Jürgen Roland

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Jürgen Roland Schellack (born  December 25, 1925 in Hamburg ; † September 21, 2007 there ) was a German television and film director and actor . The screenwriter and reporter Jessica Shellac is his daughter.

Jürgen Roland (right) 1977 in Kiel

Life

After graduating from high school , he was sent to the Reich Labor Service in Hamburg in 1943 and then to the war. He was a member of a propaganda company of the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht. Roland started working as a radio reporter at Radio Hamburg shortly after the end of the war, and in 1948 he also became an assistant director . In 1950 he attended the BBC television school in London , after which he started as a reporter at NWDR , the predecessor of NDR and WDR . There he was known as a “man for all cases” who was responsible for sports, daily news and film interviews. On April 4, 1952, still in the experimental program, he began with the series: What's going on in Hamburg?

From 1953 he designed the television series The police report reports ... Here, current criminal cases were processed journalistically. From 1958 to 1968 he directed the 22 episodes of the crime series Stahlnetz , which impressed viewers with their semi-documentary form and thus became street sweepers . From 1967 to 1973 he was the director and presenter of the crime series The perpetrator on the trail . Prominent guests had to try to find the perpetrator of a criminal case by combining or guessing. The spectators and the advice team received exactly the same information as the investigating officers, represented by Günther Neutze and Karl Lieffen . The series was very popular with the public.

Roland also directed feature films such as the Edgar Wallace films The Red Circle (1960) and The Green Archer (1961), the anti-war film Der Transport (1962) or the crime thriller Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964, the only film in which the Neutze brothers Hanns Lothar , Horst Michael Neutze and Günter Neutze played together) and 4 Keys (1965). This was later followed by directorial work, for example for the Tatort series . Roland was employed by NDR until he was 65, after which he worked as a freelancer.

Based on his experiences as a police reporter, Roland designed the cult series Großstadtrevier , which went on air in 1986 and is still on the ARD evening program today - with changing cast. He directed the first few seasons himself.

Grave of Jürgen Roland

Jürgen Roland lived privately in the Hamburg district of Bergstedt. He died on September 21, 2007 after a long illness at the age of 81. His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Honors

In honor of Jürgen Roland, the undoped Roland Film Prize is awarded every two years at the Tatort Eifel crime festival .

The Hamburg Detective Prize in honor of Jürgen Roland has been awarded annually since 2008 as part of the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award gala . The award, endowed with 10,000 euros, was donated by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

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Documentaries

  • 1954 We're going to Stockholm - The report of a boat trip
  • 1955 Network overboard
  • 1958 The Film Studio (3 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Nerger: Jürgen Roland. In: knerger.de. 2001, accessed on September 19, 2019 (The grave of Jürgen Roland).
  2. ↑ Verena Bernardy: The ROLAND is awarded. In: Tatort Eifel. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014 ; accessed on September 19, 2019 . Crime festival "Tatort Eifel": A "Roland" for the Munich crime scene. In: BR-Online.de . September 26, 2011, archived from the original on October 18, 2011 ; accessed on September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ A dead diver does not take gold. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Roland, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shellac, Jürgen Roland (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2007
Place of death Hamburg