Otto Kelmer

Otto Kelmer (born January 28, 1948 in Bucharest , Romania ) is a German director , author , artist and psychoanalyst .

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Otto Kelmer was born in Bucharest in 1948 and emigrated to Germany with his parents in 1963.

At the Vienna Film Academy , he studied from 1966 to 1967 film directing . In autumn 1967 he started at the Ruhr-University Bochum , the students of psychology, minor in the study of media studies with the seminar theory and practice of the short film in Hilmar Hoffmann . During this time Otto Kelmer made several short films, such as Käfig , which was shown in the special program of the Federal Republic of Germany at the short film festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 1969 .

In 1975 Otto Kelmer received his dissertation on television , which he wrote together with Arnd Stein : The Nation's School of Aggression? The Unmasking of a Myth , published in the same year as a book by the Brockmeyer University Press, is doing her doctorate . To present their findings, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit granted them a full-page article in the Culture section on October 24, 1975 .

At the beginning of September 1979, Marcel Reich-Ranicki published a number of Kelmer's aphorisms in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1981 the scripts for the six-part series of documentary-essayistic films for the WDR Social Psychology in Experiment followed , from which the book Mensch und Mitmensch im Experiment in the following year . Memorable things emerged from social psychology .

Otto Kelmer learned classical drawing and painting between 1979 and 1985 from the Romanian artists Serban Gabrea and Daniel Négo, who lived in Germany and France. During this time, Kelmer's drawing Multiplication incontrolée de René Magritte was selected by the curator couple Maurice Rapin and Mirabelle Dors for participation in the Salon Figuration Critique at the Center Culturel de la rue du Louvre in Paris in 1980. After numerous participations in group exhibitions, such as in 1983 in the studio and exhibition center Schloss Ringenberg in Wesel and in the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg in 1984, Otto Kelmer's first solo exhibition took place in 1985 in the sponsorship group of contemporary art in Euskirchen under his artist name Leon Tobias. The installation Der Speiseraum des Tantalus emerged from this exhibition in 1986 and was shown in the Löhrl Gallery in Mönchengladbach .

Parallel to his artistic and cinematic work, Otto Kelmer completed his psychoanalytic training from 1982 to 1991 with Abraham Braun, Tobias Brocher and Edeltrud Meistermann-Seeger .

Kelmer continued his cinematic training with directors such as Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski , further with the European Master Class Script Writing under the direction of Frank Daniel, and finally with the editor Ralph Rosenblum.

Between 1991 and 1992 Kelmer realized the fictional documentary The Secret Collection of Salvador Dalí as a writer and director on behalf of ZDF . In 1993 the film received the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold in the culture category, as well as the audience award of the Marler Group for the best television production of 1992 and was then included in the Deutsche Kinemathek film collection. For this film Otto Kelmer designed, among other things, the sculpture Narcissistic Triptych or Spiegel-Apollo , which has been on display at the Düsseldorf Film Museum since the filming was completed .

In 1994 La collection secrète de Salvador Dalí won the Prix ​​du Jury at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art FIFA in Montréal .

The film was shown twice at the Center Pompidou in Paris, the first time together with the other films that won awards in Montréal in 1994 as part of the 4th Biennale Internationale du Film sur l'Art and in January 2013 in the context of the Salvadoran film curated by Jean-Hubert Martin Dalí retrospective in Paris.

In the exhibition Charade / Rochade in 2012 in the Haubrok Collection in Berlin, Kelmer's trailer for an imaginary film about the origin of religions was an intensely discussed exhibit. In 2015 Kelmer showed his solo exhibition Narcissus. In the golden splendor of the apocalypse in the Galerie 21 Andreas Szöke in Cologne . In May 2016, six of his works, including the film Symmetry or Absence of Femininity , were shown in the Troner Art Consulting anniversary exhibition in Düsseldorf .

Awards

• 1993: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for The Secret Collection of Salvador Dalí
• 1993: Audience Award of the Marler Group for the best television production of 1992 for The Secret Collection of Salvador Dalí
• 1994: Prix ​​du Jury at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art FIFA in Montréal for La collection secrète de Salvador Dalí

Fonts

• with Arnd Stein: Television: The Nation's School of Aggression ?: The Unmasking of a Myth. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1975, ISBN 3-921543-21-5 .
• with Arnd Stein: humans and fellow humans in the experiment. Memorable things from social psychology. Publishing house Coppenrath, Münster (Westphalia) 1978, ISBN 3-920192-35-4 .

Web links

• ARD. The secret collection of Salvador Dali. . accessed on September 3, 2019.
• 29th Adolf Grimme Prize 1993. accessed on September 3, 2019.
• The secret collection of Salvador Dali. accessed on September 28, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hilmar Hoffmann: XV. West German Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Way to Neighbors, Report 1969. ed. on behalf of the city of Oberhausen by Hilmar Hoffmann. Verlag Karl Maria Laufen, Oberhausen 1969, p. 92 and p. 98 (Source: Archive of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen ).
2. ↑ Otto Kelmer, Arnd Stein: Television: Aggressionsschule der Nation ?: The unmasking of a myth. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1975, ISBN 3-921543-21-5 .
3. ↑ Otto Keimer, Arnd Stein: violence on television. Two psychologists question the findings so far. In: The time . No. 44, October 24, 1975, p. 35.
4. ↑ Otto Kelmer: Aphorisms. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 209, September 8, 1979, p. 23.
5. ↑ Otto Kelmer, Arnd Stein: Mensch und Mitmensch im Experiment. Memorable things from social psychology. Publishing house Coppenrath, Münster (Westphalia) 1978, ISBN 3-920192-35-4 .
6. ↑ Mirabelle Dors, Maurice Rapin: Figuration critique, Salon, 16 June-14 June 1980. Center culturel de la rue du Louvre, Paris 1980, Editeur: Figuration critique, Paris 1980, ISBN 3-487-06908-3 , p. 89 .
7. ↑ WochenSpiegel (District Euskirchen) of March 26, 1985 ( Archive of the Support Group for Contemporary Art District Euskirchen eV )
8. ↑ Otto Kelmer: Nobody wants you to make films. A directing seminar with Krzysztof Zanussi. In: JOURNAL FILM - The magazine for the other cinema. Issue 9, autumn 1985, p. 7 (Source: Archive of the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf ).
9. ↑ Otto Kelmer: When a rifle should fire in the 3rd act. Report on a script seminar. In: JOURNAL FILM - The magazine for the other cinema. Issue 12, autumn 1986, p. 12 (Source: Archive of the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf ).
10. ↑ Laureate 1993. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Grimme Institute . 
11. ↑ Paquerette Villeneuve: Le festival de l'art pour l'art. In: Cité Libre. Volume 22, No. 3, May / June 1994, ISSN  1183-7144 , p. 34.
12. ↑ Marie-Michèlle Cron: Le FIFA tient ses promesses. In: Le Devoir Culture. March 15, 1994, p. B 8.
13. ^ Gisèle Breteau-Skira: 4th Biennale Internationale du Film sur l´Art 19–24 October 1994. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-85850-811-9 .
14. ↑ La Collection secrète de Salvador Dalí. from the Center Pompidou website , accessed 7 November 2016.
15. ↑ Otto Kelmer: Who is Michel Würthle? and what kind of film is the new "Secret Collection of Salvador Dali"? In: Charade / Rochade. Exhibition catalog. Verlag Distance, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95476-006-0 , pp. 114/115 and pp. 116/117.