Norbert Westenrieder

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Norbert Westenrieder (born January 20, 1947 in Munich ; † November 14, 2013 ) was a German documentary filmmaker and non-fiction author .

Life

Norbert Westenrieder came to Würzburg at the age of six . He later studied philosophy and history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In the 1960s, Westenrieder began making his own films. In 1974 he was one of the co-founders of the Internationales Filmwochenende Festival in Würzburg . In the 1980s, he shot numerous documentaries about everyday life in Nazi Germany for Hessischer Rundfunk . Including the documentaries: Work and Bread , Labor Front , Life in the Third Reich or Pogrom in the Province . In 1989, on Hitler’s 100th birthday, the ARD broadcast Norbert Westenrieder’s report Bündnis des Unheils - Die Deutschen und Hitler . In 2005, Norbert Westenrieder was honored at the Würzburg Festival with an exhibition of his own films.

In addition to his work as a documentary filmmaker, Westenrieder also worked as a non-fiction author, historian and IT consultant. Among other things, the band Deutsche Frauen und Mädchen! Was published in 1984 by Droste Verlag Düsseldorf . From everyday life 1933 - 1945 . Norbert Westenrieder last lived in Randersacker near Würzburg. He died on November 14, 2013 at the age of 66 after suffering from cancer for a long time.

Documentaries (selection)

  • 1985: Work and Bread: How the National Socialists Eliminated Unemployment; a film, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 45 min, country: Germany, color: b & w and color
  • 1985: Labor front: what did National Socialism do for the workers ?, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 75 min, country: Germany color: black and white and color
  • 1986: Napola: Education for the elite in the Third Reich, director: Norbert Westenrieder and Karoline Reifarth, length: 45 min Country: Germany Color: black and white and color
  • 1987: Life in the Third Reich / 1, The Everyday Life of the Volksgenossen: 1933 - 1939, Director: Norbert Westenrieder, Length: 43 min Country: Germany Color
  • 1988: Life in the Third Reich / 2, deprivation on the home front: 1939 - 1945, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 43 min Country: Germany Color: black and white
  • 1988: Pogrom in the provinces: persecution of the Jews in Hesse, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 45 min, country: Germany, color: black and white and color
  • 1988: Help and destroy: "Volkspflege" in the Third Reich, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 45 min, country: Germany, color: black and white and color
  • 1989: Alliance of Unheils - The Germans and Hitler, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 59 min, country: Germany, color: black and white and color
  • 1990: The Cold War and the Germans; Hardened fronts, 1950–1955, director: Norbert Westenrieder, length: 45 min. Country: Germany Color: black and white and color
  • 1993: The high price of utopia: National bankruptcy of the GDR, director: Norbert Westenrieder, Germany Color: black and white and color

Non-fiction

  • 1980: Fascism foundations and development of a social "new order"; a documentation, publisher: Hess. Broadcasting, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984: German women and girls! From everyday life 1933-1945, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf
  • 1990: The Cold War and the Germans -49, Publisher: Hess. Broadcasting, Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Norbert Westenrieder. In: Heidy M. Müller : Töchter und Mütter in German-language narrative prose from 1885 to 1935. , Iudicium Verlag, 1991, p. 34

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Westenrieder. In: Margit Maier : The business with dreams: cinema culture in Würzburg. , Königshausen & Neumann, 2009, p. 140
  2. ^ Obituary for Norbert Westenrieder in Main-Post
  3. ↑ Norbert Westenrieder. In: Heinz Schreckenberg : Upbringing, lifeworld and war deployment of the German youth under Hitler: Notes on literature. , LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, p. 401
  4. ↑ Death Norbert Westenrieder in Doolia
personal data
SURNAME Westenrieder, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2013