Lew Hohmann

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Hans-Jürgen "Lew" Hohmann (born July 22, 1944 in Schmiedeberg in the Riesengebirge ) is a German filmmaker and film scholar . He is especially with television - documentaries emerged.

Life

Lew (Hans-Jürgen) Hohmann was born in 1944 in Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains in the province of Silesia of the German Empire . After graduating from high school, he completed a degree in mechanical engineering in Chemnitz and studied directing at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy, where he obtained a directing diploma. For almost 20 years he worked as a writer and director at DEFA-Studio for documentary films .

Lew Hohmann had made more than 50 films by 2008, mostly documentaries for television. His early works include films about the Leipziger Thomanerchor (1979) and Martin Luther (1981). He also worked on the animation film Copyright by Luther, which was released in 1983 . Hohmann was best known for his Wolf trilogy , which was created between 1985 and 1998 and which dealt with Friedrich Wolf ( Forgive me that I am human ) and his sons Konrad ( Time that remains ) and Markus Wolf ( The Man Without a Face ) employed. In 1988 he was also instrumental in the book Friedrich Wolf. Images from a German biography involved.

As a documentary filmmaker, Hohmann accompanied the phase of German reunification intensively . In 1990 the film A Narrow Piece of Germany was made in collaboration with Joachim Tschirner and Klaus Salge . For No Farewell - Just Away , Hohmann accompanied three East German families who fled via Hungary in the fall of 1989 to the West and back until 1991 and recorded their experiences. Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he went to her again and showed in Coming and Going what has become of the refugees from back then. With Hans-Hermann Hertle, he realized the documentary Beton und Devisen in 1996 , a film about the wall as a property.

After reunification, Hohmann also developed a number of TV formats from 1991 to 1997 as managing director and producer of the film production "Tele Potsdam", including a. The Window (DFF) and Stranger Children (3sat). He also took on a teaching position at the University of Leipzig .

Since the late 1990s, he has increasingly specialized in historical documentaries. As a writer and director, he was instrumental in the lavish series Die Brandenburger. Chronik eines Landes (1998), Die Preußen-Chronik (1999/2000) and Germans and Poles (2004) involved. At the same time, he was also significantly involved as a concept developer and author on the accompanying websites for these series and on the Chronik der Wende website . He was also the co-author of the accompanying books Die Brandenburger und Prußen-Chronik . For the MDR TV series Die Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands he created scenic documentaries about Martin Luther (2003), Johann Sebastian Bach (2004), Hugo Junkers (2005), Reinhard Heydrich (2006), Alfred Brehm (2007) and Felix Graf Luckner (2008). He has been nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize several times for his work .

Lew Hohmann taught as an honorary professor for digital media / media production at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen and until 2012 also in Magdeburg at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences in the areas of film conception, documentary film, media law, international media business and products, markets, companies. Hohmann works as a freelance filmmaker, non-fiction and web author, he is a member of the documentary film working group .

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SURNAME Hohmann, Lew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohmann, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker and film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiedeberg , Giant Mountains