Peter Nestler (director)
Peter Nestler (born June 1, 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German documentary filmmaker and actor .
Life
The son of a German officer and a Swede attended boarding school until 1953. He then worked for a time in his father's plastics company and went to sea for two years. He studied painting at the Art Academy in Munich and received several film roles from 1959. In the hit film one prettier than the other (1961) he was the main actor at the side of Heidi Brühl .
Nestler's ambitions, however, went in a different direction. In 1962 he made his first documentary Am Siel . For essays (1963) he received the Federal Minister of the Interior's cultural film award. Since his work Von Greece (1965), however, no broadcaster in the Federal Republic of Germany has been willing to help finance and broadcast a film by Peter Nestler, who is considered to be left-leaning. In 1966 he emigrated to Sweden because the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) no longer wanted to show his films. His feature film project The Candidate, with Trude Herr as the leading actress, failed due to a lack of financial support.
In Sweden he first worked as a forest worker. In 1968 he became a permanent employee of the 2nd channel of Sveriges Radio . He mainly edited children's and youth programs. Almost on his own, supported only by his wife Zsóka, he repeatedly made time-critical short documentaries. Some of it was taken off the program before it was broadcast.
Many of his films were made in collaboration with his wife Zsoka.
Filmography (selection)
Director (documentaries)
- 1962: On the Siel
- 1963: Articles
- 1964: Mülheim / Ruhr with Reinald Schnell
- 1964: Ödenwaldstetten
- 1965: A workers' club in Sheffield
- 1965: From Greece
- 1965: Rheinstrom with Reinald Schnell and Robert Wolfgang Schnell
- 1967: In the Ruhr area ( I Ruhromradet , TV)
- 1968: sightseeing
- 1968: Greeks in Sweden ( Greker i Sverige ; not broadcast)
- 1969: Up the Danube ( Uppför Donau , Sveriges TV)
- 1970: Being a gypsy ( Att vara cigarne , TV)
- 1971: May you come back? About neo-fascist tendencies in West Germany ( Far de comma igen? Om nyfascistica tendenser i Västtyskland ; not broadcast)
- 1972: Pictures of Vietnam ( pictures from Vietnam , TV)
- 1973: Spain! (TV)
- 1977: foreigner. Part I. Ships and cannons ( Utlänningar. Del I. Batar och kanoner , TV)
- 1978: foreigner. Part II. Gypsies ( Utlänningar. Del II. Le rom , TV)
- 1978: foreigner. Part III. Iranians ( Utlänningar. Del III. Iranians , TV)
- 1978: foreigner. Part IV. Iranians, continued ( Utlänningar. Del IV. Iranians, Fortsättning , TV)
- 1981: Is Peace Unconstitutional? ( Ar freden föfattningsfientling?, TV)
- 1981: Hiroshima (TV)
- 1982: Ruperto Mendoza (TV)
- 1982: It's war in Central America ( Det är krig i Central America , TV)
- 1983: I don't want to see sad faces ( Jag vill inte se sorgana ansikten , TV)
- 1985: Waiting ( Väntan , TV)
- 1986: Ödenwaldstetten 2 (TV)
- 1988: Die Judengasse (TV, in Frankfurt am Main )
- 1991: The north calotte (TV, about the land of the Sami , Lapland )
- 1997: Pachamama - Our Earth
- 1998: The Roman Road in the Aosta Valley (TV)
- 2000: Escape 2000 (TV; about the painter Léo Maillet )
- 2002: The transformation of the good neighbor (TV; visits by former concentration camp prisoner Thomas Blatt in Sobibor )
- 2003: Stranger Children: Growing Up with Music
- 2009: death and the devil
actor
- 1958: The Schinderhannes
- 1959: The man in the man
- 1959: Sailors' paradise
- 1961: The high tourist
- 1961: And that's called life
- 1961: Black gravel
- 1961: each prettier than the other
- 1962: I have to go out to the town center
- 1962: The pastor with the jazz trumpet
- 1963: Two in a port city
- 1963: The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
- 1963: Interpol - Heart is Trumps (TV series)
- 1965: Farewell (TV movie)
- 1972: Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's music accompanying a movie scene
DVD edition
In 2012 a DVD edition of Nestler's films was released ( Peter Nestler - Poetischer Provokateur. Films 1962-2009 , 5 DVDs).
literature
- Jörg Becker: Peter Nestler . in CineGraph , vol. 10, with an essay by Jörg Becker; edition text + criticism (1988)
- Time for messages: Peter Nestler, documentarist , publisher. by Jutta Pirschtat, Essen: Ed. Film workshop, 1991
Documentary about Nestler
In the film, Documentary I work from Christoph Hübner Nestler next is Klaus Wildenhahn , Jürgen Böttcher and Volker Koepp interviewed about his work.
Web links
- Peter Nestler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Nestler at filmportal.de
- Description of the film "The transformation of the good neighbor"
- "Memory and Resistance - The Films by Peter Nestler" at critic.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nestler, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and documentary filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |