Joachim Dennhardt

Joachim Dennhardt (2005)

Joachim Dennhardt (* 1945 in Wernigerode ) is a German-Austrian director , editor , presenter and author .

Life

Dennhardt studied theater studies , German literature and political science in Cologne . During his studies, he worked as a freelancer for WDR , SWR , Deutschlandfunk and various newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau . From 1977 Dennhardt was television editor for WDR in Cologne. In addition to his work as an editor, he also works as a director , author and presenter. Since 2005 he has been working free again. He lives in Vienna and New York .

Works

His productions included u. a. the series Gods, Graves and Experts - for which he received honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize - and the literary review lyrics . His full-length feature films included u. a. Zattere 51 and An Opera Affair , for which he received the international television prize Media Net Award. He also invented and produced the world's first interactive television game Murderous Decision (1991), which was broadcast in 1991 in many countries from Japan to America.

Joachim Dennhardt has also published various books, worked at the theater and was a lecturer for music film at the University of Siegen and for documentary film at the HFF Munich .

Filmography

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• 1979: 7777 miles - road movie, together with Bettina Woernle
• 1981: Zattere 51, book: Gaston Salvatore
• 1992: Rampenfieber - film about the music festival Printemps de Bourges
• 1994: An opera affair - u. a. with: René Jacobs , Robert Gambill , Laura Aikin , Jean-Louis Martinoty
• 2000: From New York to the Mississippi - A Jazz Journey to the New World
• 2004: Rendezvous in the tropics
• 2005: Welcome to America
• 2015: The last salon - Sissy Strauss

Feature and short films

• 1984: The secret of the divining rod
• 1985: The Reichsgraf - From the everyday life of a noble family
• 1986: autumn day
• 1988: Final spurt in 88 - The night is not just for sleeping - New Year's Eve revue
• 1989: Meredith Monk in concert - recording from the mirror tent
• 1990: Always beginning - 25 years 3rd program WDR - anniversary broadcast
• 1990: Sounds from the Ice - New German Music in the USSR
• 1991: The actor as arsonist - portrait Ulrich Wildgruber
• 1991: Les Sensibles des Schallstadt - hit parodies from 5 decades
• 1992: Playmates of the Olymp - film essay about the artist avant-garde in Barcelona
• 1993: play, sentence, final applause - portrait of the Federal Youth Orchestra
• 1993: Chopin an der Ruhr - film essay about the Ruhr area
• 1994: Erotic Fantasies
• 1996: The art of living with pleasure
• 1997: The second life of the film composer Peer Raben
• 1998: The Adventure of Freedom - A Game with Limits
• 1998: Regina - a revolutionary opera, book: Heinrich Pachl
• 2001: Out of joint - JSBach in the virtual studio
• 2001: Mensch Hermann - Tell me where the heroes are, book: Heinrich Pachl
• 2002: Schubert on the trip to Dortmund

Series

• 1972–1975: Uni-Audimax (as a freelancer)
• 1974–1977: Pipeline (as a freelancer)
• 1980–1981: Gods, Graves and Experts - Development Policy Series
• 1984–1992: lyrics - literary review from the historical mirror tent Het Danspaleis
• 1996–1997: Pariser Journal - processing of the legendary series by Georg Stefan Troller from 1962 to 1971

Editing and production

• 1984: The bought summer, book / director: Michael Busse
• 1987: Bomb atmosphere - entertainment under the swastika, script / director: Volker Kühn
• 1991: Murderous Decision - World's first interactive television play, director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Theater productions

• 1986: Language of love - literature as erotic - a scenic round dance (TV / theater co-production, editing)
• 1990: Poetry and jazz - benefit event 'Artists for Artists', script and direction: Volker Kühn (TV / theater co-production, artistic director)
• 1992: Delirium - script: Hans Magnus Enzensberger , director: George Tabori - (TV / theater co-production, artistic director)
• 2002: First comes the food, then comes the moral gala for the tenth anniversary of the bar of every reason
• 2004: Mischpoche or Who is actually Schapiro - Kölner Schauspielhaus
• 2006: Cologne in Vienna - literature and music, Roter Salon in the Volkstheater Vienna
• 2007: Pannonian eating and drinking theater - a musical-culinary drama
• 2012: Augenlust - Gala at the Vienna Odeon (with Maria Happel , Peter Simonischek , Martin Grubinger , Wiener Streichquartett, Serapionstheater and Peter Sloterdijk, among others )

Awards

• 1982: Honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize for gods, graves and experts
• 1995: Media Net Award for an opera affair
• 2016: Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award (HIIDA) for The Last Salon - Sissy Strauss in New York and Vienna

Nominations

• lyrics - nominated for the Grimme Prize
• The second life of the film composer Peer Raben - nominated for the Grimme Prize
• From New York to the Mississippi - nominated for the Golden Rose of Montreux

Books

• 1981: Development must come from below. Rowohlt (Ed. Together with Siegfried Pater )
• 1984: Brave new television world. Kindler (Ed. Together with Daniela Hartmann )
• 1989: lyrics - A poetic illustrated book. Bouvier
• 2006: Select Europe: Cologne. Wieser
• 2015: Europe selected: Paris. Wieser

Web links

• Personal website of Joachim Dennhardt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister (ed.): Television and its price (PDF; 677 kB), p. 207