Jürgen Trimborn

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Jürgen Trimborn (born June 19, 1971 in Cologne ; † September 25, 2012 in Bad Münstereifel ) was a German cultural and film scholar who mainly worked as a freelance writer . He wrote non-fiction books on the subject of film and television as well as biographies about Leni Riefenstahl , Arno Breker , Johannes Heesters , Hildegard Knef , Rudi Carrell , Romy Schneider and Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

Life

Trimborn studied theater, film and television studies, art history, German literature, history and philosophy at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on monuments as stagings in public space in the subject of art history. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies (University of Cologne) and at the Theater Studies Collection in Schloss Wahn. During this time he also began writing a habilitation thesis with the working title The Pose of the Vamp in the Cinema of the Twenties and Thirties , which he broke off in 2000.

Since then he has worked as a freelance writer of non-fiction books. In 2002 his highly acclaimed biography of Leni Riefenstahl appeared, entitled Riefenstahl. A German career in the Aufbau-Verlag was published and was nominated for the German Book Prize. The biography was subsequently translated into numerous languages. A film version is in preparation.

In 2003 he published a biography of Johannes Heesters under the title Der Herr im Frack and in 2005 a Hildegard Knef biography. In 2006 he published a book about Rudi Carrell's life's work in close collaboration with the showmaster. In 2008, on the 70th birthday of Romy Schneider, his volume Romy and her family came onto the book market. In 2011 Trimborn's new book Arno Breker was published . The artist and the power. The biography of Hitler's favorite sculptor, and in 2012 his biography A Day is a Year is a Life about the filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

According to information from Ullstein-Verlag, he died after a long and serious illness and was buried privately in a quiet forest in the Eifel.

Fonts

  • The pose as a means of staging the sex bomb in American films of the fifties and sixties . Cologne 1997.
  • Monuments as presentations in public space . Cologne 1997.
  • The German Heimatfilm of the fifties . Cologne 1999.
  • 90s television. The German television landscape since the introduction of private broadcasters . Cologne 2000.
  • Riefenstahl. A German career . Biography. Berlin 2002.
  • The gentleman in the tailcoat. Johannes Heesters . Biography. Berlin 2003.
  • Hildegard Knef. Happiness only knows minutes . Munich 2005.
  • Rudi Carrell. A life for the show . Munich 2006.
  • Romy and her family . Munich 2008.
  • Arno Breker. The artist and the power. The biography . Berlin 2011
  • A day is a year is a life. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The biography . Berlin 2012

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
personal data
SURNAME Trimborn, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, author of non-fiction books and biographies
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2012
Place of death Bad Münstereifel