Robert Fischer (film journalist)

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Robert Fischer at the Munich Film Festival 2014.

Robert Fischer (born October 2, 1954 in Greven , also: Robert Fischer-Ettel , pseudonym: Robert J. Kirberg ) is a German film journalist, director and film historian.

Live and act

Robert Fischer began his career as a film journalist in 1974 with his first publications in the industry information service Film-Telegramm Hamburg.

From 1975 to 1980 he studied journalism, German literature and art history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During his studies he was responsible for reviews and festival reports for the trade journal Evangelischer Filmbeobachter .

In his work as a freelance film publicist and journalist, he published numerous articles in the specialist journals epd Film and steadycam , as well as his own book publications. In 1984 he took up a position as a correspondent for the London film trade journal Screen International and at the same time worked until 1990 as the German editor of the festival magazine Journal for the Berlinale .

From 1986 to 1994 Fischer was the editor in charge of the official festival catalog of the Munich Film Festival , and since 1992 he has also been a member of the International Film Program Selection Committee. From 1995 to 1999 he was deputy or acting director of the Filmmuseum of the Münchner Stadtmuseum before he mainly devoted himself to his work as a documentary filmmaker.

Robert Fischer (center) moderated a conversation with child actor Kyle Catlett and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet about their work The Map of My Dreams at the Munich Film Festival 2014 .

From 2000 to 2002 he was teaching at the University of Television and Film Munich and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy .

Together with Herbert Klemens , Fischer founded the film-historical image archive Filmbild Fundus in 1993 , which has recorded around one million motifs from the silent film era to the present day and, according to the company, is one of the largest private film image archives in Germany.

Robert Fischer conceptualized and realized exhibitions on the subject of film in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Frankfurt. He worked on dubbing books mainly for French films and took on numerous subtitles.

Robert Fischer was represented on the following selection committees, among others:

Publications

author

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock. A picture documentation of his art . Roloff and Seeßlen program, Schondorf 1979, ISBN 3-88144-132-8 .
  • with Joe Hembus: The New German Film 1960–1980 . Goldmann, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-442-10211-1 .
  • The last metro. Film by François Truffaut (= Truffaut series of publications, Volume 3). Filmland Press, Munich 1982.
  • as Robert J. Kirberg: Steve McQueen - his films, his life . Heyne, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-86081-0 .
  • with Joe Hembus and Paolo Taggi: Il nuovo cinema tedesco 1960–1986. Gremese Editore, Rome 1987, ISBN 88-7605-282-8 .
  • Meekness and violence: the director and actor Bernhard Wicki . Edition Filmwerkstatt, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-9807175-6-9 .
  • David Lynch. The dark side of the soul . 3rd edition, Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05240-4 .
  • Jodie Foster - Hollywood's child prodigy . 2nd edition, Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-05975-1 .
  • Isabella Rossellini. Fascination of a face . Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-07319-3 .
  • with Peter Sloterdijk , Klaus Theweleit, Andreas Rost (eds.): Images of violence. With a controversy between Hans Günter Pflaum and Klaus Schreyer . Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-88661-153-1 .
  • Bernhard Wicki: director and actor . Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-08515-9 .
  • Vivement Truffaut! Photos, posters, motifs from the Robert Fischer Collection . CICIM, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-920727-10-X .
  • with Peter Körte, Georg Seeßlen: Quentin Tarantino. 4th edition, Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-929470-88-8 .

editor

  • François Truffaut, Elmar Elling: Jules and Jim. Film by François Truffaut (= Truffaut series of publications, Volume 1). Filmland-Presse, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88690-045-2 .
  • François Truffaut, Karl-Dietmar Möller: Fahrenheit 451. Film by François Truffaut Filmland-presse, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88690-046-0 .
  • François Truffaut: Letters 1945–1984 . vgs, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-8025-2188-9 .
  • Michael Althen, Edward Dmytryk: Edward Dmytryk - film director . Edition Filmwerkstatt, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-9802581-0-6 .
  • Monsieur Truffaut, how did you do it? François Truffaut in conversation with José-Maria Berzosa, Jean Collet and Jérôme Prieur . vgs, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-8025-2199-4 .
  • François Truffaut: The films of my life. Essays and Reviews . Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-88661-174-4
  • François Truffaut: The pleasure of seeing . Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-88661-215-5 .
  • Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: François Truffaut: biography . vgs, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8025-2543-4 .
  • François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock: Truffaut / Hitchcock - Complete Edition (= Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? ). Diana, Munich / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-8284-5021-0 .
  • Rui Nogueira, Jean-Pierre Melville: Cinema of the Night. Conversations with Jean-Pierre Melville . Alexander, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89581-075-4 .
  • André Bazin: What is film? Alexander, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89581-062-2 .
  • Robert Bresson: Notes on the Cinematograph . Alexander, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-89581-173-4 .
  • and translator: Éric Rohmer / Claude Chabrol : Hitchcock . Alexander-Verlag, Berlin / Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-89581-280-4 .

Movies

  • Strange behavior of moving pictures (1978, direction, screenplay, production, editing)
  • La niña de tus ojos (1998, Dialogue Coach, actor)
  • Monsieur Truffaut meets Mr. Hitchcock (1999, director, screenplay)
  • Never stop starting - Ufa star Carola Höhn (2000, director, screenplay)
  • Milos Forman: Cinema is Truth (2000, director, screenplay)
  • Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002, director)
  • Working with François Truffaut: Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon, Co-Writers (2003, revision, editing)
  • Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood (2006, Director, Screenplay)
  • Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin - From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood (2006, director, screenplay)
  • About love and constraints: conjectures about Fassbinder's "I just want you to love me" (2010, director, screenplay)
  • Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (2011, director, screenplay)
  • The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Despair" Revisited (2011, director, screenplay)
  • Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora (2014, Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • On your own: The Visions of Sir Hubert von Herkomer (2014, direction, screenplay, production)
  • Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2016, direction, screenplay, production)

In addition, Fischer has recorded various interview films since 2003, which are distributed as bonus material by, among others, The Criterion Collection and Fantoma .

Awards

Fischer has been awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French film in Germany, awarded by Culture Minister Jack Lang on June 15, 1990. As an author, Fischer won the epd Film's readers' poll for the film book of the year in 1990, 1991 and 1997 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bertz-fischer.de/autoren_f.php
  2. ↑ http://www.fictionfactoryfilm.de/profile/
  3. ↑ http://deutsches-filminstitut.de/filmmuseum/ausstellungen/sonderausstellung/ausstellungsarchiv/sonderausstellungen-1996/
  4. ↑ Robert Fischer took over the subtitling and a. for "Une belle fille comme moi" and "Vivement Dimanche" by Truffaut
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/name/nm0279103/
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer-Ettel, Robert (full name); Kirberg, Robert J. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film journalist and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Greven