Oskar Roehler

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Oskar Roehler (2015)

Oskar Roehler (born January 21, 1959 in Starnberg ) is a German film director , journalist and author .

Life

Roehler is the son of the writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler . It is named after Oskar from the novel The Tin Drum - his father was Günter Grass ' editor. In an interview, he called his father a “Nazi disguised as a leftist” who raved about his time in the Hitler Youth . His mother told a reporter "with a triumphant smile on her face" that she tried to abort her son while she was pregnant.

From the age of four he grew up with his grandparents and then again with his father in Darmstadt. From 1969 to 1978 he visited the Steigerwald-Landschulheim in Wiesentheid in Lower Franconia , where he also passed his Abitur. He has been an author since the early 1980s. His works include scripts for Niklaus Schilling , Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter .

Since the mid-1990s, Roehler was best known as a feature film director. His most successful film to date was Die Unberührbare with Hannelore Elsner in the lead role, in which Roehler tells the last few years of his mother's life. The film was awarded numerous prizes, including the German Film Prize in Gold.

In 2003 Roehler was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

After 2003 and 2006, Roehler received his third invitation to the competition at the Berlinale in 2010 for Jud Süß - Film Without Conscience . The film with Tobias Moretti as the eponymous hero Ferdinand Marian , Justus von Dohnányi as director Veit Harlan and Moritz Bleibtreu as Joseph Goebbels dramatizes the making of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß from 1940.

In 2011 he published an autobiographical novel under the title Origin , which he also made into a film under the title Sources of Life (2013).

For the Arte series Durch die Nacht mit ... he shot the episode with Lars Eidinger .

In 2018 Roehler filmed the novel "HERRliche Zeiten" by the right-wing writer Thor Kunkel , who designs election campaigns for the AfD. In this context, Roehler described himself as "rather right-wing".

Oskar Roehler has been married to the fashion designer Alexandra Roehler since August 2000 . The couple lives in Berlin and Mallorca.

Oskar Roehler during a film talk about Lulu & Jimi in the cinema Tilsiter Lichtspiele (2009)

Filmography

Books

Web links

Commons : Oskar Roehler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin No. 18, May 4, 2018, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Gabriela Herpell / Lars Reichardt: "We are poor pigs and always driven" , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, May 4, 2018, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Steffen Radlmaier: Settlement with the parents , Nürnberger Nachrichten of November 17, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2014
  4. ^ Kerstin Decker: Oskar Roehler: The betrayed child , tagesspiegel.de , February 20, 2013
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin No. 18, May 4, 2018, p. 31.
  6. ↑ Christian Fuchs, Paul Middelhoff: The network of the new right . Ed .: rowohlt Verlag. 2018, p. 189 .
  7. ↑ Interview with film director Oskar Roehler and fashion designer Alexandra Fischer-Roehler in SZ-Magazin
  8. ^ Oskar Roehler on West Berlin: So kaputt, so animated , review by Gerrit Bartels in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 5, 2015, accessed March 11, 2015
  9. ↑ Der Ekel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from September 24, 2017, page 43
personal data
SURNAME Roehler, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Starnberg