Jürgen Brauer

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Jürgen Brauer (born November 6, 1938 in Leipzig ) is a German cameraman, film director and screenwriter.

life and work

Jürgen Brauer was born in Leipzig in 1938 as the son of a shoemaker. After graduating from high school, he began studying physics at the Dresden University of Technology in 1956, where he attended a. a. Lectures in scientific photography. He later worked for about a year as an optical computer at VEB Kamera-Werke Niedersedlitz , when he began studying cameras at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1958 , which he graduated with a diploma in 1962. The cameraman then went to DEFA , where he first made various short films from the satirical “ Stacheltier ” series, with Horst Seemann as director.

In 1965 he led the camera for the first time in a feature film, in Heiner Carow 's children's film Die Reise nach Sundevit . In the following years, Brauer worked on several film productions with both Carow and Seemann. Brauer had his greatest successes as a cameraman in the 1970s, with Carow's Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1972), Ikarus (1975) and Till Death Divorce You (1978), with Frank Beyer's Das Versteck (1978) and with Die Fiancee (1980) by Günter Reisch and Günther Rücker .

Shortly before shooting the Wellm film version Pugowitza , for which the original director gave up in 1980, Brauer was unceremoniously engaged as a director, so that he celebrated his debut as a film director with the support of Heiner Carow. His second directorial work, Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns , an adaptation of the fairy tale novel by Gisela and Bettina von Arnim, was created in 1985. A year later he directed the film Hilde, the Maid , together with Günther Rücker , in which he was also responsible for the camera as well as co-directing was. Further film work followed.

Since 1984, Brauer has also taught as a lecturer at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Brauer increasingly worked for television. He directed several episodes in the Tatort , Polizeiruf 110 and Der Fahnder series . He has been part of the directing team for the ARD series In all friendship since 1999 and has staged more than 130 episodes.

Honors

  • In 1970 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III as a cameraman on the shooting team for the film Unterwegs zu Lenin . Art and literature class.
  • In 1980 he received the National Prize of the GDR 1st class for art and literature.
  • In 1987 his feature film Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns was awarded the Findlings Prize at the GDR National Children's Film Festival in Gera .

Filmography (selection)

camera operator

Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Gisela Harkenthal in hobby: making films , a conversation with director-cameraman Jürgen Becker; Film Spiegel No. 9, 1987 - pages 6 and 7
  2. ^ Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold: Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR. VISTAS, Berlin 2001. Page 438
personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig