Martin Kirchberger

Martin Kirchberger ( April 4, 1960 - December 22, 1991 ) was a German film director .

Martin Kirchberger studied at the Offenbach am Main University of Design and was a co-founder of the Rüsselsheim artist group "Wendemaler" (designing building walls, etc.). He was the director and producer of satirical short films, especially pseudo-documentaries ( mockumentaries ) about bizarre people. Kirchberger was killed while filming the film “Bunkerlow” in a plane crash near Heidelberg in which almost the entire film team and extras, a total of 28 people, were killed. In memory of Kirchberger and his team, the Cinema Concetta Filmförderung was founded in October 1992 and has been organizing the Rüsselsheim Film Festival with satirical short films since 1994 . Bunkerlow was made in 1992 as a 19-minute short film by Karin Malwitz, the sister of the cameraman Ralf Malwitz, who was killed in the crash. The director Thomas Frickel , who is friends with Kirchberger, deals with the life and work of Kirchberger in his documentary film Miracles of Reality , published in 2017 .

Short films (selection)

• Buchholz stays
• Brendel in Speikern
• The lint collector
• Feel Frankfurt
• Natale
• Schgaguler

Web links

• Presentation of the Cinema Concetta film funding on the website of the Rüsselsheim Film Festival.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Abschlag, Maren Wagner: Das Vermächtnis Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, December 16, 2016, accessed on May 30, 2018.
2. ↑ Miracle of Reality ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the 67th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival , accessed on May 30, 2018.