Roman Brodmann
Roman Brodmann (born June 18, 1920 in Binningen ; † February 1, 1990 in Basel ) was a Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker .
Career
Roman Brodmann began his journalistic career in 1943 with the Basler Volksblatt and the daily newspaper Die Tat . From 1949 he wrote as a freelancer for various Swiss newspapers and was a cabaret author. In 1950 he got a job as a film critic for Swiss television and became editor-in-chief of Elle magazine . From 1961 to 1963 he was editor-in-chief of the Zürcher Woche .
Roman Brodmann simultaneously produced and hosted programs for Swiss television, including the popular Friday magazine , for which he received the Prix Italia in 1961 . After differences of opinion with Swiss television because of his socially critical attitude, he left Switzerland in 1963 and switched to ZDF as a freelance editor . In 1965 he went to the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart . There he worked for ARD telecast signs of the times . Brodmann also worked as a freelance journalist and author (Switzerland without weapons , Moscow simply) , as a director of critical documentary films ( The Dream of Slaughtering the Sacred Cow ) and as a teacher at the University of Television and Film Munich .
For his film Die Misswahl , Brodmann received the Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze in 1967 . For his documentary The Police State Visit - Observations among German hosts about the state visit of the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in West Berlin, during which the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot on the sidelines of a demonstration , Brodmann was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver in 1968 excellent. In 1976 he received the special award from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the Adolf Grimme Award for The Green People on Intensive 1 . Brodmann received another Adolf Grimme Silver Award in 1988 for The Dream of Slaughtering the Most Holy Cow .
In 1983 he received the Basel Culture Prize .
Works
Books
- Aphrodite's diary: a summer story for lovers and sailors. Turicum-Verlag, Zollikon 1957
- Delirium feriarum: Analysis of a contemporary hysteria with special consideration of its most popular symptoms, with some medical advice for prophylaxis and therapy. JR Geigy, Basel 1960.
- Schorsch Brunau: My little message in a bottle. Drawings by Viktor Speich. Sanssouci, Zurich 1963.
- Switzerland without weapons: 24 hours in the year X ... Benteli, Bern 1973.
- The non-Swiss, what do the confederates do with a dissident? From the Ziegler case to the Switzerland case. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1977.
- «Moscow simply»: written 1968–1984. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1984.
- ed. with Andreas Gross , Marc Spescha: On the way to a Switzerland without an army: The free walk out of the fortress. Z-Verlag, Basel 1986.
Films (selection)
- 1966: The Miss Vote - Observations at a beauty contest
- 1967: The police state visit - observations among German hosts
- 1977: Benito Mussolini - The deformation of a person
- 1977: witnessed the death of a newspaper
- 1979: Laterna Teutonica - footnotes on the history of the German sound film
- 1. When the language left speechless
- 2. Farewell performances
- 3. The patron
- 4. The turtles
- 5. The devil's directors
- 6. Käutner and then Staudte
- 7. When the war was over
- 1981: Glacier Express - the slowest express train in the world
- 1981: SOS on Piz Palü
- 1983: The Lapland arrow
- 1984: Bernina Express - To paradise at five to twelve
- 1984: El Talgo
- 1985: Transcorsica - Between bombs and tourists
- 1986: Métro - The incredibly human underground
- 1987: The dream of slaughtering the holiest cow (1982–1987)
literature
- Frauke Böhm: Time-critical documentary film in the field of tension between TV journalism and auteur film: Roman Brodmann. Diss. Phil. Marburg / Lahn 2000 (with extensive filmography). PDF online
- Therese Steffen Gerber: Brodmann, Roman. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005
- Roman Seifert: Roman Brodmann in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
Web links
- Roman Brodmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Publications by and about Roman Brodmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Roman Brodmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- René Zeyer : How Roman Brodmann helped to question the holiest cow. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 28, 2020.
Remarks
- ^ Prize of the City of Pisa for television documentaries for La vie est une fête by Felice A. Vitali, produced by Roman Brodmann.
- ↑ This film in the Südfunk series “ Zeichen der Zeit” was made during the Shah's visit to West Berlin in 1967, during which the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by the police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras .
- ↑ This film was made in 1977 for Südwestfunk SWR. It illuminates the background of the largest Swiss press merger , the merger of Basler Nachrichten and the National-Zeitung to form Basler_Zeitung .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Therese Steffen Gerber: Brodmann, Roman. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005
- ^ Prix Italia, Past Edition, Winners 1949–2003 ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Prix Italia RAI (PDF; 198 kB; English)
- ↑ Signs of the Times. Stefan Niggemeier in fernsehlexikon.de accessed on January 16, 2011
- ^ Chronicle of the Basler Stadtbuch. Entry from June 19, 1983 online at basler-stadtbuch.ch, accessed on August 3, 2020.
- ↑ Settled with the carnival. Jürg-Peter Lienhard in webjournal.ch on February 29, 2004, accessed on January 16, 2011
- ↑ Challenged. The history of the Basler Zeitung. Entry in the research blog of February 17, 2012, online at bazbuch.ch, accessed on February 17, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brodmann, Roman |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Binningen |
DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1990 |
Place of death | Basel |