Peter Lilienthal

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Peter Lilienthal (born November 27, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Peter Lilienthal is the son of a set designer and a descendant of the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal . In 1939, because of her Jewish faith, his mother fled with him from the National Socialists to Uruguay , where she opened a small hotel. After graduating from high school, Lilienthal studied art history , music and law at the University of Montevideo . In the university film club he participated in the production of short films.

From 1956 he studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 1959 he was able to finish his first own film, the documentary Earned in the blink of an eye about a Berlin organ grinder. From 1959 to 1961 he worked as a director and production assistant at Südwestfunk , from 1961 to 1964 as a director for the same broadcaster. In 1964 he moved back to Berlin and worked as a freelance director mainly for the broadcaster Free Berlin .

At a time when audience ratings were of secondary importance, he staged a series of adaptations of the absurd theater for television , which were repeatedly awarded television prizes. His first feature film, Malatesta , was also shown first on television. In 1971 he founded the film publishing house of the authors with other auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema , from which he left in 1974.

In the seventies, Lilienthal turned to the problems in South America several times in his films ( La Victoria , There is calm in the country , The uprising , The autograph ).

He celebrated one of his greatest successes with the film David , which was awarded the Golden Bear at the 1979 Berlinale . In this film adaptation of an autobiographical novel, he describes the life of a Jewish rabbi family who recognized the dangers of National Socialism too late. Peter Lilienthal's regular staff included cameraman Michael Ballhaus . Occasionally he also appeared in front of the camera as an actor , for example as a gangster in Wim Wenders ' The American Friend from 1976/77.

In 1984, at the suggestion of Günter Grass , Peter Lilienthal became the founding director of the Film and Media Art section at the West Berlin Academy of the Arts . In the nineties he founded a summer academy that became a popular meeting place for filmmakers.

In 2006 Lilienthal shot the documentary Camilo - The Long Path to Disobedience , a production by the Münster Film Workshop . The film is about Camilo Mejia, who deserted after a two-week home leave and became the first conscientious objector in the last Iraq war. Next to Camilo, who comes from Nicaragua and was imprisoned in the US in a military prison for desertion, Fernando Suarez del Solar is the second main character, a native of Mexico who lost his son in the same war. In the desire to lead an adapted life in their adopted home USA, they both become accomplices in the violence. But their transformation into active opponents of war cannot hide their feelings of guilt. Lilienthal is about showing that there is hope as long as people are ready to change.

Lilienthal taught at the Art Academy for Media Cologne and the German Film and Television Academy Berlin . His archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

  • 1958: Study 23 (director)
  • 1959: Earned in the blink of an eye (director)
  • 1962: piece by piece (director)
  • 1964: Marl - The Portrait of a City (Director)
  • 1966: Farewell (director)
  • 1966: The Beginning (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1967: Crimes with Forethought (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1967: The Foundling (supporting role)
  • 1968: Tramp (director, screenplay)
  • 1969: Horror (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1969: Noon in Tunisia (Director)
  • 1970: Malatesta (director, screenplay)
  • 1970: I, Monday - me, Tuesday - me, Wednesday - me, Thursday. Portrait Gombrowicz (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1971: Attacking the Sun (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1971: Start No. 9 (director, producer)
  • 1971: Jakob von Gunten (director, screenplay)
  • 1971: Noon in Tunesia (director, screenplay)
  • 1972: Shirley Chisholm for President (Director, Producer, Screenplay)
  • 1973: La Victoria (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1975: Head teacher Hofer (director, screenplay, producer)
  • 1975: The country is quiet (director, screenplay, producer)
  • 1977: Kadir (director, producer, screenplay)
  • 1979: David (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1980: The Uprising (direction, set design, screenplay)
  • 1982: Dear Mr. Wonderful (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1984: The autograph (direction, set design, screenplay)
  • 1986: The Silence of the Poet (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1988: The Cyclist of San Cristóbal (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1995: Given the Forests (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2000: A Stranger (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2007: Camilo - The Long Road to Disobedience (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2008: Michael Ballhaus - A journey through my life (participation)

Awards

literature

  • Anarchism, a philosophy of peace. A conversation with the filmmaker Peter Lilienthal , in: Bernd Drücke (ed.): Yes! Anarchism. Living utopia in the 21st century, interviews and discussions . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-87956-307-4 , pp. 20ff.

Movie

  • My life. Peter Lilienthal. Documentary, Germany, 2011, 43:20 min., Script and director: Maria Teresa Curzio, production: MTC Producciones, WDR , arte , series: Mein Leben, first broadcast: August 28, 2011 on arte, summary by arte.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: The director Peter Lilienthal is 80th Die Welt , November 27, 2009.
  2. ↑ Experienced stories with Peter Lilienthal. WDR5 , November 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Hans Helmut Prinzler: The dream of the five seconds. FAZ , November 27, 2009.
  4. ↑ Peter Lilienthal Archive. Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Lilienthal, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, director
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin