Horst Koenigstein

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Horst Königstein (born July 26, 1945 in Bremen ; † May 12, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German television and theater director , screenwriter and copywriter .

biography

Königstein grave site in Hamburg

Königstein grew up in Bremen- Gröpelingen as the son of a grocer couple. He passed his Abitur in Bremen at the Gymnasium am Waller Ring and wrote film reviews as a schoolboy and worked as an usher. He studied pedagogy and sociology in Bremen and Hamburg and worked as an editor at Radio Bremen and later at NDR , was a professor at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne and a member of the Federal Association of Directing . He was best known for his collaboration with Heinrich Breloer . For the joint television film The Manns - A novel of the century , he received the Grimme Prize, among other things. He also wrote the script for the docu-drama Speer und Er together with Heinrich Breloer .

At the Thalia Theater in Hamburg he directed Mein Jahrhundert by Günter Grass and at the Kammerspiele nights with Joan , Mr. Peters Connections ; at the St. Pauli Theater Six dance lessons in six weeks .

Königstein's work as a television director includes the films Jud Suss - a film as a crime , propaganda and liana .

In 2002, he and Heinrich Breloer won the Golden Romy for Die Manns - A novel of the century . He also made a film about the ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and his hometown Liverpool . This was called Ringo and the city at the end of the rainbow and appeared in 1977 in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Königstein wrote German adaptations for the British musician Peter Gabriel for two of his untitled solo albums (1980 and 1982), which Gabriel published both in his mother tongue and in German (then under the names Ein deutsches Album and Deutsches Album ). He also transferred the single title Here Comes The Flood for Gabriel to the German language. This title comes from Peter Gabriel's first record from 1977 and appeared in 1980 in the German version on the B-side of the single Biko . In Königstein's film Haus Vaterland (ARD, 1980), Peter Gabriel plays and sings, Now comes the flood on the piano. Königstein a. a. for Udo Lindenberg .

He was also responsible as an editor for many television programs and productions of the NDR. In 2010 he ended his full-time job as an editor at NDR. In the last years of his life he suffered from Parkinson's .

Filmography (selection)

As a screenwriter

As a director

  • 1982: truck war
  • 1982: The Wandsbek hatchet
  • 1987: Imperial capital - private
  • 1989: Hard Days - Hard Nights
  • 1991: Gütt - a journalist
  • 1994: The man in the black coat
  • 1995: Big friends
  • 1997: Musical "Elixier" (by Tobias Künzel and Künzel's wife Kati Naumann) in Leipzig
  • 1998: Nights with Joan
  • 2001: Jud Süß - A film as a crime?
  • 2001: On the way to the Mann family
  • 2003: The trustee
  • 2004: propaganda
  • 2009: The trustee

As a producer

Awards

  • 1983: Special prize from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Adolf Grimme Prize for the hatchet from Wandsbek (together with Heinrich Breloer )
  • 1984: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for you are my mother (together with Jacob Admiraal )
  • 1993: Special award for script and research on Hamburger Poison at the Baden-Baden days of television play
  • 1993: Special honor at the Adolf Grimme Prize
  • 1997: Special award for documentary TV film at the Golden Lion (RTL) for death game
  • 2000: Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for Die Beste Party - Heimatabend 1999
  • 2002: Winner of the Adolf Grimme Prize in Gold for Die Manns - A novel of the century
  • 2002: Special prize for Die Manns - A novel of the century at the German Television Prize
  • 2002: Special prize for Die Manns - A novel of the century at the Bavarian TV Prize
  • 2002: Winner of the Golden Nymph at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo for Die Manns - A novel of the century

literature

  • Christian Hißnauer, Bernd Schmidt: milestones of television documentarism: the Hamburg schools . UVK, Konstanz 2013.
  • Christian Hißnauer, Joanna Jambor, Bernd Schmidt: Horst Königstein. An inventive cross-border commuter. Online publication NDR [1] and [2] , 2011.
  • Joanna Jambor, Christian Hißnauer, Bernd Schmidt: Horst Königstein: Daring TV game. A consideration in the spectrum of traditional and current forms . In: Christian Hißnauer (Hrsg.): The West German television game of the 1960s and 1970s . Special issue 3–4 / 2011 of the magazine Rundfunk und Geschichte, pp. 60–75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mourning the filmmaker Horst Königstein. In: Rheinische Post , May 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.fr.de/kultur/nachruf-auf-horst-koenigstein-mehr-als-der-mann-hinter-breloer-a-703117
  3. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/zum-tod-von-horst-koenigstein-der-alleskoenner-des-fernsehens-12181541.html
  4. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. p. 263.
personal data
SURNAME Koenigstein, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2013
Place of death Hamburg