Herwig Kipping

Herwig Kipping (born March 31, 1948 in Meyhen ) is a German feature film director and screenwriter .

Kipping studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1968 to 1972 . During this time he began to read the poets Georg Heym , Georg Trakl , Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Verlaine , Charles Baudelaire , Dostojewski and, above all, Friedrich Nietzsche , and to write intensively himself. He gave up mathematics and wanted only one thing: to become a poet. So he came to film, to television in the GDR. As a trainee in dramatic art, Herwig Kipping was assistant director to Thomas Langhoff . Although he was not delegated to study at the University of Film and Television, but was the only one who passed the entrance exam, he studied directing at the University of Film and Television Potsdam from 1978 to 1982 . His second documentary exercise, "Bahnpostfahrer", caused a sensation.

He is counted among the last generation of DEFA directors and was considered unlawful in GDR times, which ultimately led to his expulsion from the SED and robbed him of the opportunity to realize film projects. In 1986 he became a student of Heiner Carow at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, some film projects were funded by him. Worth mentioning are The Land Behind the Rainbow from 1991, for which he was awarded the silver film ribbon at the 1992 Federal Film Prize.

Filmography

• 1979: Rail mail driver
• 1979: the ball
• 1979: Garbage truck 27
• 1979: Week End
• 1981: The Mist Gorge
• 1983: Homage to Hölderlin
• 1983: Karl Stülpner or The Dream of Flying
• 1984: Six on the roof
• 1989: love, sex and drugs
• 1989: suicide
• 1991: The land behind the rainbow
• 1993: Novalis - The blue flower

literature

• Short biography for:  Kipping, Herwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Herwig Kipping in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• www.defa-stiftung.de