Kurt Denzer

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Kurt Denzer (born August 3, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German director and documentary filmmaker .

Career

Denzer began filming when he was a student in Detmold . In 1956 he won first prize for a short film at the Lippe Amateur Film Club competition . After graduating from the Leopoldinum Detmold , he began to study teaching in Innsbruck and Kiel (German and Latin philology , philosophy , art history ). As a member of the film working group at the Studentenwerk Kiel, he remained connected to film. He headed the film working group from 1979 to 1988.

After a dissertation on film theory (investigation into the film dramaturgy of the Third Reich) , he passed the state examination and after his legal clerkship worked in school.

From 1988 to 2004 Denzer was head of the film working group at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Denzer became known in the 1990s with documentaries about the Viking settlement in Haithabu . From 1993 he directed CINARCHEA - International Archeology-Film-Art-Festival , which took place in Kiel. From 1995 to 1997 he was a board member of the Working Group on Documentary Films . In 1996 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for the founding of several film initiatives and his longstanding association work.

Since 2019, Denzer's film equipment and library have been completely transferred to the Stern Collection in the Ancient Studies Film Archive of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Cinematic works

Unless otherwise stated, listing from Onlinefilm.de

  • Speaking of Haithabu ... any questions? , 2015, Germany, 37 min.
  • Dack ut Delv , 2004, Germany, 21 min.
  • The gold of the north - the amber pearl , 2003, Germany, 3 min.
  • The sledge from the Stone Age - transporting a megalith Germany, 2003, 3 min.
  • Water - Clouds - Science , 2000, Germany, length: 24 min., Script & direction: Kurt Denzer
  • The wooden calendar , 1994, Germany, 12:30 min.
  • Gloomy, dark, barely exposed , 1991, Germany, 5 min., Book & production: Kurt Denzer
  • Who liberated Heligoland? ; Documentary, BR Germany, 1990–92, 90 minutes, director: Kurt Denzer, distributor: Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek
  • From tree to dugout , 1989, Germany, 16:30 min.
  • On a Viking course with Shangri-La , 1987, Germany, 90 min.
  • The world of the Vikings , 1986, Germany, 38 min.
  • The Haithabu ship , 1985, Germany, 30 min.
  • The Haithabu bell , 1981, Germany, 23 min.
  • Geophysicists on the trail of the Vikings , 1980, Germany, 17 min.
  • Floret Academia - a German university jubilee 1965 , FRG, 1965, 10 min., Camera, editing, production: Kurt Denzer, manufacturer: Film-AG in the Studentenwerk Kiel.
  • His brother - youth drama , 1960, experimental film

Awards and festival participation

  • 1st prize at the Lippe Amateur Film Club Competition for a short film
  • 45th Nordic Film Days Lübeck : The sledge of the Stone Age - transport of a megalith, Deutschland / Germany 2003; 3 min .; Director, camera, editor and producer: Kurt Denzer; Script: Kurt Denzer & Harm Paulsen; AG Film of the University of Kiel

Honorary positions

  • Member of the jury of the media prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Heimatbund in 1997

Fonts

  • Kurt Denzer (Ed.) (2010): Cinarchea. The international archeology, film and art festival 1992–2010. Eine Chronik , Verlag Ludwig, Kiel, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-027-1 .
  • Kurt Denzer (ed.) (2003): Finds, films, false friends. The archeology film in the service of profit and propaganda. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel, ISBN 978-3-933598-72-1

swell

  • Web business card Dr. Briefly Denzer at DOK , accessed 2019-09-07
  • J. Meyer (2016), The film was born , Kieler Nachrichten, July 12, 2016, called 2019-09-07

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming and teaching: On the 70th of the Kiel filmmaker Kurt Denzer in the Kieler Nachrichten of August 3, 2009
  2. ↑ S. Kirchhoff (2019) Film archive of the University of Göttingen enriched , Göttinger Tageblatt, September 6, 2019, accessed 2019-09-07
  3. ↑ Films by and with Dr. Kurt Denzer , accessed 2019-09-07
  4. ↑ a b c Science and Vikings filmed against the grain - Kurt Denzer showed films about the university, the history of Schleswig-Holstein and the Viking settlement Haithabu on the 350th anniversary of the CAU Kiel, infomedia-sh.org , accessed 2019-09- 07
  5. ↑ The sledge of the Stone Age - transport of a megalith, program of the 45th Nordic Film Days Lübek 2003 , accessed 2019-09-07
  6. ↑ Entry at www.filmdienst.de , accessed 2019-09-07
  7. ↑ J. Meyer (2016), The film was born in the cradle , Kieler Nachrichten, July 12, 2016, called 2019-09-07
  8. ↑ The sledge of the Stone Age - transport of a megalith, program of the 45th Nordic Film Days Lübek 2003 , accessed 2019-09-07
  9. ↑ Media Prize of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Heimatbund 1997 , accessed 2019-09-07
personal data
SURNAME Denzer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin