Horst Schier

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Horst Schier (born February 9, 1938 in Reichenbach , † February 28, 1998 in Imperia , Italy ) was a German cameraman , film producer , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Schier grew up in the GDR , where he trained as a cameraman at the Babelsberg film school in the late 1950s . When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, Schier was already in the Federal Republic of Germany and got his first verifiable job as a cameraman for trick photography for Helmut Käutner's The Dream of Lieschen Müller . Two years later he was allowed to work for the first time as chief cameraman for Ottokar Runze's television film Das Echo . Schier temporarily returned to special effects photography in the fall of 1966 when he worked on the first Jerry Cotton color film production, The Brooklyn Killer Club .

At that time, Horst Schier was already a sought-after cameraman for television series. He photographed our Pauker, country doctor Dr. Brock , Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi , The Lawyer , several Tatort episodes from the 1970s, The Defiant Head , Master Eder and his Pumuckl , Three ladies from the grill and, immediately before his surprising death in Italy, Pumuckl's adventure . Schier has also been behind the camera in a number of cinema and television films, including the first Pumuckl film from 1981 starring Gustl Bayrhammer and Frank Ripploh's gay drama Taxi zum Klo . In the 1980s he and Laurens Straub owned the joint production company Schier-Straub Filmproduktion (Munich) with which he produced several late elaborates for the young filmmaker generation (e.g. Rita Ritter and Ein Mann wie EVA ). Schier's excursions into film directing are limited to a few entertainment films, mostly made for television, and several documentaries.

Filmography

as chief cameraman unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Camera Guide 94th yearbook of the BVK Bundesverband Kamera e. V., p. 188
  • Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume p. 160

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personal data
SURNAME Schier, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, film producer, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1998
Place of death Imperia , Italy