Jörg Herrmann

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Jörg Herrmann

Klausjörg "Jörg" Herrmann (born June 8, 1941 in Dresden ) is a producer of animated films and one of the last active silhouette filmmakers .

Life

Herrmann's family was bombed out during the air raids on Dresden in 1945. Herrmann started school in Mulda in 1947 and returned to Dresden in 1949. After completing primary school (1955) and the journeyman's examination as a carpenter (1958), he began working as an animator in the DEFA studio for animated films .

From 1962 to 1965 he attended evening high school and made up for his Abitur . In those years he produced his first animated films as a writer and director (puppet animation ).

Education

From 1966 he studied directing and scenario writing at the University of Film and Television Potsdam . After graduating in 1970, he worked as a director in the DEFA studio for animated films for the next nine years and made his first work in the field of silhouette films . In the meantime he did a distance learning course in philosophy and logic at the Humboldt University , which he also completed with a diploma.

After three years of postgraduate study at the Academy of Film and Television doctorate he 1982 Dr. phil. ( Film Studies ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin magna cum laude on the subject of animation film - on the genesis and specifics of a film genre. In the following two years, he developed the animation course at the technical school department of the University of Film and Television Potsdam . At the same time he worked as a freelance animation filmmaker with his own animation studio (35 mm film) and produced 24 silhouette films for the evening greeting from Our Sandman until the fall of the Wall . Since 1991 he has been running his own trick studio in Kreischa near Dresden.

Silhouette trick

Herrmann is probably the last person in the world to practice the classic silhouette trick. He learned this art from Bruno J. Böttge , a recognized master of silhouette film and co-founder of the DEFA studio for animated films. Herrmann shared the office at DEFA with Böttge. After his death (1981), Herrmann turned to silhouette film and thus also entered the legacy of its inventor Lotte Reiniger (the silhouette film is the only German contribution to the art of animation). His wife Petra Herrmann took over the psaligraphy and built the silhouette figures . His son Friedrich developed the Heron trick bank . |

In 2011, Dr. Herrmann produced a cinema silhouette film for the Sorbian Domowina , which was financed by the SLM ( Saxon State Agency for Private Broadcasting and New Media ) and Vattenfall : The Seventh Raven , a retelling of the Krabat saga .

Herrmann's combination of manual silhouette animation with digital design options opened up new possibilities for the traditional German design method.

Movies

  • Dear Mohr. Silhouettenfilm mit Böttge (1972), a 20-minute children's film about Karl Marx in London (awarded the Ministry of Popular Education Prize and the Order of the Banner of Labor )
  • Holy salvation. Silhouette film series in 7 episodes
  • The sugar-sweet land
  • The focus. Director: Jörg Herrmann, Music: Günther Joseck (1965)
  • Champion. Director: Jörg Herrmann, Music: Günther Joseck (1965)
  • Chile. Jörg Herrmann & Juan Forch, critical film contribution to the events in the Andean country after the Pinochet putsch (1976)
  • Shadow figures. 24 episodes of Our Sandman
  • The devil's bride. With colored silhouette figures for Progress Filmverleih (1990)
  • The light arch. A combination of real film and silhouette animation about the Erzgebirge Schwibbogen
  • Victory. A parable about war, warriors and victors (2008)
  • The seventh raven. A 70-minute silhouette film about the legendary figure Krabat (2011)
  • Dunkeldingen's gloom show. An approx. 15-minute silhouette film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Christian von Aster (2013)

Book contributions

  • The trick with the trick. Origins, essence and change in the art of animation. In: Ralf Schenk & Sabine Scholze (eds.): The trick factory. DEFA animation films 1955–1990. Bertz, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929470-27-6 .
  • How an animated film was made at DEFA. In: Puppets in the DEFA animation film. DEFA Foundation, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-018155-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrmann, Klausjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silhouette filmmaker and animation film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , Germany