Lothar Warneke

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Lothar Warneke (born September 15, 1936 in Leipzig , † June 5, 2005 in Potsdam ) was a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Born in Leipzig as the son of a commercial clerk, Lothar Warneke studied theology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1954 to 1959 . Then the vicar resigned from the church. From 1960 to 1964 Warneke studied directing at what was then the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg . After assistant directors in the DEFA studio for feature films with Joachim Kunert , Egon Günther and Kurt Maetzig , the crime grotesque Mit mir nicht, Madam! Followed in 1968 in co-direction with Roland Oehme . .

His first independent film Dr. med. Sommer II (1969) showed Warneke's style of documentary-filmed scenes from everyday life in the GDR. His subsequent films It's an old story (1972, conflicted love among medical students) and Life with Uwe (1973, conflicts between marriage and work for a scientist-married couple) were similar, but less successful. Warneke's only historical film, Addio, piccola mia (1979, about Georg Büchner - based on a scenario by Helga Schütz ) followed the contemporary film The incorrigible Barbara (1976 ).

The film adaptation of Brigitte Reimann's novel Franziska Linkerhand , entitled Our Short Life (1980), was viewed with suspicion due to the obvious criticism of GDR society. The drama Die Beunruhigung (1982), based on an autobiographical scenario by Helga Schubert, tells of a woman with cancer. This film was shot in documentary black and white to strengthen the authentic effect. In 1983 he was considered to direct the film Martin Luther based on a book by Helga Schütz . However, the film was not made for unexplained reasons.

Lothar Warneke's greatest success was his last directorial work: One carries the other's load (1987) philosophizes in the context of a story set in the GDR in the 1950s about the relationship between communists and the church. The main actors received the Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlinale for the award-winning plea for tolerance .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he no longer received any film funding for his projects, but continued to teach at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy. He last lived in Reinsdorf, part of the Niederer Fläming community .

Warneke was also known for his unique film camera collection.

Awards

Filmography

literature

  • Lothar Warneke, Erika Richter : "... and only the law can give us freedom." Memories . In: Ralf Schenk , Erika Richter (eds.): Apropos: Film 2002. The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation . Bertz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929470-23-3 , pp. 53-87.
  • Klaus Wischnewski: On Lothar Warneke's oeuvre. Annotated filmography . In: Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (eds.): Apropos: Film 2002. The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation . Bertz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929470-23-3 , pp. 88-106.
  • Lothar Bisky : Lothar Warneke on his 65th birthday . In: Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter (eds.): Apropos: Film 2002. The yearbook of the DEFA Foundation . Bertz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929470-23-3 , pp. 50-52.
  • Ralf Schenk:  Warneke, Lothar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Horst Dähn: Luther and the GDR. Berlin, 1996: ISBN 3-929161-81-8 , page 102

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personal data
SURNAME Warneke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2005
Place of death Potsdam