Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner Eberhard Moritz (* 1938 in Hanover ) is a German film director and film producer . Moritz made an internationally recognized name for himself in the field of art and cultural documentaries, which he realized "with expertise and the highest quality standards".

Life

Moritz studied musicology , German and Romance languages . In 1970 he was researched at the University of Munich on the German-language travelogues of the 14th to 16th PhD in the 19th century . He began his professional career as a music journalist.

In 1977 he founded RM Creative Fernseh- und Film-GmbH in Munich , which still exists today. In 1978, the RM Arts TV and Film GmbH was founded , which later passed to the Kirch Group and has been owned by Arthaus Musik since 2005 with rights to around 900 productions . RM Arts produced a large number of documentaries in the fields of music and visual arts .

From 1981, RM Arts produced the painting series 1000 masterpieces under the direction of Moritz for WDR ; The cameraman was Konrad Kotowski . Moritz knew the Russian composer Dmitri Schostakowitsch personally and wrote the documentary A Man with Many Faces about him in 2014/15 .

Honors

• 1976: Nomination for the Emmy Award , Category: Outstanding Classical Musical Program for Three by Balanchine with The New York City Ballet in PBS 
• 2007: Honorary Award of the German Record Critics 
• 2009: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland 

Filmography (selection)

Director 1981: 100 masterpieces from the great museums of the world (series) 1991: Werner Tübke . From the adventure of finding a picture 1993: Otto Dix , the eye of the world , ISBN 978-3-7701-3307-9 2004: L'heure espagnole (opera by Maurice Ravel ) 2006: The Real Rameau 2008: Hélène Grimaud - Living with wolves 2014: Dance makes television history 2015: Dmitri Shostakovich - a man with many faces

producer 1972: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 1978: Monsieur René Magritte 1984: Puccini 1989: Rossini's Pasticcio or The Birth of Culinary Art from the Spirit of Composition 1992: The double life of Arnold Bax 1998: In Rehearsal: Christoph von Dohnányi with the Philharmonia Orchestra 1999: Cloud Gate Dance Theater : Songs of the Wanderers (music: polyphonic Georgian folk songs by the Rustavi Choir  )

Fonts

• Reiner E. Moritz (Ed.): Knaurs Musiklexikon. Droemer Knaur, Munich, 1st edition 1982, linen, ISBN 3-426-26067-0 . With contributions by James Galway , George Gruntz , Joachim Kaiser , William Mann , JH Kwabena Nketia , Claus Raab , Karl Schumann, Ravi Shankar and Erich Valentin .
• The romantic age. Translated and edited by Reiner E. Moritz, manuscript for the series of the Bavarian TV. TR-Verlagsunion, Munich 1984, DNB 551278242 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reiner E. Moritz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Reiner E. Moritz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Reiner E. Moritz at Allmusic (English)
• Reiner E. Moritz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• RM Arts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• www.rm-arts.eu - no longer available

Individual evidence

1. ^ Moritz, Reiner E. 1938 -. In: WorldCat Identities , accessed December 27, 2017.
2. ↑ DNB 119526050 In: German National Library .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Honorary Awards 2007. In: Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik , accessed on November 19, 2015.
4. ^ TV and film company RM Creative. ( Memento from November 19, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Gewerbeeauskunft-zentrale.de .
5. ↑ RM Creative TV and Film GmbH - Grünwald. In: plusbranchenbuch.com , accessed on December 27, 2017.
6. ^ RM Creative television and film company. In: firma-24.de , accessed on December 27, 2017.
7. ↑ RM Arts TV and Film GmbH. In: europages.de , accessed on December 27, 2017.
8. ^ Daniela Weyh: RM Arts TV and Film GmbH resumes production. Oliver Becker is the new producer of the Arthaus Musik subsidiary. In: Musenblätter , August 26, 2008, accessed December 27, 2017.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Dmitri Schostakowitsch - A man with many faces. In: ARD-alpha , February 8, 2015, first broadcast.
10. ↑ Awards & Nominations. In: emmys.com , accessed on December 28, 2017.
11. ↑ Reiner E. Moritz received a Finnish medal. In: Embassy of Finland, Berlin , November 17, 2009, accessed on November 19, 2015.
12. ↑ Dance makes television history. ( Memento from March 15, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ). In: ORF 2 .
13. ↑ Rossini's Pasticcio or The Birth of Culinary Art from the Spirit of Composition. In: Lexicon of International Films .
14. ↑ Chakrulo singing: Georgian polyphonic singing. In: Unesco - Intangible Cultural Heritage .
15. ^ RM Creative television and film company. In: mediabiz.de , accessed on December 27, 2017.