Rüdiger Meichsner

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Rüdiger Meichsner (born August 5, 1940 in Graefelfing ) is a German cameraman .

The early years

The son of production and line manager Eberhard Meichsner came into the film industry through veteran cameraman Georg Bruckbauer . Bruckbauer gave him the tip to apply to the camera company ARRI . Meichsner completed a three-and-a-half year apprenticeship at Arri (and also an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic as part of the all-round training). In addition, he began to gain practical experience as Willy Winterstein's camera assistant .

After years as a camera assistant (including in 1961 for Die Hour, die du Glück’s , 1963 for Die Schwarze Kobra and the following winter for Rudolf Jugert ’s last film, the war drama Keyword: Heron ) he made his debut as a simple cameraman in 1963 (debut under Hans Jura in the crime thriller Piccadilly twelve o'clock ). Subsequently (1967/68) he worked as co-cameraman of the experienced Italian colleague Francesco Izzarelli in the Commissioner X films Commissioner X - Three Blue Panthers and Commissioner X - Three Golden Snakes .

In 1968 he started working as head cameraman for the cinema and first photographed Roger Fritz 's twisted, pseudophilosophical society melodrama Bunny in the Pit . From then on, Rüdiger J. Meichsner was behind the camera both in some of the routine ZDF crime stories penned by Herbert Reinecker ( 11:20 am , Der Kommissar ) and in three "Beetle" comedies about the VW wonder car Dudu by Rudolf Zehetgruber .

Cooperation with Klaus Lemke

In the second half of the 1970s, he began a close cooperation with the Munich filmmaker Klaus Lemke , which will continue into the new millennium ; the first joint production, broadcast in 1976, was the weird comedy Idols about two women in search of the ideal man, with which Lemke highlighted his future star Cleo Kretschmer . In 1978 he shot the wholesale market comedy Amore , also with Lemke and Kretschmer . Above all, the improvisational Lemke productions Arabische Nights and Ein Komischer Heiliger with the buxom, Bavarian natural talent Kretschmer in the female lead were not only celebrated in front of the critics as a genuine, authentic, bulky cinema with a Bavarian, semi-documentary touch, but also great public successes.

Since the beginning of the 80s, Meichsner, who in the meantime had had a serious falling out with Lemke, was only able to receive orders from film and television sporadically, and he began to focus on photography (and occasionally also staging) of industrial, advertising and Focus on educational films (such as TV service production on modern technology Tomorrow is yesterday ). Rüdiger Meichsner was also behind the camera for the overwhelming success of the SAT.1 audience, Der Bergdoktor .

At the beginning of the new millennium he got back together with Klaus Lemke and again photographed some of his cinema ( Running Out of Cool and Never Go to Goa ) and television productions (2000 Die Leopoldstrasse Kills Me , 2003 Last Minute Jamaica ).

At the beginning of 2007 Rüdiger Meichsner retired into private life.

Filmography (selection)

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  1. ↑ Lt. Meichsner's statement in an interview with film historian Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Meichsner, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefelfing