Norbert Bunge
Norbert Bunge (* 1941 in Berlin ) is a German filmmaker , cameraman and photographer . He runs a photo gallery in Berlin.
Life
Bunge has made numerous documentaries since 1974 , initially as a cameraman and later as a director and producer . In addition to portraits of well-known artists such as George Grosz , Peter Weiss and Fritz Cremer , the subjects of his films are in particular National Socialism and Apartheid . His films have been shown in cinemas, on television and at numerous film festivals.
In 1996 he opened the gallery argus fotokunst in Berlin-Mitte, which is dedicated to the photography of the 20th century, especially b & w photography. As a gallery owner, Norbert Bunge focused on bringing East German photography closer to a larger audience. He exhibited works by Arno Fischer , Ursula Arnold , Helga Paris , Uwe Steinberg , Barbara Berthold , Ulrich Wüst , Christian Borchert , Sibylle Bergemann , Roger Melis and Manfred Paul , among others . At the same time, he regularly created a forum for important photographers who were hardly or hardly known in Germany, such as Clemens Kalischer , Ragnar Axellson , Hans Hammarskiöld and Will McBride .
Filmography
- 1976: Ties for the Olympics (camera)
- 1983: Stand up and resist (camera)
- 1985: Work in the Mehringhof or Paths to Paradise (camera)
- 1985: Namibia - For Us Still Southwest (TV) (Director, Book)
- 1989: My Name Is Bertolt Brecht - Exile in USA (production, direction, script, camera)
- 1991: Forbidden Sounds - Music under the swastika (TV) (Director, Camera)
- 1992: It's beautiful in the labyrinth - George Grosz in America (production, direction, script, camera)
- 1993: kissed the devil on the buttocks (camera)
- 1995: Get off everything ...! - An S-Bahn station and the turning point (documentary) (camera)
- 2004: Forbidden Sounds - Composers in Exile (Documentary)
Exhibitions (photographer)
- "next door and elsewhere", Otto-Nagel-Galerie, Berlin, 2006 (with catalog)
Publications
- with Denis Brudna (ed.): Clemens Kalischer. Hatje Cantz, 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1129-5 .
- as publisher dacapo. Photographs by Dirk Alvermann. Kettler, 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-22-0 .
- Mathias Bertram (Ed.): Norbert Bunge. Photographs. Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-95797-059-6 .
Web links
- Norbert Bunge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Norbert Bunge at filmportal.de
- Biography (argus fotokunst)
- David Hornback on Norbert Bunge
Individual evidence
- ^ Delhi Film Archive
- ↑ Utopia and Reality. East German Photography 1956 to 1989. ( Memento from June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Forum Photography
- ↑ Get off everything: An S-Bahn station and the turning point. In: Vimeo . August 30, 2013, accessed January 14, 2020 .
- ^ Forbidden Sounds - Composers in Exile. jpc.de , accessed on September 17, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bunge, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker, cameraman and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |