Roland Steiner (director)

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Roland Steiner (director), 2007

Roland Steiner (born October 5, 1949 in Altenburg ) is a German director and screenwriter . He became known through the DEFA films Our Children and Youth Work Center .

Life

After training as a skilled worker with a high school diploma and basic military service in the NVA , Steiner studied for six years at the GDR Academy for Film and Television . After graduating in 1976, Steiner worked as a director in the children's film group. Films were made there for preschool children as well as with young people. Since studying, Steiner had "repeatedly had difficulties with individual films, up to and including abandonment or prohibition". For the film Jugendwerkhof he received the Findlingspreis in 1982 at the National Festival for Short and Documentary Films of the GDR in Neubrandenburg - together with Gitta Nickel , who received it for Gundula - born in 1958 .

“We artists who really wanted something and also did it, couldn't get into it that hard because we were always watched from all sides. But if what we did turned out really well, then it was an honor to be banned. We were respected by the audience for that. Our films could not and could not penetrate reality. But sometimes they showed people that a group of people are seriously dealing with their problems. For her it was a kind of synchronization with her life, reflected on a big screen. "

- “The Curiosity Principle” DEFA Documentary Filmmakers Tell, New Life Publishing House, 2012

In the 1980s Steiner worked on films about Günter Wallraff , Heinrich Hannover and Erich Fried . From 1991 to 1993 he was head of the directing department at the HFF Babelsberg. He then completed training as a therapist and worked until 1996 in an anthroposophical institution for severely mentally and physically disabled people. From 1996 to 2000 Steiner was head of journalism training at the University of Oldenburg.

Filmography

Director

  • 1973: probationary periods
  • 1973: Berg
  • 1975: working days
  • 1977: Declaration of love to Berlin (assistant director)
  • 1978: Youth time
  • 1979: Yesterday's film
  • 1979: Youth time ... in the city
  • 1980: On the way to earth
  • 1980: yesterday's film
  • 1981: Youth time for two
  • 1981: Wolfgang
  • 1981: Secrets of South Bohemia
  • 1982: Youth time: Youth workshop
  • 1982: Big City Animals. A film for children and adults
  • 1984: What we remember ...
  • 1985: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1985 / No. 41]
  • 1986: What we call life
  • 1987: Heinrich Hannover - lawyer
  • 1987: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1986 / No. 54]
  • 1987: Zeit-Raum - 46 hectares of primeval forest in Bohemia
  • 1988: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1987 / No. 59]
  • 1988: Alias ​​Günter Wallraff
  • 1988: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1988 / No. 63]
  • 1988: The whole world should stay. Erich Fried / A portrait
  • 1989: Our children
  • 1990: La Rotonda Vicenza
  • 1992: Wolf Kaiser - actor. Berlin Friedrichstrasse
  • 1994: What remains ... a memory of Erich Fried
  • 2010: Tender strength, Peter Zadek directs Major Barbara at the Schauspielhaus Zurich

script

  • 1978: Youth time
  • 1980: On the way to earth
  • 1981: Youth time for two
  • 1982: Youth time: Youth workshop
  • 1982: Big City Animals. A film for children and adults
  • 1984: What we remember ...
  • 1985: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1985 / No. 41]
  • 1986: What we call life
  • 1987: Heinrich Hannover - lawyer
  • 1987: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1986 / No. 54]
  • 1987: Zeit-Raum - 46 hectares of primeval forest in Bohemia
  • 1988: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1987 / No. 59]
  • 1988: Alias ​​Günter Wallraff
  • 1988: DEFA KINOBOX [Jg. 1988 / No. 63]
  • 1988: The whole world should stay. Erich Fried / A portrait
  • 1989 Our children
  • 1994: What remains ... a memory of Erich Fried
  • 2010: Tender Power, Peter Zadek directs Major Barbara

actor

literature

  • Rahel Marie Vogel: On the way to the new person: re-education to the "socialist personality" in the youth work yards Hummelshain and Wolfersdorf (1961 - 1989) Peter Lang Verlag 2010, ISBN 3-631-60259-6 . P. 83.
  • Ian Aitken: Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set. Routledge 2005, ISBN 1-135-20620-1 . P. 472.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ defa-stiftung.de. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ Wieland Becker and Volker Petzold: Tarkowski meets King Kong - History of the film club movement in the GDR. VISTAS, Berlin 2001, page 438.
  3. ↑ neulandmagazin.net. Retrieved August 22, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg