Peter Fleischmann (director)

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Peter Fleischmann (born July 26, 1937 in Zweibrücken , † August 11, 2021 in Potsdam ) was a German film director , screenwriter and film producer . He is considered a representative of the New German Cinema .

Life

Fleischmann studied at the German Institute for Film and Television (DIFF) in Munich and at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris . In France he met representatives of the Nouvelle Vague and made friends with Jean-Claude Carrière , with whom he later wrote several scripts. After a few years as an assistant director, he directed short and children's films from 1963 to 1965. His documentary Herbst der Gammler about the Gammler subculture in Munich caused quite a stir in 1967 because it portrayed the strong generation conflicts and the nascent 1968 movement.

In 1969, Fleischmann released the first full-length feature film Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria , based on the socially critical play of the same name by Martin Sperr , who also played the leading role. The film, which deals critically with the way a Bavarian village deals with its outsiders, above all the homosexuals embodied by Sperr, received several awards such as the film tape in silver . It was entered into the running as a German candidate for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated.

Since then, Fleischmann has been considered a representative of the New German Cinema . Together with Volker Schlöndorff , he founded the film production company Hallelujah Film in 1969 . Fleischmann's later works also revolve in allegorical acts around the problem of the forced adaptation of the individual to an incomprehensible environment. Again and again the supposedly bad turns out to be good and the supposedly good as bad. Das Unheil (1972), for which he wrote the screenplay with Martin Walser , denounced small-mindedness in a small Hessian town and was one of the first films to focus on environmental pollution (in Cannes he received the Prix Luis Buñuel); In Dorothea's Rache (1974), he processed the sex film wave of the time in a satirical and provocative way. His film The Hamburg Disease (1979) with Helmut Griem about an epidemic spreading in Germany and the question of how the public should deal with it received renewed attention in the course of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

In contrast to other New German Cinema directors, Fleischmann's films often received the respect of critics and other directors, but rarely the attention of the mass audience. This is why it became increasingly difficult for him to finance larger projects from the 1980s onwards - Völker Schlöndorff described him in this regard as a “Renaissance person, a kind of German Orson Welles who always saw bigger and further than others, whom many reduced to his first films (...) ". In 1990 he realized It is not easy to be a god , a film adaptation of the science fiction novel by the brothers Arkadi and Boris Strugazki, which was filmed at great expense . But he also remained loyal to the documentary and shot Germany in the same year . Germany , in which conversations about the turnaround were held with simple passers-by from East and West , which already hinted at future difficulties. In 2006, after a long break, he made the film Mein Freund, der Kimmel , a documentary about his friend Bernhard Kimmel . He had previously portrayed Kimmel in Der Al Capone der Pfalz (1987). In 2008 his novel Die Zukunftsangst der Deutschen was published . Most recently he was involved in the restoration of several of his films.

In the 1990s, Fleischmann was involved in the management of the Babelsberg Studios (formerly UFA or DEFA ) and was largely responsible for the rescue of the studios, for which he recruited investors from various European countries. In 2003, Peter Fleischmann was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . He last lived in Werder near Potsdam and died in August 2021 at the age of 84 as a result of a fall.

Filmography

Books

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fleischmann died at the age of 84
  2. ↑ Interview with Peter Fleischmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday
  3. ↑ Director Fleischmann on the 80th: The anger of the citizens - culture. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Peter Fleischmann's screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière has died - Zweibrücken / Paris. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  5. ↑ AUTUMN OF THE BUMPER. In: DFF.FILM. Retrieved on August 12, 2021 (German).
  6. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): DVD tip: Neuer Deutscher Film | DW | 05.03.2011. Retrieved on February 5, 2021 (German).
  7. ↑ Peter Fleischmann - biography. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Dorothea's revenge | filmportal.de. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  9. ↑ "Hamburg Disease": Cult film foresaw the Corona crisis as early as 1979. In: MOPO. April 14, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2021 (German).
  10. ↑ a b c Volker Schlöndorff : On the death of the film director Peter Fleischmann: The man who saw further. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 12, 2021, accessed August 13, 2021 .
  11. ↑ biography. In: Peter Fleischmann. Retrieved on August 12, 2021 (German).
  12. ↑ "The Hamburg Disease": A Palatinate director and his epidemic film, made in 1979. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  13. ↑ Peter Fleischmann | filmportal.de. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
  14. ↑ Der Spiegel: Central figure of the New German Film: Peter Fleischmann is dead, the director of »Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria«. Retrieved August 12, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and author
BIRTH DATE July 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Potsdam