National Feature Film Festival of the GDR

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The GDR National Feature Film Festival was a film festival established in 1980 in the GDR for exclusively national feature film productions. It was held for the first time from April 24th to 27th in Karl-Marx-Stadt . The GDR National Feature Film Festival was probably the most important film event in the GDR alongside the Gera National Festival “Goldener Spatz” for GDR children's films in cinema and television and the Documentary Film Festival in Neubrandenburg . The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the GDR, the Association of Film and TV Makers of the GDR in cooperation with the Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Kurt Maetzig , President of the Festival Committee, opened the event under the motto “Good films, no disposable goods” with the DEFA strip All my girls by director Iris Gusner . The venue, Karl-Marx-Stadt, with the cultural complex opened in 1974, consisting of the town hall and the affiliated Interhotel “Congress”, presented ideal conditions for “the filmmakers to be accountable to the working people of the Karl-Marx-Stadt working-class district”.

The film festival took place every two years in mid-May and presented productions from this period. Each competition entry was awarded a diploma and the corresponding prize, the "Steiger". A total of ten films were included in the competition.

In 1990 the festival was held for the first and last time in the Berlin Kino International .

1st National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1980)

jury

In addition to a jury of film experts, chaired by the New Germany film critic Horst Knietzsch , there was a twelve-person audience jury chaired by FDJ Secretary Peter Reichert, which awarded a special prize, the “Great Steiger”. The "Großer Steiger" was a 68 cm high wooden sculpture, which was created by Egon Rehm , the head of the Annaberg wood carving school at the time.

  • President of the jury of film experts: Horst Knietzsch (film critic)
    • Werner Klier (Director of the District Film Directorate), Dieter Mann (actor), Gerhard Meyer (General Director of the Städtische Theater), Rolf Richter (film scholar), Dieter Schiller (literary scholar), Hans-Dieter Tok (film critic), Margit Voss (film critic), Joachim Werzlau (composer), Dieter Wiedemann (film sociologist), Paul Wiens (writer) and Ingrid Wille (cultural scientist).
  • Chairman of the audience jury: Peter Reichert
    • and a further eleven members not named

Competition entries

Award winners

Expert jury

Audience jury

  • “Großer Steiger” in the “Prize for the most effective film” category: Sabine Wulff - Director: Erwin Stranka
  • "Großer Steiger" in the "Prize for the most successful portrayal of a worker personality" category: Lissy Tempelhof for her role as master Maria Boltzin in All My Girls

2nd National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1982)

Award winners

Expert jury

Foundling price

From the second festival in 1982, the Association of Film Clubs awarded the Foundlings Prize. The judges were chosen by the film clubs.

Audience jury

Trivia

As part of the 2nd National Feature Film Festival of the GDR, the Clubkino Capitol was opened on April 20, 1982 in the Siegmar district of Karl Marx . In the previous months, the ailing movie theater had been redesigned into a club cinema with swivel armchairs at tables, a terraced slope, catering in the hall and a built-in stage. The new Clubkino Capitol was the third of its kind in what was then the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. Today it is the only art house cinema in the city of Chemnitz.

3rd National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1984)

Award winners

Expert jury

Foundling price

Audience jury

  • Audience Award “Großer Steiger”: The Stay - Director: Frank Beyer

4th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1986)

Award winners

Expert jury

Foundling price

Lothar Warneke for Blond Tango

Audience jury

5th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1988)

Award winners

Expert jury

Foundling price

Audience jury

  • Audience Award “Großer Steiger”: One Carrying Another's Burden - Director: Lothar Warneke

6th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR (1990)

Award winners

Expert jury

Foundling price

literature

  • Film mirror. No. 6, 1980, pp. 6 and 7.
  • Film mirror. No. 10, 1980, p. 2.
  • Tad B. Hammer: International film prizes: an encyclopedia. St. James Press, Chicago et al. 1991, pp. 154-156. (English edition)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Festival President Kurt Maetzig in Filmspiegel . No. 6, 1980, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung . May 28, 1990, p. 4.
  3. ↑ defa.de
  4. ↑ film-zeit.de ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  5. ↑ Wieland Becker , Volker Petzold : Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR . VISTAS, Berlin 2001.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 26, 1986, p. 4
  7. ↑ film-zeit.de ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  8. ↑ defa-stiftung.de