Paul Riniker

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Riniker (born September 7, 1946 in Aarau ) is a Swiss film director and film producer .

Life

Riniker grew up in Aarau. He studied law at the University of Zurich and graduated with a licentiate . Then he worked as a worker, later as a teacher.

From 1973 he was a freelance journalist for various daily and weekly newspapers, in 1974 he was an editor at the ddp news agency for a year , then a few months as a producer at Blick and finally a freelance journalist again.

From the summer of 1976 to the spring of 2006 he was employed by Swiss television as the person responsible for the documentaries co-produced as part of the “pacte de l'audiovisuel” . Since 1982 he has directed countless documentaries himself.

In 2003 he founded his own production company under the name Riniker Communications GmbH , with which he produces educational and documentary films.

In 2010 he made his debut with a first fictional work, the feature film Summer Birds . Five years later, Riniker's second feature film, Usfahrt Oerlike, about euthanasia, was released, simultaneously the last film by Jörg Schneider and one of the last by Mathias Gnädinger .

Paul Riniker lives and works in Zurich .

Filmography (selection)

Documentaries

  • 1982: Zurich, “The Bucks” and an attitude to life
  • 1982: De Sepp langt zue (about the boxer Sepp Iten )
  • 1983: Mir händ no Hoffnig (over a quarter in Zurich)
  • 1984: A pub without a boss (via the Kreuz cooperative in Solothurn)
  • 1985: Toni's dreams - portrait of a mentally handicapped mountain farmer's son
  • 1986: Juzen in the Muotatal - a difficult declaration of love
  • 1987: Sandra - insatiable hunger (portrait of an eating addict)
  • 1987: On the way between life and death (portrait of a fixer suffering from AIDS)
  • 1987: At least they don't argue anymore ... (Divorce from the children's perspective)
  • 1988: Women in prison (via the Hindelbank prison )
  • 1990: ... and a child dies quietly (about sudden infant death syndrome and the grief of the parents)
  • 1991: Dream Woman (Coco) - Stations of a sex change (via Eve-Claudine Lorétan )
  • 1992: Ladycops (with women on patrol)
  • 1993: Prima ballerina ( Joyce Cuoco : The stage - my life)
  • 1994: The healer (Pamela - a life with spirits)
  • 1995: Pasquale's mother - one year after the murder in Zollikerberg
  • 1996: Cool Man & Geierwally - the lively old people from the Alps
  • 1998: Stefanie - the life of a girl suffering from AIDS
  • 1999: Living with death - the long farewell to Paul O. Pfister
  • 2000: From Büezer to rock star - Gölä's dream career
  • 2001: Köbi Kuhn - what now?
  • 2003: Women with HIV - Five Fates
  • 2004: Raussmüller - Art Mediator (for Sternstunde Kunst )
  • 2005: Daughters of Allah

Feature films

  • 2010: Sommervögel (Audience Award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2011)
  • 2015: Usfahrt Oerlike (audience award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2015)

production

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Jaggi: Filmtage Audience Award goes to Paul Riniker from Aargau. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, January 28, 2011, accessed on May 9, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  2. ↑ Solothurn Film Festival | Journées de Soleure - Past winners. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Zurich Film Festival. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Riniker, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau