Ivo Bulanda

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Ivo Bulanda (born October 23, 1932 - February 14, 2016 ) was a German documentary filmmaker and photographer .

Life

Ivo Bulanda studied singing and piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music and then discovered photography in the late 1950s. He first became known through a photo that showed the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler in tailcoat and underpants, and later through the fact that he managed to attract famous world stars with charm and a certain audacity. B. Brigitte Bardot , Sophia Loren , Gina Lollobrigida or Curd Jürgens with products such as glasses, watches or beer in front of the camera. A successful “advertising coup” was that he succeeded in photographing automobile tycoon Henry Ford II with an NSU Quickly .

  • Brigitte Bardot

  • Curd Juergens

  • Sophia Loren

  • Gina Lollobrigida

Advertising flyer with Sophia Loren , Herbert von Karajan , Conny Froboess , Henry Ford II , Germaine Damar , Carl Zuckmayer , Brigitte Bardot

He later turned to moving images and made numerous films for ARD, ZDF and various industrial companies. Several racing films and documentaries about the development of types such as the Boxster and Cayenne were made for Porsche in particular . Together with the author and director Reinhard Eichelbeck , Bulanda shot documentaries and series for NDR and ZDF. With WDR editor Wolfgang Korruhn , he produced over a hundred interviews with celebrities such as Konstantin Wecker , Ernst Fuchs , Rolf Hochhuth , Niki Lauda , Erich von Däniken , Yehudi Menuhin , Hans Hass , Robert Jungk , Kurt Waldheim , Wolfgang Neuss for the ZAK series , Konrad Kujau , Frederic Vester , Elfriede Jelinek , Jörg Haider , Otto von Habsburg , Götz George , Klaus Maria Brandauer , Wolfgang Wagner , Egon Krenz , Rainer Barzel , Karlheinz Böhm , Stefan Heym , Gregor Gysi , Björn Engholm , Hildegard Knef , Beate Uhse , Johannes Dyba , Golo Mann and others.

Ivo Bulanda lived with his wife Ly (Ottilie), who accompanied him as an assistant on his film trips, in Beilstein , Baden-Württemberg , until his death . He died on February 14, 2016.

Awards

  • For the television version (ZDF) of the Boxster development, he received the German Business Film Prize in 1998.

Filmography

In addition to numerous contributions for the series ZAK , Telelexikon and Die Erde, der Himmel and the things in-between as well as contributions for the series Insight and some for the ZDF series Witnesses of the Century ( Manfred von Ardenne , Schalom Ben-Chorin , Heinrich Harrer ), The 4 Seasons (long-term documentary about the sculptor Woytek) the following documentaries were made under his hand:

  • In the beginning there was the reading stone
  • Making the invisible visible
  • Wings for the eyes
  • The gem from the sea
  • Platinum - more than just small silver
  • The last Sunday in April (portrait of the racing driver Rolf Stommelen )
  • Better foul than fair? Violence in sport
  • Men Report (portrait of the painter Manfred Deix )
  • Database cosmos
  • Making the stones speak (portrait of the sculptor Karl Prantl )
  • Muesli perks you up (film about Willi Dungl and his nutritional principles)
  • Ars Erotica (portrait of the painter Manfred Scharpf)
  • "See you every 10–15 years" (portrait of the pianist Friedrich Gulda with HC Artmann and Ernst Fuchs )
  • Porsche: Team - Technology - Timing (The Development of the Boxster / German Business Film Prize 1998)
  • Aston Martin - high tech and legend

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personal data
SURNAME Bulanda, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1932
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2016