Percy Adlon

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Percy Adlon (born June 1, 1935 in Munich ; actually Paul Rudolf Parsifal Adlon ) is a German film and television director , author and producer .

Life

Adlon is an illegitimate son of Susanne Adlon, who comes from the Berlin hotelier family Adlon , and of the opera tenor Rudolf Laubenthal. He is the half-brother of radio presenter Thomas Meyerhöfer , who is 15 years his junior . He grew up in Ammerland on Lake Starnberg and studied theater studies , art history and German at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich . At the same time he took singing and acting lessons and was a member of a student theater group. In 1958 he began his career as an actor, as a result he began to be interested in the medium of radio , he worked as a speaker and editor of literary contributions as well as a television presenter and voice actor . He also worked as a writer for Bavarian Radio .

In 1970 he made his first short film for Bavarian television . In the period that followed, over 150 documentaries were made on art and social issues, many of them for Under Our Heaven . With his first hour-long portrait of Tomi Ungerer 's country life , a successful phase of collaboration began with Benigna von Keyserlingk , who became his producer of documentaries and feature films for television.

In 1978 Percy and Eleonore Adlon founded their own film production company, pelemele FILM GmbH. Her first project was the docu-drama The Guardian and His Poet about the Swiss poet and writer Robert Walser , for which Percy Adlon for script and direction and Rolf Illig for the performance received the Adolf Grimme Gold Prize. Her film Céleste about the housekeeper and confidante of Marcel Proust aroused international interest in 1981 in Cannes . In 1982 he wrote Five Last Days about Sophie Scholl , which was awarded the 50,000 DM directorial prize of the Bavarian Film Prize, 1985 Zuckerbaby (co-author: Gwendolyn von Ambesser ) with Marianne Sägebrecht .

Her collaboration with Dietrich von Watzdorf from Bayerischer Rundfunk began in 1987 with Out of Rosenheim . The story of Jasmin Münchgstettner and the café and gas station owner Brenda has become a symbol of friendship and warmth. Marianne Sägebrecht, who Adlon discovered in 1979, became a cult figure and Bob Telson's title song “Calling You” became a classic. The film Salmonberries by German actress Rosel Zech also brought international fame.

Percy and Eleonore Adlon have lived in Pacific Palisades in California , USA, since 1989 . There they work together with their son Felix , whose first film Eat Your Heart Out they produced in 1997 with their American company Leora Films. Felix Adlon also played an important role in the production of her 1996 documentary feature film In der Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel ( The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel ). In 1997 Adlon began to work with a digital camera. Among other things, he filmed a three-hour documentary for ARTE about the cartoonist Tomi Ungerer , a film to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute with images from today's Berlin , 22 short films based on unknown pieces by Johann Strauss the Younger , and a 90 -minute film Mein München about his past and present relationship with his hometown. In 2001 he finished his tenth feature film, Hawaiian Gardens , another Bavarian- California story with André Eisermann and Valeria Hernandez in the leading roles. Percy Adlon is deeply fascinated by the possibilities for truly independent filmmaking that the “digital revolution” opens up. He believes that only films that are made without any commercial interest can stimulate the film industry. In 2002 Adlon staged Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera Der Liebestrank at the Berlin State Opera .

Percy and Eleonore Adlon have received numerous prizes and honors, including the highest award in Rio de Janeiro for Out of Rosenheim and at the World Film Festival in Montreal for salmonberries , two Césars , the Ernst Lubitsch Prize , one Danish and one Swedish Academy Award, the Belgian Prix ​​Humanum , prizes in Venice , Chicago , Valladolid , Brussels and Tokyo as well as Bavarian and German film prizes .

His written legacy is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Honors

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document at birth name
  2. ↑ Heidrun Noblé: The school of the gigolos . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1997, pp. 126-129 ( Online - Apr. 7, 1997 ).
  3. ^ Percy-Adlon-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
  4. ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.
  5. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: alpha-retro: Percy Adlon evening: alpha-retro: Tim - Roller-Skater (1980). April 15, 2020, accessed May 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Adlon, Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adlon, Paul Rudolf Parsifal (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television director, author and producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich