Romuald Karmakar
Romuald Karmakar (born February 15, 1965 in Wiesbaden ) is a film director and screenwriter living in Germany . He mainly shoots documentaries , but also feature films .
life and work
Karmakar is the son of a French mother and an Iranian father. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens , in 1984 he graduated from the Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium in Munich and began making documentaries and feature films in the mid-1980s. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin.
In 1995, Karmakar Götz staged George as the mass murderer Fritz Haarmann in the feature film Der Totmacher . In 2008 he shot the segment about Berghain -DJ Ricardo Villalobos for Volker Heise's 24-hour documentary film project 24h Berlin - A Day in a Lifetime . For the joint project Deutschland 09 presented at the Berlinale 2009 , Karmakar contributed the short film Ramses .
In 2010, a Karmakar retrospective took place at the Filmmuseum Vienna , at which, at the request of Karmakar, Utopia by Sohrab Shahid Saless was shown.
Romuald Karmakar designed the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2013 together with Ai Weiwei , Santu Mofokeng and Dayanita Singh . From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In November 2014 he received an award for his services in German film at the 14th award ceremony of the DEFA Foundation . In 2017 he took part in documenta 14 .
Filmography
- 1985: A friendship in Germany
- 1987: Coup de boule
- 1988: Gallodrome
- 1988: Hellman Rider
- 1989: Dogs made of velvet and steel
- 1990: Sam Shaw on John Cassavetes
- 1991: Dismantling IX - Stahlglocke company
- 1992: Warheads
- 1994: The Tyrant of Turin
- 1994: Infight
- 1995: The Dead Maker
- 1998: The Frankfurt Cross
- 2000: Manila
- 2000: The Himmler Project
- 2003: The night of Yokohama
- 2003: 196 bpm
- 2004: The night sings its songs
- 2004: Land of Annihilation
- 2005: Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea
- 2006: Hamburg lessons
- 2009: Ramses (also as a segment in: Germany 09 - 13 short films on the State of the Union )
- 2009: Villalobos
- 2010: A man we trust: Ralf Otterpohl, water specialist
- 2010: Donkey with Snow (short film)
- 2011: The Lord's flock
- 2012: Attack on Democracy - An Intervention
- 2017: I think of Germany at night
Radio plays
- 1993: Night over Gospič (41 min; premiere: July 2, 1993, BR )
- 1997: The Warheads Oratorio (with Michael Farin , Kalle Laar , Zeitblom ) 66 min; World premiere: November 28, 1997, BR radio play and media art , CD intermedium rec. 006, ISBN 3-934847-12-9
- 2008: "Well, stop grinning!" - Fragments of the Stammheim Trial (51 min; premiere: 23 November 2008, WDR )
literature
- Tobias Ebbrecht: Pictures behind the words: Searching for traces in the space: the filmmaker Romuald Karmakar. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940426-38-3
- Olaf Möller, Michael Omasta (eds.): Romuald Karmakar , FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Volume 13, Vienna: SYNEMA Society for Film and Media, 2010, ISBN 978-3-901644-34-4
Audios
- I'm only interested in my view of things (MP3; 41.9 MB) Deutschlandfunk Feature July 2nd, 2013 by Aishe Malekshahi - Audio 1/2 year online
Web links
Own online offers
Libraries and databases
- Literature by and about Romuald Karmakar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Romuald Karmakar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Collection Romuald Karmakar / Pantera Film GmbH in the Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt am Main
- Romuald Karmakar at filmportal.de
- Biography and filmography on kino-zeit.de
Interviews and press reports
- BANG BANG - Encounters with Romuald Karmakar and his films - essay by Alexander Horwath on sensesofcinema.com
- “Doubts are part of the cinema” - Interview, taz from July 27, 2002
- “I like when language becomes condensate” - Interview, taz from February 19, 2004
- Article about Hamburg Lessons , La Gazette de Berlin (French)
- Les podcasts de la Sorbonne nouvelle, interview video
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information on Filmportal.de, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Short biography of Romuald Karmakar on the website of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin
- ↑ In what kind of country do we live? , Zeit Online from July 31, 2009
- ↑ Ai Weiwei and Romuald Karmakar in the German pavilion on spiegel.de, October 19, 2012
- ^ German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 6, 2019.
- ^ Romuald Karmakar on the Harvard University website
- ↑ Prices of the DEFA Foundation 2014 , accessed on November 17, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karmakar, Romuald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |