Peter Sbrzesny
Peter Sbrzesny senior (born May 8, 1924 , † December 8, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German filmmaker and specialist book author.
Life
Peter Sbrzesny senior initially completed an engineering training at the post office and was drafted for two years during World War II . After the end of the war he came to film after working for the building department of the Berlin magistrate and in an architecture office. In 1951 he became a member of an East Berlin amateur film group and only a year later he worked as a cameraman in Kurt Weiler's puppet film Oskar Kulicke and the Pacifist .
He gained his first experience in larger productions as a second cameraman under the direction of Konrad Wolf in films such as once is no time (1955), recovery (1956) or Mazurka der Liebe (1957, directed by Hans Müller ).
Sbrzesny then moved to the DEFA studio for popular science films, where he worked as a cameraman with Peter Ulbrich and Gerhard Jentsch on the production of around 50 reports and documentaries on China, Vietnam and Iraq until 1990 . From the 1960s onwards, he also taught future cameramen at the Potsdam-Babelsberg University of Film and Television . At the same time, the multi-presentation film technology Kino Vario developed , which was used in various productions in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, Sbrzesny wrote various basic works for amateur filmmakers as an author and co-author.
From 1988 to 1992 he made various medical films as a director and cameraman for medical training and worked intensively with the graphic artist Ebo Baumann and the cartoonists and animation filmmakers Hans Moser & Thomas Rosié ( Moser + Rosié Film ). In the early 1990s he made various information and image films about Cuba , especially about the development of Cuban tourism.
Peter Sbrzesny lived in Liebenwalde / Höpen in Brandenburg , north of Berlin , until his death . He died in December 2012 at the age of 88.
Works
- The cine camera. Leipzig, VEB Fotokinoverlag, 1966
- Camera work and lighting design. Leipzig, VEB Fotokinoverlag, 1967
- Amateur film book for everyone. (with Rolf Hempel and Siegfried Mehnert) Leipzig, VEB Fotokinoverlag, 1974
Web links
- Peter Sbrzesny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Sbrzesny at defa.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sbrzesny, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sbrzesny, Peter senior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1924 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin , Germany |