Roland click

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Roland Klick (born July 4, 1939 in Hof ) is a German director and screenwriter . His work has been awarded the Federal Film Prize several times .

Life

Klick was born in Hof and grew up in Nennslingen after the war . Klick studied theater studies and German studies in Munich , worked as a cameraman for a film by Rolf Schünzel in 1962 and made his first short film at Christmas in 1963 . After two further short films, Ludwig (1964) and Zwei (1965), the television film Jimmy Orpheus was made in 1966 .

Bübchen , his first feature film from 1968, was a success and Klick was praised as the hope of German cinema. In 1970,under the protection of the Israeli military, Klick filmedthe neo-western Deadlock with Mario Adorf in the lead rolein Israel . The film, for which Klick was deeply in debt, became his greatest success, both at the box office and with criticism: the director received his first federal film award and the film was awarded the title “particularly valuable”. At the Cannes Film Festival was deadlock shown in a special screening. As a result, Klick received several offers for spaghetti westerns and from Hollywood , including from Steven Spielberg , all of which he declined.

In 1973, he turned the supermarket with Eva Mattes , an urban film to the Marius Müller-Westernhagen Marius West contributed the title song. In 1975 he staged the adaptation of a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel with Lieb Vaterland mayst be . Click received his third federal film award for the full-length documentary Derby Fever USA about horse racing in the USA. In 1979 he created the German dubbed version of George A. Romero's apocalyptic horror shocker Dawn of the Dead (German title: Zombie ) for Bernd Eichinger's Neue Constantin Film as a dialogue author and director .

Two weeks before the start of shooting of the commissioned work Christiane F. - We Children from Zoo Station , the producer Bernd Eichinger Klick released after disagreements. Instead, between 1981 and 1983, with considerable financial difficulties , he realized White Star with Dennis Hopper , whose cocaine addiction caused great problems during the shooting and contributed to the fact that the film could only be realized as a fragment. White Star, who was awarded the Federal Film Prize, was a flop at the box office.

Between 1987 and 1989 the film Schluckauf was made , a comedy about a woman who moves from the country to Berlin. The film was never regularly released due to quarrels with the producer and the film funding agency .

After 1989, Klick withdrew from the film business. He works on film theoretical writings and books, teaches at several German film schools and after 1992 also worked for television under a pseudonym . He spends most of the year in Ireland .

Roland Klick called the often as auteur film called Young German film audience hostile. He himself tried to counter this with his action-oriented public cinema.

In September 2008, gave him the Berlin cinema Tilsiter Lichtspiele an overall retrospective. The documentary filmmaker Sandra Prechtel accompanied Klick for three years from 2010 and in her documentary The Heart is a Hungry Hunter also let companions like Hark Bohm , Otto Sander and Eva Mattes talk about Klick.

On the occasion of a retrospective on Klick's 80th birthday in the Berlin cinemas Lichtblick and Wolf in der taz, Thomas Groh wrote : “The fact that no official cinematheque pays tribute to Klick, but rather small, passionate art-house cinemas is symptomatic: Klick has long been the pillar saint of a resistant film culture below - in the 90s, the underground film magazine Splatting Image celebrated it , the then still lumbering Filmgalerie 451 label made the ostracized in a work edition next to Schlingensief a figurehead. ”Andreas Busche, film editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel , tries to click in his homage find out why the director should remain "a marginal figure" in German cinema: "Klick moved out of the comfort zone of German cinema. (...) Roland Klick (...) was no daredevil like Werner Herzog, who was in his He surrendered to the violence of nature and human beings with fearless death. Instead, he was looking for something that a got lost: Truthfulness. "

Awards

Filmography

literature

  • Ulrich von Berg: The Roland Klick cinema. Edition Filmwerkstatt, Essen 2004, ISBN 978-3-9807175-5-7 .
  • Andreas Martin Widmann: Lost in the supermarket. Beyond the New German Film - Roland Klick's cinema and career. Lettre international 123, winter 2018, ISSN 0945-5167

documentary

  • Roland Klick - The Heart is a Hungry Hunter. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 78:49 min., Script and director: Sandra Prechtel, production: Filmgalerie 451, ZDF , 3sat , first broadcast: 23 August 2014 on 3sat, summary by 3sat. ( Memento from August 14, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland click. In: Filmgalerie 451 .
  2. ↑ Harald Peters: Roland click. He was too crazy for German films. In: Die Welt , July 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Patrick Wildermann: The indomitable Roland click. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Thomas Groh: Cinema retrospective on Roland Klick: Who dances with the genres . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 4, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Andreas Busche: The principle of chaos. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Click, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)