Jörg Foth

Jörg Foth (born October 31, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German film director and actor.

Life

Foth finished school in 1968 with the Abitur and the skilled worker certificate as a cook. From 1968 to 1971 he completed his military service as a ship radio operator with the Volksmarine and from 1971 to 1972 worked as a volunteer for television in the GDR. Until 1977 he studied directing at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" , which he finished with the diploma film process . After completing his studies, Foth worked as an assistant director at DEFA and worked with Ulrich Weiß on the Indian film Blauvogel . His first directorial work for a feature film was the children's film Das Eismeer calls in 1984 , based on the story of the same name by Alex Wedding .

From 1984 Foth was permanently employed as a young director at DEFA, but it wasn't until 1989 that work on his second feature film Biology! which was completed in 1990. Since various film projects were rejected in the meantime, Foth worked, among other things, as an assistant director, actor and realized short documentaries. He directed the German-Vietnamese co-production Dschungelzeit alongside Tran Vu.

In 1990, Foth was given a permanent position as a director at DEFA, from which he was dismissed in the same year as the DEFA was wound up. Since 1990 Foth has been working as a freelance director, author and dramaturge for documentary films, television, radio and theater.

Foth is married, the marriage has two daughters. He lives in Berlin.

Filmography

• 1979: Blauvogel (as assistant director, actor)
• 1979: Addio, piccola mia (as an actor)
• 1980: The betrothed (as assistant director)
• 1980: The director (TV, as assistant director)
• 1981: Die Kolonie (as assistant director)
• 1983: Olle Henry (as an actor)
• 1984: A Strange Love (as an actor)
• 1984: The Arctic Ocean is calling (as director and actor)
• 1985: The Grünstein variant (as assistant director)
• 1987: Rock 'n' Roll (short documentary)
• 1988: Jungle Time (co-directed with Tran Vu )
• 1988: Lang mi ned o (short documentary)
• 1989: Tuba wa Duo (short documentary)
• 1989: Oh, you jeh (short documentary)
• 1990: biology! (as a director)
• 1990: The last from Da Da eR (as a director)
• 1991: Der Strass (as an actor)
• 1991: Rehearsing the Meisenwürger (short documentary film)
• 1991: Happy End Through Three (TV, as a director)
• 1992: friend and helper (short film)
• 1992: Australian visit (short film)
• 1992: Deliver us from evil (short film)
• 1992: Stein (as an actor)
• 1992: Here and Now (TV series as a director, screenwriter)
• 1994: Prenzlauer Berg Waltz (TV, as a director)
• 1996: Denial (short film)
• 2003: Liberated Zone (as assistant director)
• 2008: Mensch Kotschie (assistant director)

literature

• Jörg Foth . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , p. 427.
• Jörg Foth . In: Barbara Felsmann, Annett Gröschner (Ed.): Prenzlauer Berg transit room, A Berlin artist's social history of the 1970s and 1980s in self-reports . Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-86732-121-1 , pp. 74-88.

Web links

• Jörg Foth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jörg Foth at filmportal.de
• Jörg Foth's vita on defa-stiftung.de
• Vita of Jörg Foth