
  • 1985: DEFA-Kinobox 45/1985 - Otto Niemeyer Holstein
  • 1986: Kerschowski - Views of a rock singer
  • 1987: Miss election
  • 1987: DEFA-Kinobox 57/1987 - Ostseebox
  • 1988: The carbide factory
  • 1989: Sellin photographer
  • 1990: I don't see the sun here yet
  • 1990: forward and back
  • 1990: Come to the garden (with Jochen Wisotzki)
  • 1991: Waldschlösschen
  • 1991: The last racking
  • 1992: The field is on fire (with Rainer Ackermann / Karl Heinz Lotz )
  • 1992: Moment musical 92 (with Karl Heinz Lotz)
  • 1992: The preliminary life of Count Kiedorf
  • 1993: Rossewitz Castle
  • 1993: Usedom. A German island life, part 1
  • 1993: Hello, how are you? (with Günter Gaus )
  • 1994: The maze
  • 1995: Horno and elsewhere
  • 1997: End of the line ...? - Young people in prison
  • 1997: The Consecration of the Wicked Children
  • 1997: Act (s) Peenemünde
  • 1998: The mare on the grass roof. German emigrants in Chile
  • 2003: Behind the mountains. A homeland film
  • 2004: Peenemünde. Images of a monument landscape
  • 2005: island light. Usedomer Pictures
  • 2005: Operation Revival. Trapped in the Barther Bodden
  • 2006: The Wartburg story. From dream car to cult car (with Heiner Sylvester )

Awards

Quote

“'Come to the garden' was the name of the work of the directors Heinz Brinkmann and Jochen Wisotzki, which was characterized by playful pleasure and subversive humor, and which came out in autumn 1989 at just the right time to turn the coming out of those humiliated and insulted by the system into a cinematic Signal to help. Three outcasts of GDR socialism, as a journalist, as a philosopher and as a painter, failed, but precisely because of this remained true to themselves, show their life situation in agreed-upon situations and thus convey the protest mood of that time in a very personal way. "

- Hans-Jörg Rother : The survivors and the dead - East German documentary filmmakers discover what really socialist did not exist: the soul in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 21, 1994, p. 38

“On July 15, 1988 'Die Karbidfabrik' - without the incriminated three words - was approved by the state, the Progress-Film-Verleih ordered fifteen copies, one for each GDR district. The film is shown at festivals in Neubrandenburg and Leipzig and will be discussed in a special screening in front of officers of the GDR Ministry of Defense in Strausberg. They praise his honesty and take this opportunity to complain about outdated military technology and a lack of investment. From the beginning of 1989 'Die Karbidfabrik' should be officially shown in the cinema. But suddenly the general manager of Buna appears again, now with ice-cold feet. Before a performance in the almost empty Kulturhaus in Schkopau, he instructed his subordinates to resolutely defend themselves against the film. Almost everything bothers him now, especially the sentence from the mouth of a worker: 'We are happy when we come home healthy again.' With something like that, the Defa team dig 'the starting holes for the counter-revolution'. "

- Ralf Schenk : carbide and rhubarb juice in: Berliner Zeitung of April 4, 2018, UNTERM strich / SCHNITTE, p. 21

Specialist publication

  • The white stork, Ciconia c. ciconia L., on the island of Usedom - Contributions to food and breeding ecology, Part 1: Results of the stork census 1962–1966 , with three illustrations, co-author: Axel Kramer, Contributions to ornithology, Leipzig 1973, issue 19, p. 17-35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Schenk : Tender stories: To the death of the documentarist Heinz Brinkmann. Berliner Zeitung , April 5, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Over a hundred signatures: The open letter on Wolf Biermann. In: Die Zeit 50/1976. December 3, 1976, Retrieved April 6, 2019 . Settlement with the Stasi regime . In: Der Spiegel . No.
     13 , 1996, pp. 58-76 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Heinz Brinkmann made an honorary citizen. In: Imperial Baths-Bote 7/2018. Municipality of Ostseebad Heringsdorf, July 18, 2018, p. 10 , accessed on April 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Arsenal: Documentaries by Heinz Brinkmann. (No longer available online.) DEFA Foundation , archived from the original on July 17, 2018 ; accessed on April 6, 2019 . 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
  5. ↑ Private obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from 27./28. April 2019, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of documentaries
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Heringsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th April 2019
Place of death Berlin