Lothar Lambert

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Lothar Lambert during the film exhibition in the Tilsiter Lichtspiele cinema (November 2008)

Lothar Lambert (born July 24, 1944 in Rudolstadt , Thuringia ) is a German film director .

Life

Lambert grew up in Berlin , graduated from high school there and studied journalism at the Free University (Master's thesis: Alexander Kluge's farewell to yesterday and Edgar Reitz 's meals ).

Since the beginning of the 1970s, initially together with Wolfram Zobus , he has made over 30 films and, in addition to various functions behind the camera, often also played a role in them. The main characters of his productions are mostly fringe groups of society, such as homosexuals , transvestites , mentally disturbed people, but also foreigners. The action and shooting location is usually Berlin. Lothar Lambert often shot with a minimal budget he raised privately and with amateur actors who more or less played themselves. In the 1970s and early 1980s in particular, he enjoyed the stardom of an underground filmmaker because of his unconventional subjects , but never made a major commercial breakthrough. His film 1 Berlin-Harlem was bought by MoMA in New York.

The number of Lothar Lambert's contributions to the Berlinale is likely to be unique in the history of the major film festivals : a total of 17 films were screened at the Berlin Film Festival, most recently in 2010 his 35th film All My Standing Girls at the 60th Berlinale .

The Berlin cinema Tilsiter Lichtspiele dedicated to him in November 2008, a major retrospective.

Lothar Lambert lives in Berlin.

Dedications

"Nobody in Germany can rightly call himself an independent filmmaker than Lothar Lambert: So far 38 films since 1971, almost all financed out of his own pocket, as producer, director, screenwriter, actor and again and again as editor, cameraman, sound engineer, Lender. Cinema about sex and longings, self-fulfillment and psychological deformations, desires, well-being and woe of the little noticed in the (initially only West) Berlin urban jungle. And as authentic, shocking, tragicomic as you rarely find it in this country. Because they were unusually weird and “dirty” in terms of both content and form - especially by the good German standards - Lambert's works were quickly classified as “underground” in the 1970s. And have recently been increasingly ignored by critics and film historians. Having long since become documents of the zeitgeist and thus of contemporary history, it is overdue to (re-) discover these works. "

- Jan Gympel, author and film critic

“The best films don't come to the cinema after all. At least not in the big ones. And certainly not when they play in Berlin. At least when it comes to Berlin from below and from behind, where it is shrill and weird and trashy, in short: as it really is. Because just among us pastors' daughters: Berlin's capital city splendor is largely whitewash; what looks like precious metal here, mostly Talmi. And that's why you learn very little about this curious biotope on the Spree in those strips that are hit by the golden rain of the German film funding bureaucracy. That is why anyone who wants to know how Berlin has been ticking since the 1970s has to look at Lothar Lambert. Films like "1 Berlin Harlem" or "Fucking City". Trash fantasies like "Blond to the Blood" and "In the deep valley of the therapists". Because there they are all gathered, the outsiders and underdogs, the trannies, gays, Turks, blacks, depressives, fetish worshipers, who make Berlin more than, say, the government officials. "

- Tilman Krause, Senior Feature Editor, Die Welt

“Can do nothing, want everything, just do it. That could be a bit of Lothar Lambert's magical triple jump. Or better: can do everything, want nothing, just keep going? Hm, well, everything is correct, in any case - do it! Without money, without a name, without a script, without looking for a thousand reasons why it doesn't work, why it doesn't work out well, why it has long been told. Lambert does. In 40 years as an underground filmmaker, almost 40 films have come together. Has he received honorary titles such as “dirty filmmaker”, “king of the underground” or “Berlin's answer to Andy Warhol”. 17 of his films were shown at the Berlinale. One of his films - the racism drama "1 Berlin-Harlem" - was archived by the New York MoMA. Ingrid Caven, Jim Jarmusch, Brigitte Mira, Klaus Nomi, Norman Jewison, Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Evelyn Künneke played with him. Only the indie colleagues and riot boxes Rosa von Praunheim and Klaus Lemke could hold a candle to him in terms of cult potential and eye-rolling outrage about his sex and heartache films. "

- Gunda Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel

Filmography

  • 1971: Kurzschluss (co-director: Wolfram Zobus )
  • 1972: Ex und hopp (Co-Director: Wolfram Zobus)
  • 1973: A Shot of Longing - His Struggle (Co-Director: Wolfram Zobus)
  • 1974: 1 Berlin-Harlem (co-director: Wolfram Zobus)
  • 1976: Faux pas de deux
  • 1977: night performances
  • 1979: Now or never
  • 1979: Tiergarten
  • 1980: The nightmare woman
  • 1981: Fucking City
  • 1983: Paso doble
  • 1983: Miss Berlin
  • 1984: drama in blonde
  • 1984: The Sixth Sense (Co-Director: Dagmar Beiersdorf )
  • 1986: The love desert
  • 1986: Allow me, undertaker
  • 1987: Prohibition prohibited
  • 1988: love, death and little devils
  • 1989: You Elvis, I Monroe
  • 1991: What You Never Wanted to Know About Women
  • 1993: In good shape, badly off
  • 1995: In love-hate Lola
  • 1996: As much as I love - intimate confessions of two underground heroines
  • 1997: Blond down to the blood
  • 1998: And God created the make-up
  • 1998: Made in Moabit - A film family from the backyard
  • 2000: Damned in all vanity
  • 2001: Tormented Relatives or When the Nurse rings twice
  • 2003: I'm, thank God, in the film!
  • 2004: From the diary of a sex pug
  • 2005: kiss the camera!
  • 2007: As Showtime goes by
  • 2008: In the deep valley of the therapists
  • 2008: Hilka still wants
  • 2009: All my stand-up girls - By women who dare to do something
  • 2011: Back in the deep valley of the therapists
  • 2012: Knight of the risk round
  • 2015: Erika, my superstar or films until you drop
  • 2017: Damn it again Berlin - Fucking City revisited
  • 2019: Up, down - Lambert's collected one-act plays

literature

  • Stefan Menche: Lambert Underground - 20 films by Lothar Lambert Berlin 1971–1991 . Metro, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-928282-03-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Lamberts Kino on lothar-lambert.de
  2. ↑ For Lothar Lambert, Berlin was a "fucking city" Die Welt, June 28, 2014
  3. ↑ The Berlin scene filmmaker celebrates his 70th birthday Der Tagesspiegel, July 23, 2014
  4. ↑ All my stand-up girls - From women who dare to do something on Filmportal.de , online, accessed on July 24, 2015
  5. ↑ Erika, mein Superstar or Film Till You Drop on Filmportal.de , online, accessed on July 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lambert, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt