Harry Rag

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Harry Rag , actually Peter Braatz , another pseudonym Petrus Braatzi (born September 24, 1959 in Solingen ) is a German musician, film director , film editor and film producer . His stage name, Harry Rag , which he adopted in 1977 as guitarist and singer in the band SYPH , refers to the song of the same name by the rock band The Kinks .

Life

Harry Rag grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and worked as a craftsman until 1982 after completing an apprenticeship. In 1980 he briefly attended a design school in Düsseldorf. Since 1977 he has been the songwriter, singer and guitarist of the group SYPH , which was one of the first German punk bands.

From 1982 to 1988 Harry Rag studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In 1985 he was David Lynch's guest on the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, USA and in 1986 he was involved as a second staff cameraman in the Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin .

Harry Rag has been working for "Taris Filmproduction" since 1988 as a freelance producer, director, cameraman and film editor. In the same year he was awarded the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since then he has produced numerous feature films, documentaries and videos; partly also for television productions such as a series of seven short films for the WDR in 1996 or a monthly weekend show for the Slovenian television in 1999.

Harry Rag has been married to the Slovenian director Maja Weiss since 1993 . The couple have two children and live in Slovenia.

Films (selection)

  • 1985: The wonderful mandarin
  • 1987: Livebeat , The Plan (VHS)
  • 1987: The sky over Berlin
  • 1988: No Frank in Lumberton
  • 1991: GDR - untitled
  • 1993: On the way back
  • 1995: Photo film 2001
  • 1995: Nevski Melody
  • 1999: engine cult
  • 1997: Sex Pistols, Welcome Home
  • 1998: Adrian
  • 2001: Steklarski blues
  • 2002: Over the Sun - Under the Moon
  • 2002: Varuh meje
  • 2004: Music flies in the air
  • 2007: Naked Than Naked / Live in Berlin , Blumfeld (DVD)
  • 2007: The human fish
  • 2011: Tamikrest - A Desert Blues
  • 2015: The new windows of Reims Cathedral
  • 2016: Blue Velvet Revisited
  • 2019: The 3 satellites

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 , p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Rag, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braatz, Peter (maiden name); Braatzi, Petrus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, film director, film editor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen