Klaus Lemke

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Klaus Lemke poses with crew members on the occasion of the premiere of Dancing with Devils (2009)

Klaus Lemke (born October 13, 1940 in Landsberg an der Warthe ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Lemke grew up in Düsseldorf and, after graduating from high school, initially managed to do odd jobs, including as a paver. He broke off his studies of art history and philosophy in Freiburg after six semesters. In 1963 he assisted as a theater director in Düsseldorf and at the Münchner Kammerspiele . His first short film was made in 1965 . Lemke's first feature film, 48 hours to Acapulco , made him famous in 1967. His big breakthrough came in the 1970s: Rocker was a cinematic hymn to the Hamburg neighborhood. Amore founded the Schwabing milieu comedy in 1978 and received the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize in 1979 . In the 1990s he tried to build on his success with films like Die Ratte .

After the turn of the millennium in 1999, Klaus Lemke again received special recognition: in 2009 the director received the North German Film Prize for Dancing with Devils , followed by the Munich Film Prize in 2010 for his film Dirty South . In 2011 the film 3 Crosses for a bestseller celebrated its premiere at the Viennale in Vienna and the Hof Film Festival . In 2011 he shot his first film in Berlin - Berlin for Heroes . “It feels like it did back then with Rocker, ” he said of the result.

Lemke mostly shoots his films with amateur actors . He mainly works for television ( WDR , ZDF ). Some of his works are located in Bavarian surroundings and use the Bavarian language intensively , often in effective contrast to extensive Anglicism . In this context, Lemke is considered to be the discoverer of Cleo Kretschmer , Wolfgang Fierek and Dolly Dollar .

At the award ceremony of the City of Munich Film Prize in 2010, Dominik Graf said in the laudation : “Quite effortlessly, like John Sebastian , the brain and voice of Lovin 'Spoonful - that's how Lemke films sing their stories like melodies. [...] His film 'Rocker' was a turning point for 1972, first of all for Lemke himself. ”Lemke received a special homage series from the new curator Christoph Gröner at the Munich Film Festival in 2014 after he had not played a role there for a long time .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THE LEMKE DIRECTOR . DARE MAGAZINE. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Independence Day In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 29, 2010, p. 10
  3. ↑ Klaus Lemke at the Munich Film Festival - bomb, baby! , Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 28, 2014, accessed June 28, 2014
  4. ↑ Florian Merkel: Rocker: Hamburg's cult film of the millennium In: Hamburger Morgenpost from February 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ http://gegenschuss.kinowelt.de/filmverlag.php ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Michael Schleicher: "As unexpected as a splinter from paradise". In: merkur.de. November 9, 2009, accessed January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lemke, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg an der Warthe (today Gorzów Wielkopolski , Poland)