Kurt Gloor
Kurt Gloor (born November 8, 1942 in Zurich , ZH , Switzerland ; † September 20, 1997 there ) was a Swiss film director .
Life
The son of insurance inspector Kurt Gloor and his wife Irma, née Surbeck, completed an apprenticeship in graphic design and the Zurich School of Applied Arts . He worked in various studios in Zurich and Vienna and was a camera assistant in the production of advertising films.
In 1969 he founded Kurt Gloor Filmproduktion. From 1969 he was a freelance, socially critical filmmaker who initially worked with documentaries such as The Landscape Gardeners (1969) or The Green Children (1971). Until 1972 he also ran the camera. His films, which critically dealt with the cliché of an ideal Switzerland, polarized the audience. The Zurich Film Prize awarded to him by the jury for his film The Green Children , which was one of the first to address environmental degradation in Switzerland, was refused to him by the city president and government councilor.
He became known to the general public with his first feature film, The sudden loneliness of Konrad Steiner , shown at the Berlinale in 1976, with Sigfrit Steiner in the lead role. The film about an old widower who is about to be put in a retirement home received numerous awards. After making several films, he started producing documentaries for television in 1993.
Kurt Gloor had been married to Verena Christen since 1965 and had a daughter named Corina. In 1997 he passed away voluntarily. His grave is in the Manegg cemetery .
Filmography
- 1967: ffft (short film)
- 1968: Homage (short film)
- 1968: Mondo Karies (short film)
- 1969: The Landscape Gardeners (Documentary)
- 1970: Wanted (short film)
- 1970: Ex (documentary)
- 1971: The Green Children (documentary)
- 1972: What do you think of an authoritarian upbringing? (Short documentary)
- 1973: The Best Years (Documentary)
- 1976: Konrad Steiner's sudden loneliness
- 1977: Em Lehme si Letscht
- 1979: The Chinese
- 1980: the inventor
- 1984: man with no memory
- 1991: Faces of Switzerland ( Visages suisses ) (Episode: Wilhelm Tell )
- 1993: Jessica
- 1993: Dream job for Guardian Angel
- 1994: blindly into life
- 1996: Paralyzed - the painter Klaus Spahni
- 1996: With one foot in the afterlife - life after death (documentary)
Awards
- 1970: FIPRESCI Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for the landscape gardeners
- 1971: Interfilm Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for Ex
- 1972: Interfilm Prize of the International Agricultural Film Days in Berlin for the landscape gardeners
- 1976: OCIC Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for the sudden loneliness of Konrad Steiner
- 1977: Film Prize of the City of Zurich for The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner
- 1977: Silver Siren of the Sorrento Film Week for The sudden loneliness of Konrad Steiner
- 1981: OCIC Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián for The Inventor
- 1984: OCIC Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for a man without a memory
Web links
- Felix Aeppli: Gloor, Kurt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Kurt Gloor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gloor, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , ZH , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1997 |
| Place of death | Zurich , ZH , Switzerland |