Lothar Barke

Lothar Barke (born January 20, 1926 in Berlin , † November 4, 2010 in Dresden ) was a German animation film director and screenwriter, and co-founder of the DEFA studio for animated films based in Dresden.

Life

After being taken prisoners by the Americans and French, Barke was accepted into the animation class at the master school for arts and crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1948. In 1950 he came to DEFA , where he designed titles and tricks for popular science films. He also wrote the script for a satirical short film called Katzenmusik , the adaptation of which DEFA Director Sepp Schwab endorsed. The animated film was finally shown in August 1954 as the first DEFA animation film in East German cinemas.

In 1955 Barke was one of the founding members of the DEFA studio for animated films in Dresden , to which he was an animator and director until 1968. During this time he filmed several children's books, for example Alarm im Puppet Theater in 1960 based on the children's book of the same name by Nils Werner , in which he lent his voice to the main character of the devil, and in 1965 The Flying Grandfather based on a children's book by Heinz Behling and Heinz Kahlow . Alarm im Puppet Theater has received numerous awards, including international awards, including the 1962 Silver Lotus Flower of the International Film Festival of India .

Barke, who sympathized with the Prague Spring , terminated his contract when the GDR indirectly participated in the invasion of the ČSSR in 1968 and he had to justify his attitude to the studio staff. After working as a freelancer for a year, he was brought back to the DEFA studio for animated films in 1969, of which he was a member until 1991. Barke died in 2010 and was buried in the New Annenfriedhof .

Filmography

Direction and screenplay (animation short films)

1954: Katzenmusik (DEFA studio for popular science films) 1956: cat and mouse 1956: About the rabbit who didn't want to learn 1956: The stick figure 1958: Can a Chicken Do That? 1959: Six come across the world 1959: Aunt Minna and polytechnic lessons 1960: Alarm in the puppet theater 1963: Meow 1964: apricot trees 1965: pardon 1965: The flying grandfather 1965: I'm someone

1967: The little scaredy 1971: Father and the VMI 1971: The poor miller's boy and the kitten 1971: Take it easy, darling 1972: The winged serpent 1973: Heureka's Adventure - In the Mountains 1973: Heureka's adventure - while fishing 1975: Heureka's adventure - the message in a bottle 1977: That doesn't exist 1978: Before the day 1979: Rosaura 1985: The stolen face 1988: From the boy who wanted to learn to witch 1990: The secret of the old castle

Awards

• 1962: International Film Festival of India , Silver Lotus Flower, for Alarm in Puppet Theater
• 1975: Artur Becker Medal in silver
• 1986: GDR Art Prize for his services as a director
• 1987: Goldener Spatz 1987 , "Goldener Spatz" in the animation category for The Stolen Face
• 1987: Goldener Spatz 1987, award of the children's jury in the animation category for the stolen face
• 1989: Goldener Spatz 1989, honorary award in the animation category for the boy who wanted to learn witchcraft

literature

• Lothar Barke . In: Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze (ed.), DIAF, DEFA-Stiftung (ed.): Die Trick-Fabrik. DEFA animation films 1955–1990 . Bertz, Berlin 2003, p. 498.

Web links

• Lothar Barke at filmportal.de
• Lothar Barke in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Ralf Schenk : Obituary for Lothar Barke. In: film-dienst, No. 1/2011, page 26
2. ↑ ^{a b} His role model was Disney . In: Super-Illu , No. 15, April 4, 2007, p. 26.
3. ↑ Lothar Barke . In: Ralf Schenk, Sabine Scholze (ed.), DIAF, DEFA-Stiftung (ed.): Die Trick-Fabrik. DEFA animation films 1955–1990 . Bertz, Berlin 2003, p. 498.