Peter Przygodda

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Peter Przygodda (born October 26, 1941 in Berlin ; † October 2, 2011 in Munich ) was a German film editor who was best known for his collaboration with the director Wim Wenders . Occasionally he also worked as a film director . In the course of his 40-year career, Przygodda was responsible for the film editing of around 100 projects, which identify him as one of the most important editors of the post-war period in West Germany .

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life and work

The son of Wolf Przygodda and his wife Maria Elisabeth, b. Schröder, grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg and attended the Hermann Hesse School there. After graduating from high school, he wanted to study architecture and in 1962 did an internship in construction. But he lost interest in studying.

Przygodda continued to work as a construction worker, sign painter and house painter and came into contact with the Kreuzberg artist scene through the Leierkasten artist bar. At the beginning of the 1960s, he and Rolf Zacher founded the studio stage Ein-Groschen-Theater. In 1966 he stayed in France and lived from the sale of paintings by his friends. In 1967 he returned to Berlin.

In 1967 he came to film and learned the profession of master editor as an assistant to Alfred Srp . In 1968 he went to Munich and was assistant director for Roger Fritz 's Girls with Violence . In 1969 he made his debut as a director with his short film The Visit to the Country . Wim Wenders ' Summer in the City was one of his first projects as a film editor ; after that he was responsible for assembling almost all of Wenders' plants.

He was a lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich and the International Film School Cologne .

Peter Przygodda was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 . In his career he received the German Gold Film Award twice . In 2008 he was presented with the Geißendörfer Prize for Editing for his life's work as part of the Filmplus film festival in Cologne . In September 2010 he was honored with a star on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin.

In 1979 Przygodda married the Brazilian Rita Mauricio from Salvador da Bahia and their daughter was born in 1986. Przygodda died of a serious illness on October 2, 2011 in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

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Director

  • 1969: The visit to the country (short film)
  • 1972: Can
  • 1979: ... born as diesel
  • 1981–1985: All spirits circle ... Todos os espiritos circulam

Awards

  • 1975: Film tape in gold (cut) for Wrong Movement
  • 1978: Film tape in gold (cut) for The American Friend , The Left-Handed Woman and The Glass Cell
  • 2008: Geißendörfer cut award for his life's work at the Filmplus film festival in Cologne
  • 2009: Nomination for the German Film Prize for Palermo Shooting
  • 2010: Star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Homage and Honorary Award Filmplus 2008
  2. cf. German Film Award: An overview of the nominations at welt.de, March 13, 2009