Martin Schliessler

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Martin Schliessler (born June 3, 1929 in Mannheim ; † September 4, 2008 ) was a German adventurer, filmmaker and artist.

Life

Schliessler's parents were the artists Otto and Gertrud Schliessler. He has worked on more than 200 nature and expedition films, including Im Schatten des Karakoram as the second cameraman. The film was awarded the Great Bronze Plaque (documentary and cultural film) at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1955 .

Schliessler was best known through his trips to Alaska, where he made films about the construction of the pipeline, Eskimos , animals, prospectors and contemporary rituals until the 1970s . One of his highlights there was climbing Mount McKinley with mountaineer Ray Genet in 1967, which they broke off shortly before reaching the top. When Schliessler crashed in an airplane in 1974, he survived unharmed and filmed the days leading up to his rescue.

In 1979 he moved with his family to Vancouver in Canada and was most recently active as an artist, depicting his experiences in the form of sculpture. He lost his voice as a result of illness. He died in seclusion in 2008, after having made himself available again three years earlier for the documentary On Gone in Footsteps by Wolfram Giese and his son Jochen.

His marriage to his wife Anemone had four children, including the cameraman Tobias A. Schliessler (* 1958), the photographer and illustrator Tina Schliessler (* 1962) and the documentary filmmaker Jochen Schliessler (* 1964).

Awards

  • 1956: Film tape in silver for Im Zauber der Kordillereren (above-average full-length cultural film)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ https://www.fernsehserien.de/martin-verbindler/filmografie
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Schliessler (1929-2008) , bad-bad.de, accessed on January 26, 2014
  4. ↑ Schliessler, Martin , d-nb.info, accessed on January 26, 2014
  5. ↑ Prizes & Awards 1955 , berlinale.de, accessed on January 26, 2014
  6. ↑ Film by Wolfram Giese and Jochen Schliesser ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , phoenix.de, accessed on January 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phoenix.de
personal data
SURNAME Schliessler, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German adventurer, filmmaker and artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2008