Peter Kahane

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Peter Kahane (2006)

Peter Kahane (born May 30, 1949 in Prague ; born Peter Klement Kahane ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

The son of journalist Max Kahane and artist Doris Kahane spent his childhood in East Berlin from 1950 until he was 8 years old. Then he moved with the family to India, where the father was employed as the Asia correspondent. In 1959, Peter Kahane returned to the GDR, lived and studied for five years in a school home in Cöthen , a district of Falkenberg in Brandenburg . Almost 16 years old he came back to Berlin, graduated from EOS Heinrich Schliemann in 1967 and at the same time completed an apprenticeship as a refrigeration fitter with a skilled worker certificate - a specialty of the GDR school system at that time.

From 1967 to 1971 he studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated with a diploma as a teacher of French and Russian. In 1973 he began to work as an assistant director in the DEFA studio for feature films.

After completing his basic military service with the NVA from 1974 to 1975, he studied directing at the GDR College for Film and Television until 1979 . For his main graduation film, the 20-minute documentary Trumpet, Bell, Last Letters , he received the FIPRESCI Prize in 1978 from the IFF Leipzig .

After graduating, he made his feature film debut in 1983 with Weiberwirtschaft . His subsequent films Ete and Ali (1985) and Vorspiel (1987) gave realistic insights into the realities of life in the GDR youth. In his last GDR film, Peter Kahane relentlessly describes in Die Architekten the oppressive attitude towards life of his generation, despite the best efforts to have failed because of realities. Filming began in September 1989; the film was only released in GDR cinemas in May 1990.

After 1989 Peter Kahane made numerous television films. He also wrote scripts, including for TV series such as Peter Strohm , Polizeiruf 110 and Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall , and directed several times. For the cinema, among others emerged to the horizon and on (1998), Tamara (2007), The Red Zora (2008) and as we shape the future were (2015).

Kahane is married and has two sons. His eldest son Tamás Kahane is a composer. Peter Kahane lives in Berlin. Anetta Kahane is his younger sister.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1985: Max Ophüls Prize : Prize of the Interfilm Jury for Ete and Ali
  • 1988: Max Ophüls Prize: Lord Mayor's Prize for Vorspiel
  • 1990: Special prize at the 6th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR for the architects
  • 1990: Prize of the Catholic Film Commission of the GDR for the architects

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Kretschmar: Director Peter Kahane. His terrific flop , Taz, November 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kahane, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahane, Peter Klement (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague