Niels Bolbrinker

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Niels Bolbrinker (born 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German director and documentary filmmaker .

life and work

After studying photography and graduating in visual communication, Niels Bolbrinker worked as a freelance cameraman and director since the mid-1970s. In 1976 he was one of the founders of the Wendland Film Cooperative, an association of documentary filmmakers in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district, which is still dominated by the anti-nuclear movement . Bolbrinker was awarded the Federal Film Prize in 1977 as a cameraman and for the editing of “Do right and shy nobody” .

As a director and cameraman, Bolbrinker realized a number of socially critical documentary film projects, such as “It's a shame that concrete doesn't burn” (1981) or “Everything under control. Notes on the way to the surveillance state ”(1983). For the film "Zwischenzeit", about the resistance against the nuclear industry, Bolbrinker was awarded the Film Critics' Prize in 1986 .

1995 began with the documentary “Original Wolfen. From the history of a film factory ”his collaboration with Kerstin Stutterheim. Together, in 1998, the two realized the film "Bauhaus - Myth and Modernity" and "The Thuranos - Life on a Wire" (2003) about the artist dynasty of the same name. In 2009, “With Flies and Angels” followed, a documentary about the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov .

In addition to working as a documentary filmmaker, Bolbrinker continues to work as a cameraman in various film and television productions.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2018: Building the future - 100 years of Bauhaus
  • 2014: Between utopia and counter-revolution - a short film about the lives of Emmi and Werner Scholem
  • 2014: Reality is coming
  • 2012: Built with light - a ship of life by Hans Scharoun
  • 2009: flies and angels
  • 1995: Original Wolfen
  • 1981: It's a shame that concrete doesn't burn
  • 1977: Do right and don't be afraid of anyone

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Werner Scholem - a Jewish revolutionary in Germany (1895-1940) ( Memento from November 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), matinee with reading, film and exhibition opening, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , September 13, 2014 ( short film online on YouTube )
personal data
SURNAME Bolbrinker, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg