Klaus Stanjek

Klaus Stanjek (born November 20, 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a German documentary film director , university professor and social anthropologist .

biography

Klaus Stanjek studied psychology and biology in Münster, Würzburg and Munich from 1968 to 1974 . He then obtained his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology with interdisciplinary, cross- cultural studies on property and property. From 1979 he switched to documentary film. Studied at the Munich University of Television and Film (directing documentary film) until 1983. Since then has worked as a lecturer in documentary directing, a. a. in Munich, Leipzig, Bolzano, Beijing, Sri Lanka, Addis Ababa, Jenin, Tehran. From 1993 to 2014 he was professor for documentary directing at the Potsdam University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" . He lives in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

He made numerous documentaries as a director (and often as a producer) on social issues for TV, cinema and educational work. His films deal with the downside of the money society, with opposing worlds, archaic worlds and children's worlds. Often there is the question of other ways of life.

Filmography (selection)

• 2019 Red Councils - on the beginnings of democracy
• 2012 Sounds of Silence - A detective music film about Wilhelm Heckmann .
• 2004 Commune of the Blessed - Interior of a Hutterite commune in Canada
• 1999 The Year of the Fisherman - A centuries-old fishing farm and its inhabitants
• 1998 Children of Utopia - A Canadian Hutterer settlement from a children's perspective
• 1994 Big City - City of the Great - Forays through the world of children with a hidden camera
• 1991 London - City Structure and Demography of London
• 1990 Twilight - The Ecology of Artificial Brightness
• 1984 The Water Lords - About the Harbingers of Coming Deficiency
• 1980 Across the landscape - airport construction and resistance in the Erdinger Moos
• 1977 Christiania - The largest anarchist project in Europe

Publications (selection)

• Klaus Stanjek: Paradigms of Documentary Film - Views from Babelsberg. In: Edmund Ballhaus (ed.): Documentary. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2013.
• Klaus Stanjek (Hrsg.): The Babelsberg School of Documentary Film. Bertz & Fischer Berlin 2012.
• Klaus Stanjek / Renate Gompper (eds.): Documentary film lessons in Europe; Teaching Documentary Film in Europe. Vistas Verlag Berlin 1995.
• Klaus Stanjek: Energy-saving lamps = waste lamps. A study of the overall ecological balance of so-called energy-saving lamps. On behalf of Greenpeace / Hamburg 1991.
• Klaus Stanjek (Ed.): Twilight - The ecology of artificial brightness. Raben Verlag Munich 1989.
• Klaus Stanjek: The giving of gifts: function and development in the first years of life. Journal for Developmental Psychology a. Pedag. Psychologie 1978 issue 2, pp. 103-113.

Honourings and prices

• "Best Script" of the History Film Festival Rijeka (for "Sounds from the Fog")
• "Best Documentary" of the Side-by-Side Festival St. Petersburg (for "Sounds from the Fog")
• "Film of the month" from FBW Wiesbaden (for "Sounds of Silence")
• Predicate "particularly valuable" (for "sounds of silence")
• Citizen's Prize for Nonfiction (for "Sounds of Silence")
• William Dieterle Film Prize 2013 (for "Sounds of Silence")
• "Best Documentary" of the Festival Cinema Bolzano (for "Commune of Bliss")
• "Film of the month" in "Further education and media" (for "Twilight")
• "Valuable" rating from FBW (for "The Water Lords" and "Commune of the Blessed")
• "Effective" rating from the Ökomedia Institute (for "The Water Lords")

literature

• Kay Hoffmann: People - Klaus Stanjek. Film & TV-Kameramann, Munich, December 20, 2013, pp. 36–38.
• Catrin Lüth: Klaus Stanjek - time for utopia. In: Klotz, Brigitte / Schulz, Torsten (ed.): Film art has a name. Vistas Verlag 2012, pp. 127–129.

Web links

• Klaus Stanjek in the Internet Movie Database
• Klaus Stanjek at Cinetarium Babelsberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website for the film