Horst Burbulla
Horst Burbulla (* 1959 in Poland ) is a German inventor and entrepreneur .
Life and work
Burbulla was born in Poland and came to Bonn with his family at the age of seven . In the early 1980s he made his first film, Liebe und Tod , in Bonn and Iceland . The North Rhine-Westphalian film subsidy supported the film with 100,000 DM , which was not enough to rent a flexibly mobile camera. Burbulla built its own model that combined a camera crane system with a telescope mechanism. In 1982 he founded the Orion company . The film Love and Death was shown at the Locarno International Film Festival , but Burbulla attracted more attention with its new invention, which Technovision London presented for the first time in 1986 at a trade fair, the Photokina in Cologne. He was able to sell a copy of his crane to a Roman film company for DM 35,000. In the same year, his camera crane was used for the film Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit and achieved its international breakthrough.
Initially, Burbulla in London was financed by Technovision, where he manufactured the parts for his cranes on their behalf. After the turnaround in Eastern Europe, he moved the business to Pilsen in the Czech Republic in 1990 , where the company now employs 60 people and has a turnover of several million euros. Burbulla's telescopic cranes brought new possibilities for the use of camera cranes for film and television recordings. The technology is particularly needed for complicated tracking shots in action films . For his invention Burbulla 2005 received the Oscar in the category Technology ( Academy Award of Merit , Class I). The laudation was given by actress Scarlett Johansson . Currently, Burbulla's crane is used, among other things, for the filming of Avatar 2 by James Cameron .
Burbulla is currently planning the construction of an event tower called Aire on the edge of Bonn's Rheinaue . To implement this, Burbulla has set up a showroom and launched a referendum. The architectural project is controversial.
literature
- Charles Hewitt: crane wars ( memento of August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: Eyepiece , February 2001, pp. 2-3.
Web links
- Horst Burbulla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Technical Oscar for the German Horst Burbulla ( Memento of 16 February 2007 at the Internet Archive ) on 3sat .com of 10 February 2005
- Sibylle Korte: German Oscar winner builds camera cranes in Pilsen ( memento from April 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on radio.cz from February 21, 2005
- Hollywood in Poppelsdorf: The story of the entrepreneur Horst Burbulla , West ART magazine of the WDR , February 24, 2015
- Camera crane: United States Patent 6776488 , United States Patent Application 20030076480
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brad Brevet: German gets technology Oscar. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
- ^ Scarlett Johansson to Host Academy's Sci-Tech Awards. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Schultz: Oscar star is planning the absolute mega thing. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burbulla, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German inventor and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |