Oliver Herbrich

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Oliver Herbrich (* 1961 in Munich ) is a German filmmaker and works as a screenwriter , film director , documentary filmmaker and film producer .

Life

Before graduating from high school, Herbrich made his cinema debut "The proud and sad life of Mathias Kneißl " in 1979 with the support of the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film . Although Herbrich was enrolled in the feature film department of the Munich University of Television and Film from 1980 , it was here that his first two documentaries were made, which were shot under adverse conditions in the Australian desert and in the Amazon rainforest. Since then he has worked both fictionally and documentarily.

After completing his studies, he turned back to fiction in 1984. “Wodzeck”, an adaptation of Georg Büchner'sWoyzeck ,” ran as a German entry in the competition at the Moscow International Film Festival and was awarded for “Best Male Leading Role”. The film was presented at 20 other festivals. As an auteur filmmaker (Herbrich is involved in all films as a director, screenwriter and producer) he is a representative of the New German Cinema of the 1980s and 90s. In order to have his own production equipment such as film cameras and editing tables, Herbrich founded the technology service provider LICHT & TON GmbH, which existed until 2010.

After the success of “Wodzeck”, other documentaries followed. “Bikini - mon amour” about the long-term consequences of the aboveground atomic bomb test (like “In Search of El Dorado” before) reached an audience of millions when the film was broadcast in prime time on ARD . In 1985/86, Herbrich realized a documentary biopic with the Bavarian breakout king Theo Berger , which also caused a sensation, but was not broadcast on Bavarian television . After the theatrical release it was broadcast on WDR , for which the film had to be subtitled in High German.

In 1988 the “Filmmaker Distribution Cooperative” brought out Herbrich's films in the edition “Fiction - Non-Fiction”. In the same year he shot his third feature film, “Erdenschwer”, which was inspired by the life story of Gustav Mesmer and worked on it fictionally. The film with Hannes Thanheiser , Rüdiger Vogler and Vera Chekhova in the leading roles received international awards.

Oliver Herbrich concluded his career as a filmmaker with two cinema documentaries that were shot in Nepal and Ireland. In 1994 he was awarded the Munich City Film Prize for his oeuvre .

In 2016-18 the films archived in the Federal Film Archive were digitally remastered and re-released in the “Fiction - Non-Fiction Film Edition”. In addition to the Filmmuseum Munich , the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf also has a collection of analog (16- and 35-mm) film copies , which has also been archiving its written papers since 2018.

Working method

Dieter Kosslick described Oliver Herbrich's working method on the occasion of the Munich Film Prize in 1994 as follows: " Thank God Herbrich does not make an ideology out of his wandering between feature film and documentary film . What he is interested in is what form of media implementation seems to suit the subject. But it is interesting That there is a mixture of documentary and fictional. There is that sequence in “Mathias Kneißl” when the folk hero is cornered by an entire gendarme company. Scenic violence develops that makes one think of documentary reports ...

Conversely, there are also inclusions of the fictional in the documentary. The images of the pits in “In Search of El Dorado”, from which sackclothes carry the earth away, are reminiscent of monumental feature films and thus give the documentary an exaggeration that reveals the generality of the individual case. If you will, a report on human behavior, on the mechanisms of reality. Pushing boundaries, pushing boundaries. This is to be taken literally in Herbrich's work. (Dieter Kosslick, 1994)

Movies

  • 1979/80: The proud and sad life of Matthias Kneißl
  • 1983: Dead Heart
  • 1983/84: In search of El Dorado
  • 1983/84: Wodzeck
  • 1985/86: The Al Capone from Donaumoos
  • 1986/87: The world beyond the world
  • 1987: Bikini - mon amour
  • 1988/89: Earth-heavy
  • 1991: Priest of the Damned
  • 1992/93: Rules of the Road (Law of the Road)

Awards

  • 1980 and 1984 “particularly valuable” rating for “Mathias Kneißl” and “In search of El Dorado”
  • 1985 Prix d'Antenne II, Paris (Festival Cinema du Reél) for “In Search of El Dorado”; 2nd Price Cinestud Filmfest, Amsterdam for “In Search of El Dorado”; Best male actor (International Film Festival Moscow) for Detlef Kügow in "Wodzeck"
  • 1989 Honorable Mention 4th Medikinale International Parma, Italy for “Bikini - mon amour”; Honorable Mention Red Cross and Health Filmfest Varna, Bulgaria for "Bikini - mon amour"
  • 1990 Best Screenplay (Festival Imag Fic, Madrid) for “Erdenschwer”; Best artistic contribution (Festival Europa Cinema, Viareggio) for “Erdenschwer”; Prize of the international film club association (Festival Figuera da Foz, Portugal) for "heavy earth"
  • 1994 Film Prize of the City of Munich (complete works)

Retrospectives

  • 1987 Low Budget Festival Hamburg
  • 1989 Film Week Onikon Kino Herdecke
  • 1990 West Virginia Film Festival, Charleston, USA
  • 1993 Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
  • 1994 Munich Film Museum
  • 2018 wide screen cinema (Gauting)

engagement

  • 1990–2000 sponsor "Prize for the special documentary film" ( Dokfest Munich )
  • 2010 Foundation of the non-profit "Foundation Oliver Herbrich Children's Fund"

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Creative Radicality (Film and Video No. 10, 1980). Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ HFF Munich: Diploma. July 25, 1985. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  3. Oliver Herbrich: Festival participation "Wodzeck". Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  4. Interview in AV Invest No. 7/8 2000: It all started in a garage. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  5. The Man Theo Berger - Film about the Al Capone vom Donaumoos in Ingolstadt cinema. November 25, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  6. Distribution of the Filmmakers: Distribution Catalog 1988. Accessed July 30, 2019 .
  7. Press booklet "Erdenschwer" (re-performance 2018). Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  8. State Capital Munich Editor: Film Prize. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  9. When villains become movie heroes. November 6, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  10. ^ Dieter Kosslick: Laudation Film Prize Munich. June 13, 1994, Retrieved March 9, 2019 .