Peter Schamoni

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Peter Schamoni (born March 27, 1934 in Berlin ; † June 14, 2011 in Munich ) was a German film director and film producer . He was co-author of the Oberhausen Manifesto .

Life

Oberhausen Manifesto, February 28, 1962

Schamoni was the son of the film scholar Victor Schamoni . His older brother Victor Schamoni junior later became a cameraman for television, his younger brother Thomas Schamoni is an artist and director. A third brother, Ulrich Schamoni , worked as an actor, screenwriter and director. Mother Maria Schamoni published her autobiography Meine Schamonis in 1983 . The theologian Wilhelm Schamoni and the painter Albert Schamoni were Peter Schamoni's uncle, but there were no family ties to the Hamburg musician Rocko Schamoni .

He grew up in Berlin and played minor roles in film and theater as a child. The family was bombed several times during the Second World War . After the father's death on the Eastern Front in 1942, the family first moved to Iserlohn . From 1947 to 1952 Schamoni attended a convent school and finally passed his Abitur in 1954 at the Paulinum Gymnasium in Münster . In the same year he began to study art history , philosophy and German studies in Münster , but continued his studies in Munich from 1955.

After working as an assistant director at the state theaters in Stuttgart and Munich, parallel to his studies and training as an actor with Ruth von Zerboni , he began to produce his own experimental short films. His first documentary short film Moscow in 1957 about the VI. World Youth Festival in Moscow received the photokina prize of the “Jugend filmt” competition from Federal President Theodor Heuss . Many of his short films from this period were shown during the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen . Schamoni was one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962 , which called for a radical break with previous German filmmaking (“Papa's cinema is dead”) and became the birth certificate of the New German Cinema .

Schamoni directed and produced more than 30 feature and documentary films. For his feature film debut Schonzeit für Füchse (1965), in which a driven hunt becomes a symbol for a cruel and meaningless society and which is part of the first wave of New German Cinema, he won three German film awards in 1966 and the “Silver Bear” at the 1966 Berlin Film Festival . In 1983 he filmed the love story of Robert and Clara Schumann (played by Herbert Grönemeyer and Nastassja Kinski ) with the Spring Symphony at original locations in the GDR - one of the rare cinematic collaborations between East and West Germany. For his documentary feature film Caspar David Friedrich - Boundaries of Time, both German states and France cooperated with each other in 1986.

Schamoni's collaboration with Anatole Dauman began in the 1960s . Together they produced films such as Niki de Saint Phalles Daddy or Walerian Borowczyk's La bête . Schamoni also appeared as a producer of his brother Ulrich's films , including All Years Again and Quartet in Bed . His greatest success as a producer was May Spils ' cult film Zur Dinge, Schätze from 1967: The relaxed comedy from the Munich student milieu made its main actors Uschi Glas and Werner Enke icons of the 1968s and received the golden screen in 1968 .

From the 1970s onwards, a substantial part of Schamoni's filmmaking comprised portraits of artists. He made five films about Max Ernst , with whom Schamoni was friends from 1963, including 1967 The illegal exercise of astronomy , which was shown in the competition for the Golden Palm (short film) in Cannes , and in 1991 Max Ernst: Mein Vagabundieren - Meine Unrest , who received the Bavarian Film Prize the following year. Max Ernst “essentially determined” his life, according to Schamoni in an interview. "The little that the public was able to know about Max Ernst, was allowed to see him, is thanks to Schamoni's wonderful films", Werner Spies summarized in 2011.

In 1973 Schamoni was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best documentary for his portrait of the Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Hundertwasser's Regentag . Schamoni's other artist biographies since 1990 include Niki de Saint Phalle (1995) and Botero - Born in Medellín through Fernando Botero . Schamoni worked several times with cameraman Ernst Hirsch .

Schamoni was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 .

In 2009 he received the Bavarian Film Prize as an author, director and producer in the category of honorary prize for a lifetime achievement . The Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer praised him as a "great and unmistakable film artist".

Schamoni had a son (Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, * 1977) and a granddaughter (* 2002). He lived in Munich and Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg . Schamoni died in Munich in 2011 and was buried in the Seeshaupt cemetery. The son has now emerged as a music producer.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films
Documentaries

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni film pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Schamoni: My Schamonis . Nymphenburger, Munich 1983.
  2. ^ Biography of Peter Schamoni . In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Ed.): Peter Schamoni film pieces . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, p. 188.
  3. ↑ a b Cf. biography of Peter Schamoni on schamoni.de
  4. ↑ See the illegal exercise of astronomy on festival-cannes.fr
  5. ^ Dpa: New German Film - The Filmmaker Peter Schamoni . In: Die Zeit , June 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ Werner Spies : The world in close focus . FAZ , June 14, 2011.
  7. ↑ sgo / ddp: Bavarian Film Prize goes to “Baader Meinhof Complex” . Der Tagesspiegel , January 16, 2009.
  8. ↑ Microcosm for niche music , portrait of Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer and his company Schamoni Musik , Deutschlandfunk from August 9, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schamoni, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2011
Place of death Munich