Leo Hiemer

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Leo Hiemer at the 2017 Bavarian Dialect Prize

Leopold Hiemer (born June 29, 1954 in Maierhöfen im Allgäu ) is a German film director , film producer , film distributor and author .

Life

Even during his studies in German and history, which he graduated with the state examination, Hiemer made films in Super-8 format, most of them together with Klaus Gietinger . In 1981 he founded his own production company with Klaus Gietinger, Fritz Günthner and Georg Veit, Westallgäuer Filmproduktion (WAF). With mostly tight budgets, the WAF produced some independent, demanding, often provocative films that repeatedly dealt with Leo Hiemer's home, the Allgäu . Several of these films carry the film title “valuable” or “particularly valuable”. The WAF disbanded in 1991 and in 1998 Hiemer founded "Leo Hiemer Filmproduktion".

Especially the film Daheim die Leut ' (screenplay and direction with Klaus Gietinger), about sometimes bizarre conflicts in the country, has achieved cult film status. In 1985, with 400,000 viewers, it was one of the most successful German films of the year and was nominated for the 1986 German Film Prize.

He worked with Klaus Gietinger in directing until 1991, and Marian Czura is still the cameraman today .

In March 2017 Leo Hiemer was awarded the first Bavarian Dialect Prize for the Allgäu region.

Leo Hiemer lives with his wife in Kaufbeuren . He has two grown daughters.

Filmography

  • 1979: Lond it Luck , screenplay and direction (with Klaus Gietinger), a feature film about the Allgäu peasant war . 120 min., Stereo and Super-8, in-house production.
  • 1981: Land of robbers and gendarmes , screenplay and direction (with Klaus Gietinger), TV film, Das kleine Fernsehspiel on ZDF, 98 min.
  • 1985: Die Leut 'at home , screenplay and direction (with Klaus Gietinger), movie, 98 min., Production: Westallgäuer Filmproduktion (in-house production). Nomination for the “German Film Prize” 1986; “Golden Unicorn Alpinale ” 1985. 400,000 spectators.
  • 1988: The time was beautiful , script and direction (with Klaus Gietinger), feature film, 110 min., WAF co-production with SDR / Maran-Film and Bob Arnold-Film.
  • 1994: Leni ... muss go , screenplay and direction, feature film, 86 min., Production: Daniel Zuta film production. Film based on an actual incident about a victim of the Holocaust in the Allgäu.
  • From 1998 freelance screenwriter for the SWR television series " Die Fallers ".
  • 2000: Vision Schwaben , script and direction, image film, 38 min., Leo Hiemer Filmproduktion, Digital Betacam 16: 9.
  • 2002: Heilige Klänge im Allgäu , script and direction, documentary film, 45 min., Leo Hiemer film production on behalf of Bavarian Radio.
  • 2004: Come on, we're dreaming! Not quite normal love , director (script: Volker Jehle, collaboration: Leo Hiemer), feature film, 93 min., Leo Hiemer film production.
  • 2005: Nightmares , director (screenplay: Andreas Gabriel), short film, 20 min., Leo Hiemer film production.
  • 2011: brain bone. On the trail of the Allgäu pioneer , director, commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk, 44 min., Leo Hiemer Filmproduktion.
  • 2013: Heimat unter Strom , director, documentary, 80 min., Leo Hiemer film production

Plays

  • 2005: Mohr of Memmingen . Play based on a novel by Utz Benkel. State Theater Schwaben in Memmingen, production: Patrick Schimanski.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Bartmann: Heissmann & Rassau and Willy Michl received awards. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 20, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hiemer, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiemer, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Maierhöfen