Jürgen Juerges

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Jürgen Jürges (born December 12, 1940 in Hanover ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Jürgen Jürges completed his first training at a photography school in Berlin in 1961 and worked as a trainee at Hansjürgen Pohlands art film gmbh in 1962 /63.In the 1960s, he worked as a camera assistant and simple cameraman in various productions, for example Volker Schlöndorff's Mord und Mansschlag (1966 / 67).

Since the 1970s, he has been working as head cameraman in important productions of the New German Cinema with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders or Roland Klick . He has received numerous awards for his distant, semi-documentary presentation technique.

His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Jürgen Jürges was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen-Jürges-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
  2. cf. German Film Award: An overview of the nominations at welt.de, March 13, 2009
  3. The prizes of the International Jury 2020 . In: berlinale.de (accessed on March 3, 2020).