Norbert Beilharz

Norbert Beilharz (born August 27, 1939 in Haifa ; † April 21, 2019 in Stuttgart ) was a German filmmaker , screenwriter , actor and director .

Life

Beilharz was the son of Swabian Templars who were in Haifa. He grew up in Germany and attended schools in the Calw , Wilhelmsdorf and Stuttgart districts .

Beilharz trained as a bookseller as well as an actor. He was active as an actor and speaker, also for radio plays and poetry .

From 1969, films and journalistic films were made about productions in drama, opera , ballet, as well as literature and music.

Beilharz's specialties were documentaries (including about Giorgio Strehler ), as well as films with actors and musicians. The materials processed by him include u. a. Don Juan , Orpheus , Georg Büchner , García Lorca , Friedrich Hölderlin , Nikolaus Lenau , Christian Wagner .

Filmography (selection)

actor

• 1967: Fried potatoes included (feature film)

Documentaries

• 1971 Bridged Continents - Max Ackermann (45 min.)
• 1972 The visions of the painter Aratym (30 min.)
• 1972 Elias Canetti and Alfred Hrdlicka at Valentien - On mass and power (35 min.)
• 1972 Axel Arndt - While painting and drinking (30 min.)
• 1972 All of a sudden it goes away - Hölderlin fragments (10 min.)
• 1980 Where am I going - Hölderlin in France (60 min.)
• 1981 Max Frisch and Don Juan (30 min.)
• 1985 Friedrich Hölderlin's elegy "Stuttgart" (20 min.)
• 1985 An asylum seeker at the Christmas market - Georg Büchner in Strasbourg (60 min.)
• 1985 Paradise Lost - Portrait Christian Wagner (60 min.)
• 1986 The Only Story - Friederike Roth (30 min.)
• 1987 Poet and farmer - based on Josef Winkler's novel The Abduction (45 min.)
• 1990 Rosalie with a banana blossom (45 min.)
• 1996 Platens Galerie - Platen In Syrakus (30 min.)
• 1998 Only now (B) right - Brecht in Salzburg (60 min.)
• 1998 Life is a terrible interruption of nothing - Brigitte Hamann on Sisi (26 min.)
• 2000 The moviegoer Ilse Aichinger in Vienna (60 min.)
• 2000 The Split Lifeline - Sten Nadolny in Dresden (30 min.)
• 2006 Score of a friendship Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze (90 min.)
• 2012 The Measurement of Fame - Daniel Kehlmann (52 min.)

Web links

• Homepage of Norbert Beilharz
• Norbert Beilharz in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nekrolog April 2019. In: Munzinger Online. Retrieved June 19, 2020 . 
2. ^ Götz Thieme: Inflamed to the last for art . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . April 25, 2019, p. 16 (occupies the dates of death).
3. ↑ Götz Thieme: Film author Beilharz has died. The 79-year-old was on fire for art to the last. In: Esslinger Zeitung. April 24, 2019, accessed June 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Norbert Beilharz: Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 26, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2020 (includes the birthday; the year of birth not mentioned).