Johannes Flütsch
Johannes Flütsch (born April 5, 1945 in Bern , Switzerland ; † April 7, 2014 ) was a Swiss filmmaker , director , film and theater producer and author.
Life
After secondary school and completing his apprenticeship in 1962, he worked as a seaman, farm worker in South Africa and truck driver. From 1965 to 1970 he studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1967 Flütsch started with Rosa von Praunheim , Werner Schroeter a . a. to film and then moved from 1971 to 1975 to the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . Flütsch wrote articles and photo reports a. a. for the Weltwoche , the Tages-Anzeiger , the Tagesanzeiger Magazin and the Berner Zeitung . He taught film and directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and at the Zurich University of the Arts .
Filmography (selection)
Films made as a producer, writer, director, cameraman and editor from 1969 to 2003.
- 1969: Comrades in Strawberry Paradise (experimental film)
- 1972: Amsterdam - I've been eight times (TV feature film)
- 1974: Flöz Dickebank (documentary for cinema and television)
- 1975: We never felt what freedom is (documentary for television)
- 1977: Long Way (documentary for television)
- 1978: Is the freedom of broadcasting threatened? (TV movie)
- 1978/79: Monarch (documentary with Manfred Stelzer for cinema and television)
- 1982: Tenderness and Anger (documentary for cinema and television) (camera Carlo Varini )
- 1983: Chapiteau (feature film for cinema and television) (camera Pio Corradi)
- 1984: David (documentary for television)
- 1986: Schocher Pontresina
- 1987: The Dream of Paris (documentary for cinema and television)
- 1993: Punch (feature film for cinema and television with Donald Sutherland )
- 1994: Birger Selin (video production)
- 2003: Tales of the Forger (documentary for cinema and television)
Awards (selection)
- Fipresci Prize for Seam Dickebank , Berlin
- German film award for Monarch
- German Film Award for With a Starry Eye on Money (Camera)
- Prize of the city of Mannheim for tenderness and anger
- Fipresci Prize for tenderness and anger , Mannheim
- Quality award from the Federal Office of Culture for The Dream of Paris
- Leipzig Documentary Film Prize for We have never felt what freedom is
- Zurich film award for stories about forgers
Theater (selection) from 1980
- Fool for Love by Sam Shepard , translated, produced and directed
- Bukowski - A Live, conception, production and direction
- Daydreamer by William Mastrosimone , produced and directed
- Katzelmacher by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , production and direction
- Mr. Paul von Tankred Dorst , production and direction
- Sentimental Journey by Dagmar Kossow, direction
Web links
- The monarch in his realm - The Wayward Cloud
- Monarch - Ziegler film
- Manfred Stelzers - Early Documentaries
- Johannes Flütsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Search | My regional portal. (No longer available online.) In: suedostschweiz.ch. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 15, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flütsch, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss filmmaker, director, film and theater producer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2014 |