Roland Dressel
Roland Dressel (born April 26, 1932 in Meerane ) is a German cameraman.
life and work
The son of a baker who died in the war was trained as a photographer in Glauchau from 1953 to 1954 and then worked as a still photographer and camera assistant in the DEFA studio for feature films with Günter Haubold , Jan Čuřík , Werner Bergmann and Erich Gusko, among others . After a distance learning at the German Academy for Film Art, he was a cameraman in the DEFA studio for feature films from 1965 to 1990.
Image experiments in The Second Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow were accused of camera errors. From 1977 he worked intensively with the director Rainer Simon , and later with Roland Gräf .
He has been a freelance cameraman since 1990. In 2017, the DEFA Foundation honored him for his life's work in film art as part of its award ceremony.
Filmography
- 1967: The flag of Krivoy Rog - Director: Kurt Maetzig
- 1968: Hot Summer - Director: Joachim Hasler
- 1970: Two letters to Pospischiel (TV) - Director: Ralf Kirsten
- 1971: Inrun (TV film)
- 1972: The Regiment Commander (TV) - Director: Lothar Bellag
- 1973: Cement (TV film, 2 parts)
- 1973: The Second Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow - Director: Siegfried Kühn
- 1975: Die unheilige Sophia (TV) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth
- 1976: Happy End (TV) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth
- 1977: The powdered man in the colorful skirt lives dangerously (TV) - Director: Klaus Gendries
- 1979: Ignition, the fire brigade is coming - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1981/1988: Jadup and Boel - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1982: Das Fahrrad - Directed by Evelyn Schmidt
- 1983: The Airship - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1983: Olle Henry
- 1984: Cascade backwards - Director: Iris Gusner
- 1984: The Woman and the Stranger - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1986: The house on the river
- 1988: Fallada - Final Chapter
- 1989: The Ascent of Chimborazo - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1991: The land behind the rainbow - Director: Herwig Kipping
- 1991: The case of Ö. - Director: Rainer Simon
- 1992: The Trace of the Amber Room - Director: Roland Gräf
- 1993: Farewell to Agnes - Director: Michael Gwisdek
- 1994: Police call 110: poor pigs
- 1996: My heart - nobody! - Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
- 1996: Crime scene: Murder when the scene appeared
- 1998: The Mambospiel - Director: Michael Gwisdek
- 2000: Desperation - love under the skin - director: Marcus Lauterbach
Awards
- 1976: Heinrich Greif Prize 2nd class for The Unholy Sophia in the collective
- 1984: Camera award at the 3rd GDR National Feature Film Festival in Karl-Marx-Stadt for Das Luftschiff
- 1986: Heinrich Greif Prize for The Woman and the Stranger in a Collective
- 1986: Camera award at the 4th GDR National Feature Film Festival in Karl-Marx-Stadt for The Woman and the Foreign and The House on the River
- 1988: Camera award at the 5th GDR National Feature Film Festival in Karl-Marx-Stadt for Wengler & Sons and Fallada - last chapter
- 1994: Gold film tape (camera) for parting with Agnes
- 2017: Prize of the DEFA Foundation for life's work in film art
literature
- Short biography for: Dressel, Roland . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Hans-Michael Bock (ed.): Lexicon of directors and cameramen from A – Z , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3 499 60651 8
Web links
- Roland Dressel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Roland Dressel at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dressel, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meerane |