Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (born February 21, 1939 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a German cameraman .
Life
The son of the painter Karl Schmidt-Reitwein and his wife Barbara, née Linde, grew up in Bad Schwartau after their father's death in 1941 . From 1952 he attended the Waldorf School in Rendsburg . In 1957 he began studying physics in Lübeck, which he broke off after four semesters.
In 1959 he moved to Berlin and practiced in the dubbing studio Aer Film / Genschow film as well as in the lab Fikopa. In 1960 he was responsible for the sound engineering for two short films, and in 1961 in the same position for Hansjürgen Pohland's debut feature film Tobby .
In 1961, he hit the headlines when, shortly after the Wall was built, he was caught trying to escape and sentenced by the GDR judiciary as a trafficker and bounty hunter to five years in the Bautzen prison. In 1964 the Federal Republic of Germany was able to buy him out for butter worth 86,000 DM.
Schmidt-Reitwein settled in Munich and was involved in the sound recordings of the films Wilder Reiter GmbH and Alle Jahre again . Since 1965 he has been a camera assistant for several documentaries. In 1968 he repeatedly assisted the cameraman Dietrich Lohmann .
When Lohmann withdrew because of the dangerousness of the recordings in the desert documentary Fata Morgana , Schmidt-Reitwein stepped in, which gave him the breakthrough. He became Werner Herzog's preferred cameraman , but also worked with other New German Film directors such as Werner Schroeter , Alexander Kluge and especially Herbert Achternbusch . He received the Federal Film Prize twice, in 1976 for a heart made of glass and in 1984 for Where the green ants dream .
He was married to Erika Kaul from 1965 to 1972 and became the father of his daughter Iris Maria (* 1966). His son Tobias Lukas (* 1989) comes from his second marriage to Susanne Rupprecht.
Filmography
- 1968: local history museum
- 1969: The image consultant
- 1969: Measures against fanatics
- 1970: Anglia
- 1971: Disabled future
- 1971: Land of Silence and Darkness
- 1971: Fata Morgana
- 1974: Everyone for himself and God against everyone
- 1974: The Andechs feeling
- 1974: The great ecstasy of the carver Steiner
- 1976: Heart made of glass
- 1976: The Atlantic swimmers
- 1976: Whether it's storming or snowing
- 1977: Beer fight
- 1977: La Soufrière - Waiting for an inevitable disaster
- 1977: Hello Bavaria
- 1977: time of sensitivity
- 1978: Germany in autumn
- 1979: Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night
- 1979: Woyzeck
- 1979: Soon to come
- 1979: The Patriot
- 1979: Max and Traudl
- 1980: the candidate
- 1980: The Komantsche
- 1981: The last hole
- 1981: The Negro Erwin
- 1982: Love Council
- 1982: Land of Look Behind
- 1983: The ghost
- 1983: the idiot
- 1983: The Olympic champion
- 1984: Rita Ritter
- 1984: Wandering Crab
- 1984: where the green ants dream
- 1985: The Practice of Love
- 1986: Portrait of Werner Herzog
- 1987: Triumph of the Righteous
- 1988: Navigator
- 1988: Villa Air Bel - Varian Fry in Marseille 1940/41
- 1989: Wanted: Monika Ertl
- 1989: In my heart, honey ...
- 1989: Wodaabe - The Shepherds of the Sun. Nomads on the southern edge of the Sahara
- 1990: Bavaria Blue
- 1990: Echoes from a dark realm
- 1991: Wilma lives far away
- 1992: hot - cold
- 1993: Test drive to paradise
- 1993: Crime Scene: Heaven and Earth
- 1993: Fire night
- 1995: Bells from the Deep - Faith and Superstition in Russia
- 1996: Crime scene: the girl with the doll
- 1996: Tatort: The specialist
- 1996: Crime scene: The settlement
- 1996: The transformation of the world into music: Bayreuth before the premiere
- 1996: In the intoxication of love
- 2000: Fisimatenten
- 2000: crime scene: free riders
- 2000: The red garter
- 2001: Pilgrimage
- 2003: Poem - I put my foot in the air and carried it
- 2003: Kingdom of Heaven
- 2005: Jessye Norman - 'I live alone in my heaven, my loved ones, my song'
- 2007: Marmorera
- 2007: The call of the geckos
- 2012: As between heaven and earth (aka Escape from Tibet )
Awards
- 1976: Gold film tape for a heart made of glass
- 1984: Film tape in gold for Where the green ants dream
Web links
- Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein at filmportal.de
- Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein at cinematographers.nl
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Reitwein, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | King Wusterhausen |