Olrik Breckoff
Olrik Breckoff (born July 7, 1929 in Riga , † 2006 ) was a cameraman, director, author, documentary filmmaker and television journalist.
Life
Breckoff grew up in Riga as one of seven siblings in a Baltic German family. At the end of 1939, as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , his family moved to Posen in then-occupied Poland, where Breckoff attended grammar school. Due to the war, he and his family fled to Hamburg in January 1945, where he graduated from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium . In 1950 he started working as a cameraman for the newly founded Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) in Hamburg. From 1956 he worked for WDR for decades.
Awards
- 1965: Jakob Kaiser Prize for Leipzig 1964, reunion with a city in Germany
- 1966: Golden camera for the pay cone ball and From Danzig to Gdansk
- 1967: Premio Ondas for Beyond the Urals
- 1971: Adolf Grimme Prize for sour cherries and laurel
- 1984: Robert Geisendörfer Prize for everyday Christians in a Luther city. Observations in Eisennach
Works (selection)
- 1961: Ireland and its Children , TV documentary
- 1970: sour cherries and laurel , TV documentary
literature
- Hennig, Klaus J .: 44 years always an alert reporter and cameraman ; in: WDR Print 12/2006 (368), p. 12
swell
- Münster 1968 - From the war of the fathers to the protest of the sons. Three films - three perspectives. (2011)
- Olrik Breckoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Breckoff, Olrik |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breckhoff, Olrik (misspelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman, director, author, documentary filmmaker and television journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
DATE OF DEATH | 2006 |