Lothar Spree

Lothar Friedrich Spree (born November 16, 1942 in Willingen , Waldeck; † December 6, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German film director, author and producer, professor (foreign expert and DAAD lecturer) at Tongji University Shanghai , associate professor at of the State University of Design Karlsruhe and honorary professor at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Life

The son of a two-wheeler dealer attended secondary school in Mülheim Ruhr until 1958, then completed an apprenticeship as a commercial artist at GRAFA Grafische Anstalt Fried. Krupp in Essen with distinction, which enabled him to study at the Ulm School of Design (hfg ulm) in 1961 . With the establishment of the Institute for Film Design Ulm at the hfg ulm in 1962, he studied film with Alexander Kluge , Edgar Reitz and Detten Schleiermacher until 1968.

After studying and teaching at the University of Waterloo in Canada and one year as a director and producer in New Jersey (1970/71), he was appointed Professor for Electronic Arts at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto .

In 1975 he founded lothar spree film production in Frankfurt am Main , developed program concepts and produced countless films for the newly emerging youth program of ZDF until 1988. In many of these productions he worked closely with Wilfried Rimensberger, Creative Producer in London, for example at Rock In Rio and many student express programs. After years in the free media industry with productions for well-known large companies, museums, etc., he returned to television with many cultural documentaries. Many of his films on archeology and media, art and science, opera and stage design, architecture and design, music and artist portraits were shown on ZDF, WDR, SWR, ORF, DRS, RAI and above all ARTE.

In 1992 he was appointed professor for media art / film by Heinrich Klotz to found the new State University for Design Karlsruhe and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Here he developed, among other things, an influential EU project on media and science - CHAMP - Çatal Höyük Archeology and Media Project, which, as a model project under the direction of Cambridge University UK Ian Hodder , attracted worldwide attention. The topic of archeology and media became a special topic for the Spree (DAI, Universities Ankara, Cambridge, Karlsruhe, Tübingen) at film festivals (Cinarchea Kiel, Athens, Rovereto) and on television (e.g. Schliemann's Erben ZDF, RAI) for several years. Together with Edgar Reitz, he founded and directed the EIKK European Institute for Cinema Karlsruhe (1995–2002). From 2000 to 2002 he took over the management of the film department at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main.

In 2003 he accepted a call from Tongji University Shanghai to set up a film department at the newly established College of Communication & Art , which was supported by a five-year long-term DAAD professorship . In 2009, the newly founded College of Design & Innovation at CAUP (College of Architecture & Urban Planning at Tongji University) appointed him professor for digital media design . Spree worked and lived in Shanghai and Berlin, produced films, documentaries, media and media art and worked as an expert in setting up media and exchange programs at international media universities.

In addition to his work as an author and producer, Spree recently worked as a professor at numerous universities (including the Free University of Berlin and the Tongji University in Shanghai ). He has a son, Titus Spree, with the filmmaker Recha Jungmann . He died on December 6, 2013 at the age of 71 after a brief serious illness in Berlin.

Filmography

Movies

• 1964: Desertion , 15 min 35mm, screenplay, director, hfg ulm
• 1965: BeatBürger - Either you make it big ... 70min 35mm, screenplay, direction, NFP / hfg ulm / iffg ulm / ARD
• 1965/66: Farewell to yesterday , co-author of the screenplay, Alexander Kluge, Kairos film
• 1966: Manfred , 15 min 35mm, screenplay, direction, NFP / hfg ulm
• 1967: Happiness , 1min 35mm, screenplay, director, hfg ulm, EXPO'67 Montreal
• 1972: Parade , 20min, 16mm, direction, production, Belphegor Inc.
• 1973: Sarah's War , 24min 16mm, screenplay, direction, production, Belphegor Inc.
• 1974: Things from the Land , feature film script.
• 1974: Windmill's Fists , screenplay for a feature film with an award from the Canada Council of the Arts.
• 1976: The trip to Lyon , co-author of the screenplay, Claudia von Alemann
• 1986: On the trail of love , TV series 8x30min, Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, screenplay, IFAGE

TV films (selection)

• 1977/78: First love , 16mm, 30 + 60min, feature film, director, production, co-script, lsfp (lothar spree film production) / ZDF
• 1979: The storming of the 7th heaven , 16mm, 35min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1980: Try it with tenderness , 16mm 70min, feature film, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1982: Theres and Tanja , 16mm 70min, feature film, screenplay, director, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1983: Living under Hitler , 16mm 70min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1984: Gustav, all! - Fiction 90min, screenplay, SFB
• 1984: Hot ears , feature film 90min, director, SFB
• 1985: Rock in Rio , 16mm 35min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1987: Crazy Worlds - The Careers of Stefan Wewerka , 16mm 30min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1988 Archeology & Show Business / News from Pompei , 16mm 30min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1989: Der MusikTheaterMacher - Harry Kupfer , 16mm 80min, screenplay, director, ZDF / IFAGE Prod./ ZDF / ARTE
• 1990: The avant-garde takes a break - German design , 16mm 45min, script, direction, production, lsfp / WDR / goethe INTERNATIONES
• 1991: Old gold and new myths - The hunt for the lost treasure of Priam , 16mm 45min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF
• 1992: Lulu's foster father - the music publisher Alfred Schlee , Beta 62min, screenplay, director, ZDF / ORF
• 1993: Mendelssohn and so on ... - 300 years of Leipzig , the city of music , screenplay, direction, production / ZDF
• 1994: Order Chaos Creativity - Chaos Life ..., 2x30min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ARTE
• 1995: Schliemann's heirs - On the trail of great campaigns , 45min, screenplay, director, Aspect TV / ZDF
• 1997: Stage fright - Clara Schumann piano competition , 60min, screenplay, director, ZDF
• 1998: Driving space - from the work journal of Hans Schavernoch , 60min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF / ARTE
• 1999: With the computer into the Stone Age - old world and new media , 60min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF / ARTE
• 2003: When Venus sings ... , 30min, screenplay, direction, production, lsfp / ZDF / ARTE
• 2004: One for Schabbach - making of HEIMAT 3 , 30min, screenplay, direction, camera, production, lsfp SWR

DVDs

• 1996: Çatal Höyük - ... as People began to live in Cities CD-ROM, production, Hfg Karlsruhe / Uni Karlsruhe / EIKK
• 1999: 799 - Aspects of a turning point - Charlemagne - The Making of Europe , interactive exhibition installation in 5 language versions, script, direction, production, EU MEDIA / lsfp.
• 2000: The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway / cinema lectures 1 , CD-ROM, direction, production, EIKK
• 2001: Margarethe von Trotta Anniversaries / cinema lectures 2 , CD-ROM, direction, production, EIKK
• 2003: Subversive Archeology / Media Presentation, screenplay, Humboldt University Berlin
• 2007: CDHK image film / teaching production of the College of Communication & ARt, Beijing University, hfg_OF for DAAD / Chinese-German college at Tongji University in Shanghai
• 2008: 40 + 4 Art is not enough. Not enough! DVD and book, Palazzo Strozzi CCC / arthub, Florence / eArt Festival 2008 Shanghai

Articles, books (selection)

• 1980: Der Freiheit aber - poems and poems , Verlag Stroemfeld / Roter Stern Frankfurt
• 1983: Dictatorship , collaboration on the paperback by Klaus Kordon based on the film Leben Unter Hitler ... , documentary ZDF
• 1983: Scratches on the Soul , paperback book for young people about the film, Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg
• 1987: Small advertisement , in: Literature in Frankfurt - A lexicon for reading, Ed. Peter Hahn, athenäum Verlag
• 1993: Film aesthetics in the digital age - a requirement for media art, - The State University of Design Karlsruhe, contribution to Erlkönig's heirs - Perspektiven der Medienkunst, Verlag 235 Media Cologne
• 1994: Edgar Reitz -Kino , a conversation with Heinrich Klotz and Lothar Spree, series of publications by the Karlsruhe University of Design, Volume 3, published by Heinrich Klotz, Cantz Verlag Stuttgart
• 1995: Films against oblivion , In conversation Lothar Spree, in Mediagramm - ZKM magazine / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe No. 18,
• 1996: Virtual Time , author, in hfg forum No. 16, 14th year, Offenbach am Main University of Design
• 1997: Experiments of Applications - The Karlsruhe Media Complex , contribution to the EVA'96 Congress in London in the National Galerry and the Royal College of Art
• 1997: Çatal Höyük - when people began to live in cities , CD-ROM production, published by PM Magazin
• 1999: Cain, Able & Cable - Filmculture in Transition , co-editor, EIKK / Amsterdam University Press
• 2000: Science or Art - Antagonisms for Clarity? Contribution to Cinarchea - Perspectives on Archeology-Film-Art, Ed. Kurt Denzer , Verlag Ludwig, Kiel
• 2003: Film as media art , author, HfG Karlsruhe
• 2004: Bauhaus in Shanghai , author, DAAD China / Tongji University Shanghai
• 2008: Is there really space for creativity? Essay, arthub Shanghai / Hong Kong
• 2009: The Electronic Zoo - Illustrated Textbook for Media Education, with Dirk Schulz MA, Tongji / Selavy Shanghai / Hong Kong

Awards

• 1975: Prix Danube, Golden Award Journalism, Best Youth Program, Bratislava
• 1978: Prix Jeunesse, Best Youth program, TV Youth Program, Munich
• 1980: Christopherus Award, Best Traffic Educational Program
• 1980: Mannheim Youthfilm Festival, Best Fiction Youth Film
• 1981: Prix Danube, Best Documentary, Bratislava
• 1988: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver, for Crazy Worlds , Marl
• 1989: MediaSaveArt, Innovative Archeology Film Awards, Heritage Media Programs, Rome
• 1990: Golden Prague, Journalists's Award Best Musical Program, TV Program Competition
• 1994–1999: Cinarchea, Nominations / Specials, Archaeological Film Festival, Special performances

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Spree in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lothar Spree in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• lothar spree film production