Joachim Tschirner

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Tschirner speaks at the Berlin Alexanderplatz demonstration on November 4, 1989

Joachim Tschirner (born March 1, 1948 in Wittenberge ) is a documentary film director and member of the German Film Academy .

Life and work

In 1968 Joachim Tschirner graduated from the Berlin Handel High School . He learned the trade of a commercial typesetter.

From 1970 to 1974 he studied cultural theory and aesthetics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Since 1974 he has worked as an editor and since 1980 as an author and director in the DEFA studio for documentary films . In 1991 he was a co-founder of the authors' association and film production "UM WELT FILM".

He has written and directed more than thirty feature films and television documentaries, and has also worked in the fields of media policy and humanitarian aid.

“The director Joachim Tschirner,” says the book Black & White and Color , “was the only younger man to have his say at the last pre-Wende congress of film and television professionals in 1988 . He called for the ideas of perestroika and glasnost to be defended, which for the GDR amounted to a radical restructuring of society. "

Tschirner appeared as a speaker at the demonstration for freedom of travel, freedom of expression, freedom of the press and assembly on November 4, 1989 in East Berlin. In the speech, he doubted that a real turnaround would be possible as long as those were still sitting in the executive floors of the broadcasters and editorial offices who had only turned their chairs 180 degrees.

According to a report of the World Tschirner to several years under the code name "Hans Matusch" as IM for the Stasi have been active. Joachim Tschirner commented on this in the biographical collection of 21 DEFA directors published in autumn 2012. In it he rejects the newspaper's allegations. They neither reflected the content of the conversations with employees of the MfS nor Tschirner's positions. He said he did not write any denunciation reports and did not disclose any confidential information about anyone. According to Tschirner, his contacts with the Stasi were primarily about political disputes that did not differ from those that he had conducted in public.

After the board of directors and the executive committee of the GDR Film and Television Association had to resign in November 1989 , Tschirner was elected as the new chairman.

In 1996 he founded the aid organization Wasser für die Kinder des Aralsees e. V. , of which he was chairman until 2009. This association transported urgently needed goods to the disaster area at the Aral Sea with several aid transports. There the association rehabilitated the children's department of the Sultanov tuberculosis center in the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakistan , Nukus .

Tschirner is the father of the actress Nora Tschirner .

Filmography (selection)

  • Canto General - The Great Song by Pablo Neruda and Mikis Theodorakis (1983)
  • Say: heaven. Even if there is none. - Meeting with Jannis Ritsos (1984)
  • and at the end THE CONCERT (1985)
  • The Minoan Peace (1986)
  • Katrin (1987)
  • Rapport (1988)
  • Born to See (1988)
  • This side and that side of the German border (together with Lew Hohmann , 1989)
  • Max III (1989/90)
  • No violence (together with Lew Hohmann , 1990)
  • Katrins Hütte (long-term documentation 1985–1991)
  • Racking (long-term documentation 1993–1997)
  • A small piece of Germany (together with Lew Hohmann and Klaus Salge , 1991)
  • No farewell - just go (together with Lew Hohmann , 1989–1991)
  • Vridolin (1991)
  • TV off - shooting stars on (1992)
  • On the seventh day over the Syr Darja (1993)
  • Seven Days Down By The Indian River (1995)
  • Documentation Sachsenhausen (1988–1994)
  • Drinking water shortage at the Aral Sea (1997)
  • The Aral Sea - Where the water ends, the earth ends (1998)
  • Poisonous Ships - The Story of a Colorless Substance (2001)
  • Fordlândia - The Forgotten City in the Rainforest (2002)
  • The lost villages of bismuth (2006)
  • terra incognita - THE WISMUTH (2007)
  • Yellow Cake - The lie of clean energy . A long-term documentation (2004-2010)

Festivals and prizes (selection)

Munich, Mannheim, Berlin, Amsterdam, Nyon, Edinburgh, Sydney, Leipzig, Moscow, Tampere, Osnabrück, London, Grenoble, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Innsbruck, Tokyo, Shanghai, Windhoek, Melbourne

  • Main Prize VIII International Film Festival, Moscow, July 1983
  • Special recommendation of the International Ecumenical Jury, Leipzig 1991
  • Certificate 21st Media Award London 1999
  • Atlantis-Filmfest Wiesbaden 2010 Award for the best documentary film
  • Alaska International Film Festival 2010 Kodiak Award
  • Eco-film tour 2011 Hoimar von Ditfurth Prize
  • 4th International Uranium Film Festival , 2014 Yellow Oscar

Web links

Commons : Joachim Tschirner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Um Welt Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH Environmentfilm.de
  2. ↑ Black and white and color - DEFA documentary films 1946-92. Publisher Filmmuseum Potsdam, 1996, ISBN 3-931321-51-7 , Filmmuseum Potsdam & Jovis publishing office Berlin
  3. ^ The speech of November 4, 1989
  4. ↑ Linda Wurster: Full bearded revolutionary with a Stasi past. In: Die Welt , November 4, 2011, accessed: November 4, 2011.
  5. ^ Christiane Mückenberger, Ingrid Poss, Anne Richter, Filmmuseum Potsdam (eds.): The principle of curiosity. DEFA documentary filmmakers tell. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-355-01799-2 ( Announcement of the publisher ( memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verlag-neues-leben.de
  6. ↑ aralsee.org
  7. ↑ aralsee.org ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aralsee.org
  8. ↑ oekofilmtour.de
personal data
SURNAME Tschirner, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary film director and commercial typesetter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg