Miklós Gimes (journalist)
Miklós Gimes (born 1950 in Budapest ) is a Swiss newspaper journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Life
Miklós Gimes is a son of the Hungarian politician Miklós Gimes , who was executed in 1958 after the Hungarian uprising was put down in 1956 . Gimes managed to escape to Switzerland in 1956 with his mother Luci (1921–2008) and the family of an aunt.
Gimes studied economics at the University of Zurich and has worked for the Tages-Anzeiger since 1985 . From 1990 he was editor of the magazine des Tages-Anzeiger, from 1994 to 1997 he was deputy editor-in-chief. From 1997 he reduced his work at the newspaper in order to focus more on film. Gimes received the Zurich Journalism Prize in 2000 . In 2002, Gimes made the film Mother about his mother and grandmother, the Hungarian psychoanalyst Lilly Hajdu-Gimes, for Swiss television , and in 2010 a documentary about the newspaper colleague and fraudster Tom Kummer followed .
Works (selection)
- Fonts
- Editing: Reconstruction: Stories and History in Film. Collection of articles. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel 1988.
- Editors: Cinemas Speeches: Notes and remarks. Collection of articles. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel 1990.
- Movie
- Mother. T&C Film, Swiss TV, 95 minutes, Switzerland 2002.
- Bad boy grief. T&C Film, Columbus Film. 92 minutes, Switzerland 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Miklós Gimes in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Miklós Gimes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Miklós Gimes , short biography at Filmbrut
- Miklós Gimes , at tagesanzeiger.ch
- Gimes Miklós , at port.hu (hu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mother , at Arsenal (Berlin)
- ↑ Bettina Spoerri : “An extremely hounded man” , interview, in: NZZ, October 12, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gimes, Miklós |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss newspaper journalist and documentary filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |