Rainer Schaper
Rainer Schaper (* 11. January 1950 in Hannover , † 7. March 2001 in Berlin ) was a German art director , Production Designer at the Theater , decorators and film producer .
Life
Schaper had received training in architecture, art and stage design in the first half of the 1970s. He completed his studies with a degree in engineering . He then gained practical experience as a stage design assistant at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus as well as at Berlin's Schiller Theater and the Schaubühne .
Active in film since 1979, Rainer Schaper oversaw both German and international cinema productions made with German participation, including Ruy Guerra's ambivalent adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez 's The Unbelievable and Sad Story of the Simple-Minded Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother and the highly successful Bernd Eichinger -Production The name of the rose for which Schaper created a monastic and medieval ambience.
In the mid-1990s, Schaper, who was also active in television, largely ended his architectural work and took over the management of the Babelsberg film studio , succeeding Volker Schlöndorff . Due to his considerable commitment, Schaper succeeded in a number of national and international large-scale productions (including most recently Jean-Jacques Annaud's Duel - Enemy at the Gates , the Furtwängler political drama Taking Sides and Roman Polański's The Pianist ) into his work until shortly before his death To get managed studios that were realized in Babelsberg or in the Brandenburg area.
Schaper died unexpectedly of a cerebral infarction at the age of only 51 .
Filmography (selection)
- as a production designer at the cinema
- 1979: Fabian
- 1980: Malou
- 1980: Christiane F. - We children from Bahnhof Zoo
- 1981: White Star (WP: 1983)
- 1982: The man on the wall
- 1982: Bella Donna
- 1982: The unbelievable and sad story of the innocent Eréndira and her heartless grandmother
- 1983: Vanishing point Berlin
- 1984: wings and fetters
- 1984: André manages them all
- 1985: three against three
- 1986: the name of the rose
- 1987: The glass sky
- 1987: The lovers
- 1988: La amiga - The girlfriend
- 1988: Killing Blue
- 1988: the storyteller
- 1991: Soft shadows
- 1992: The Democratic Terrorist (The Democratic Terrorist)
- 1992: The green Heinrich
- 1993: women are wonderful (also film roles)
- 1994: Not with Leo
- 1996: Conversation with the Beast
- 1999: Land of milk and honey
- 2001: Taking Sides - Der Fall Furtwängler (only production management)
- 2001: The pianist (only production manager)
literature
- Kay Less : The Film's Great Personal Lexicon , Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 81.
Web links
- Rainer Schaper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rainer Schaper at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel : Died: Rainer Schaper , Der Spiegel 11/2001, March 12, 2001, accessed on October 31, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaper, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film architect, set designer and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berlin |