Robert van Ackeren
Robert van Ackeren (born December 22, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German film director , cameraman , screenwriter and film producer .
life and career
The son of Max and Hildegard van Ackeren worked at the Berlin Literary Colloquium from 1962 to 1964 and then studied until 1966 at the Film and Television Department of the Berlin School of Optics and Photo Technology. Trained as a cameraman , van Ackeren began making his own films in 1964 and worked with directors such as Roland Klick , Klaus Lemke , Werner Schroeter and Rosa von Praunheim .
In 1970 he founded the company Cine Circus with Manfred M. Schwarz, and in 1972 Robert van Ackeren Filmproduktion. His later films, which he directed himself, are mostly ironic moral images of the upper class and are characterized by a smooth, stylized visual language. Mostly he brought the relationship between man and woman to the fore in a pointed manner. Probably his greatest success was the film Die Flambierte Frau (1983) , which was somewhere between love drama and love comedy, starring Gudrun Landgrebe and Mathieu Carrière .
In 1979 he was offered a professorship for film at the Cologne Werkschulen and, after they closed, moved to the newly founded Art Academy for Media (KHM).
In 1995 van Ackeren described his memories of childhood and youth in an anthology.
In 2003 Robert van Ackeren was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .
Filmography (selection)
D = script, R = direction, K = camera, P = production
- 1966: The magic moment (experimental film) - D, R, P
- 1966: Jimmy Orpheus (medium length film) - K
- 1967: Tamara - K
- 1968: The Endless Journey (experimental film) - D, R, P
- 1968: Bübchen / The Little Vampire - K
- 1969: Arsonist - K
- 1969: The guy loves me - and should I believe that? - K
- 1969: Eika Katappa - K
- 1969: Nicaragua - K
- 1970: pusher - K
- 1970: Deadlock - K
- 1970: Blondie's Number One - D, R, K
- 1970: It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the situation in which he lives - K
- 1971: Salome (TV feature film) - K
- 1971: Kiss me, stranger - D, R, K
- 1972: Harlis (alternatively: a handful of tenderness ) - D, R, P
- 1975: The latest craze - D, R, P
- 1977: Belcanto or May a hooker sob? - D, R, P
- 1978: The Other Smile (TV feature film) - D, R
- 1980: The purity of the heart - D, R
- 1980: Germany private - an anthology of folk films - D, R, P
- 1982: Querelle - only acting
- 1983: The Flambéed Woman - D, R, P
- 1988: The Venus Trap - D, R, P
- 1992: The True Story of Men and Women - D, R, P
- 2007: Germany private - In the land of colorful dreams - D, R, P (also editing)
Awards
- 1973: Ernst Lubitsch Prize for Harlis
- 1973: Federal Film Prize : film tape in silver for Harlis
Web links
- Robert van Ackeren at filmportal.de
- Robert van Ackeren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Robert van Ackeren's biography and film list at www.deutsches-filmhaus.de
- Robert van Ackeren in conversation with taz (June 20, 2007)
- "Back to the petty bourgeois sex of the seventies" - Die Welt (June 20, 2007) on the revision of Germany Private
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data from Robert van Ackeren in: Who is Who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 9, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
- ↑ Self-portrait of childhood and youth in: Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): With us at home. Celebrities talk about their childhood. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-430-15945-8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ackeren, Robert van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, cameraman, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |