Irmgard von zur Mühlen

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Irmgard Helene Gertrud von zur Mühlen , née Irmgard von Tengg-Kobligk (born April 22, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German documentary filmmaker and director .

Irmgard von zur Mühlen
From left to right: Richard von Weizsäcker, Irmgard von zur Mühlen, Bengt von zur Mühlen.
Painting by Irmgard von zur Mühlen

Life

Irmgard von zur Mühlen was born in Berlin, fled with her family to Bavaria during the Second World War in 1944 and spent their youth in Aschau im Chiemgau until 1952 . Her great uncle was Erich Ludendorff . After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1956, she studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1956 to 1961 . After a six-month stay in Paris in 1961 to study at the Alliance française , she first became a trainee teacher in 1962, then a teacher at the Walther Rathenau Gymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald . In 1980 she took a leave of absence to have more time for film production. From 1990 to 2000 she was again an art teacher and senior teacher at the Walther Rathenau grammar school.

Between 1962 and 1967 she worked simultaneously as a stage and costume designer for the "Vaganten". In 1967 she worked for the first time in a documentary film production. In 1967 she married the film producer Bengt von zur Mühlen , with whom she has three children. Together with him, she built Chronos Film . Since 1979 she has been a freelance director, screenwriter, writer and painter (exhibitions in Berlin, Moscow and other cities). Your films ran a. a. at the Moscow International Film Festival , Saint Petersburg International Film Festival , Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián , repeated participation in the Berlinale and the Jerusalem Film Festival .

Awards for documentaries

She received u. a. The Golden Camera from Hörzu 1986 , “Golden Laurel” from GDR television (2 ×), the Heinz Galinski Prize (1991), “The Golden Lion” for life's work (2000) and the Federal Cross of Merit .

Filmography

Until 1990

  • 1967 Children, Pictures, Realities (15 ')
  • 1973: Battle of Berlin
  • 1979 Max Liebermann, Yesterday's Revolutionary, Today's Classic (45 ')
  • 1980 Det was Zille his Milljöh (45 ')
  • 1980 Adolph von Menzel, chronicler with pen and brush (45 ')
  • 1981 Thalia under rubble, Berlin theater of the post-war period (90 ')
  • 1982 Tradition and Change, the History of KPM (60 ')
  • 1983 bombs on Berlin. Life between fear and hope (90 ')
  • 1984 Berlin during the imperial era, splendor and shadow of an era (90 ')
  • 1984 Weltbühne Berlin, the twenties (90 ')
  • 1984 Day of Remembrance - The 40th Anniversary of July 20, 1944 (24 ')
  • 1985 The liberation of Auschwitz (60 ')
  • 1985 The Women of July 20th (70 ')
  • 1985 Berlin Zehlendorf, the green district (90 ')
  • 1986 The Children of July 20th (60 ')
  • 1986 History lesson in Israel (60 ')
  • 1987 Berlin under the swastika, the thirties (90 ')
  • 1987 Estonia on the move (60 ')
  • 1988 From Königsberg to Kaliningrad (45 ')
  • 1989 After Cranz and Rauschen (45 ')
  • 1989 On the trail of East Prussia in the Kaliningrad region (70 ')
  • 1989 Berlin under the Allies, 1945–1949 (90 ')
  • 1989 Heimat - the longing of the Volga Germans (60 ')
  • 1989 Reichsstrasse l, three episodes (ie 30 ')
  • 1990 The woman at the Brandenburg Gate, November 9, 1989 (60 ')
  • 1990 charter flight into the past, Hans Sahl (60 ')
  • 1990 The Legacy of Stauffenberg (60 ')

1991 until today

  • If you just let me play, Heinrich George (60 ')
  • A lifelong suitcase, memories from Angelika Schrobsdorff (70 ')
  • Jews from Estonia (60 ')
  • North Korea (rough cut)
  • Jews under the Red Star, Birobidshan (60 ')
  • Views from the end - deployment on the Eastern Front 1945 (90 ')
  • Death struggle of the Reich capital (90 ')
  • Homeless part I and II (e 30 ')
  • They gave their lives, General Fritz Lindemann (65 ')
  • Illegal, submerged, wanted, Ludwig von Hammerstein (60 ')
  • Because of the many murders, Detlef Schwerin von Schwanenfeldt (60 ')
  • Lennart Meri, a life for Estonia (60 ')
  • Ruin 1945, metropolis 2000 (30 ')
  • The Hitler phenomenon (60 ')
  • Struggle for survival under the swastika, Konrad Latte (60 ')
  • Curtain up - applause, Harald Juhnke (90 ')
  • East Prussia - 50 years later (90 ')
  • Theresienstadt - Deception and Reality (70 ')
  • Vacation in the Third Reich, strength through joy (60 ')
  • Every death was a deep pain to me - Harald Poelchau (60 ')
  • On to arms, men and women in World War I (60 ')
  • Empire and Republic, the post-war period (90 ')

book

  • Secret archives - restricted areas: on the trail of history with the camera (together with Bengt von zur Mühlen), Chronos, Berlin-Kleinmachnow 1995, ISBN 3-931054-04-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bombs on Berlin. Life Between Fear and Hope on YouTube
  2. ↑ Weltbühne Berlin, the 1920s on YouTube
  3. ↑ In the collection of the German Historical Museum, database entry
  4. ↑ The Liberation of Auschwitz on YouTube
  5. Jump up ↑ The Women of July 20th on YouTube
  6. ^ Holidays in the Third Reich Part 1 on YouTube
  7. ^ Holidays in the Third Reich Part 2 on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Zur Mühlen, Irmgard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zur Mühlen, Irmgard Helene Gertrud von (full name); Tengg-Kobligk, Irmgard von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin