Ingrid Reschke
Ingrid Reschke , née Meyer (born March 13, 1936 , † May 5, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German film director.
Life
Ingrid Reschke studied directing at the German Academy of Film in Babelsberg from 1959 to 1963 . She then worked as an assistant director at the DEFA studio for feature films and was able to make her first feature film in 1963: The children's film Daniel and the World Champion was based on a book by Wera and Claus Küchenmeister .
Next came the entertaining contemporary film We let us divorce (1968) with Dieter Wien and Monika Gabriel in the leading roles. Another children's film followed in 1969, The Santa Claus Is Willi , in which Rolf Herricht embodies the thieving Santa Claus Willi and Jiří Vršťala appears as the clown Ferdinand .
Your most successful film was Do you know Urban? (1971). The script she wrote together with Ulrich Plenzdorf was based on the columns by Gisela Karau in the BZ in the evening . Reschke and Plenzdorf were awarded the Heinrich Greif Prize and the FDGB Art Prize for this film .
Then she works with Ulrich Plenzdorf on the script for Die Legende von Paul und Paula . But she could not finish her work, she died in early May 1971 as a result of a car accident on April 24, 1971 on the motorway slip road in Berlin-Grünau near the street Am Falkenberg.
In the 1960s she was one of the few feature film directors in the GDR alongside Bärbl Bergmann and Ingrid Sander, who worked for television .
Ingrid Reschke found her final resting place in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde central cemetery .
Filmography
Script:
- 1965: Nothing but Sin - Director: Hanuš Burger
Director:
- 1963: Daniel and the world champion
- 1968: We're getting divorced - also screenplay (with Rudi Strahl , Kurt Belicke )
- 1969: Santa's name is Willi - also screenplay (with Ota Hofman , Inge Desert-Heym )
- 1971: do you know Urban? - also script (with Ulrich Plenzdorf )
Web links
- Ingrid Reschke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ingrid Reschke at filmportal.de
- Biography on defa-stiftung.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 26, 1971, p. 3
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 6, 1971, p. 12
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reschke, Ingrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Ingrid (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th May 1971 |
| Place of death | near Potsdam |