Martin Wiebel

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Martin Wiebel (born January 28, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German dramaturge , television editor and film producer .

Life

Martin Wiebel passed his Abitur at Diesterweg-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1962 . Until 1967 he studied German , theater studies , journalism and sociology at the Free University of Berlin .

Martin Wiebel began his professional career as a theater critic at the Spandauer Volksblatt (1966–1967) and as chief dramaturge at the Freie Volksbühne Theater in Berlin (1967–1970). From 1970 to 1998, with a short break, he worked at WDR in Cologne, initially as a dramaturge in the television play program area of ​​the WDR (1970–1988), from 1972 to 1978 also as head of the editorial group for projects / media criticism in the culture program of the WDR (glass house) . From 1989 to 1998 he was deputy head of the WDR program group television game. Since 1997 he has also worked as head of the editorial department for European cinema coproduction.

Since 1998 Martin Wiebel has been living in Berlin again as an independent film-TV consultant. From 1998 to 2003 he taught as a professor at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg in the field of creative producing .

From 1988 to 1989 Martin Wiebel was director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) . From 1997 to 2005 he was Vice President of the German Academy of Performing Arts . From 2000 to 2004, Martin Wiebel was President of the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival Jury of the German Academy of Performing Arts.

He has received numerous awards for his films.

Martin Wiebel has been the chairman of the KulturRaum Zwingli-Kirche association in Berlin-Friedrichshain since 2007 .

His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

On August 23, 2016, Martin Wiebel received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller (SPD). According to the press and information office of the State of Berlin, the award was made in recognition of the extensive artistic work of the dramaturge and producer in film and television as well as in recognition of his civic commitment to the KulturRaum Zwingli church in the district on Berlin's Rudolfplatz.

Martin Wiebel lives in Berlin and Provence and has been with Dorothee Reinhold-Wiebel since 1990.

Filmography (selection)

As the responsible dramaturge / producer of the television films and cinema-television coproductions:

  • 1970 The interrogation of Habana (Hans Magnus Enzensberger / Hagen Mueller-Stahl)
  • 1971 The Italian (Thomas Bernhard / Ferry Radax)
  • 1971 Red flags are easier to see (Theo Gallehr / Rolf Schübel)
  • 1980 A Man of Yesterday (Wolfgang Menge / Tom Toelle)
  • 1981 In the land of my parents (Janine Meerapfel)
  • 1982 In between (Doris Dörrie)
  • 1982 Fleeting acquaintances ( Dieter Wellershoff / Marianne Lüdcke)
  • 1983 Heller Wahn ( Margarethe von Trotta )
  • 1983 Right in the Heart (Doris Dörrie)
  • 1983 A love from Swann (Volker Schlöndorff based on Marcel Proust)
  • 1983 In the Sign of the Cross (Rainer Boldt / Hans Rüdiger Minow)
  • 1984 Super (Adolf Winkelmann)
  • 1984 The quiet poison (Erwin Keusch / Markus P. Nester)
  • 1986 Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta)
  • 1986 Die Reise (Markus Imhoof / Martin Wiebel)
  • 1987 A closed society (Heinrich Breloer)
  • 1988 Die Wupper (Jürgen Flimm / Else Lasker-Schüler)
  • 1988 The Break (Wolfgang Kohlhaase / Frank Beyer)
  • 1989 The Billion Game (Klaus Pohl / Peter Keglevic)
  • 1991 The end of innocence (Wolfgang Menge / Frank Beyer)
  • 1990 If you're late - the Politburo experiences the German Revolution (Cordt Schnibben / Jürgen Flimm)
  • 1990 My War (Harriet Eder / Thomas Kufus)
  • 1991 Karniggels (Detlev Buck)
  • 1993 We can do it differently (Detlev Buck / Ernst Kahl)
  • 1995 men's pension (Detlev Buck / Eckhard Theophil)
  • 1995 The Promise (Margarethe von Trotta)
  • 1995 Mothers Courage (Michael Verhoeven)
  • 1995 Nikolaikirche (Erich Loest / Frank Beyer)
  • 1995 The Drinker (Ulrich Plenzdorf / Tom Toelle)
  • 1997 Flames in Paradise (Markus Imhoof)
  • 1998 love your neighbor! (Detlev Buck)
  • 2000 Gloomy Sunday (Ruth Toma / Rolf Schübel)
  • 2000 anniversaries - from the life of Gesine Cresspahl (Margarethe von Trotta / Peter Steinbach / Christoph Busch)
  • 2003 Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta / Pam Katz)
  • 2012 Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta / Pam Katz)

As a writer / director:

  • 1978 Emergency. Homage to the contemporary mood. (WDR)
  • 1988 The magic tree. (After Peter Sloterdijk) (WDR)

European cinema co-production since 1997

  • La femme de chambre du Titanic (Bigas Luna)
  • Lola & Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman)
  • My name is Joe (Paul Laverty / Ken Loach)
  • Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
  • The croupier (Mike Hodges)

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Martin Wiebel (Ed.): Germany on the screen. The history of the Federal Republic in a television game. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt a. M. 1999, ISBN 3-88661-216-3
  • Martin Wiebel (ed.): Conjectures about Gesine. Uwe Johnson's 'Anniversaries' in the film adaptation of Margarethe von Trotta. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 3216) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2000, ISBN 3-518-39716-8 .
  • Martin Wiebel: East Side Story. Biography of a Berlin district. Antje Lange Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-928974-02-5 .
  • Martin Wiebel (Ed.): Hannah Arendt . Your thinking changed the world. The book for the film by Margarethe von Trotta. (Piper Taschenbuch 30175), Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-30175-6 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. www.bpb.de , accessed on February 11, 2013.
  2. Peter Richter: Good entertainment. There was a time when ARD and ZDF were paradise. One dared a lot - including failure. That was long ago. The editor Martin Wiebel knew this time. And its end. A visit . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 26, 2013, p. 3.
  3. Martin Wiebel Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
  4. Ex-KulturRaum boss Martin Wiebel received the Federal Cross of Merit , Berliner Woche Online, accessed on September 2, 2016
  5. ^ Press release from the State of Berlin
  6. ^ Zwingli Church cultural area