Henning Burk
Henning Burk (born September 30, 1945 in Braunau am Inn ) is a German director and screenwriter on cultural and contemporary topics.
life and work
Burk spent his childhood in Bad Nauheim and his youth in Hinterzarten in the Black Forest . At the local Birklehof school he did his humanistic Abitur. One of his classmates was Tom Koenigs . He studied in Munich and Vienna majoring in theater studies . In 1973 he was awarded a doctorate in Vienna for his work “Psychoanalysis and Theater”. phil. PhD.
After completing his studies, Burk started working as a writer and director in 1974, initially for WDR and then for other public broadcasters. In 1978 he delivered his first major work for the WDR with Die gemeingefahrlichen aspirations der Sozialdemokratie - 100 Years of the Socialist Law , a 45-minute film made together with Detlev Puls and Cora Stephan . In 1982 he was the director and, with Klaus Trebes, screenwriter of the 80-minute film The Flying Robert , in which Joschka Fischer also played alongside Trebes and the music was written by Frank Wolff . In 2002 he portrayed the robbery of the Jewish population in the Hessian province in a 45-minute television film for HR entitled The Great Robbery - How the Jews were plundered in Hesse .
Burk has been a permanent freelancer at Hessischer Rundfunk since 1989 , for whom he also shot numerous contributions and features for magazine programs such as "ttt", "Hauptsache Kultur", "horizonte" (HR) and "Kulturzeit" (3sat). He has lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main since 1975 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning Burk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henning Burk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography on ARD
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full title: Psychoanalysis and Theater. The relationship between psychoanalysis and theater developed from the relationship between theater and myth, illustrated using the example of Sophoclean Oedipus and Artaud's theater concept , Vienna, 1973
- ↑ Achim Klünder: Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of television plays in German speaking Europe. 1978/87 , Walter de Gruyter, Munich, 1991 ISBN 978-3-11-141194-1 , p. 176
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burk, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film and television director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunau am Inn |