Siegfried Gebser
Siegfried Gebser (born April 21, 1936 in Halberstadt ) is a German documentary filmmaker and photographer .
Life
He survived the Allied air raids on Halberstadt on April 8, 1945 as a child in the cellar vault of the Liebfrauenkirche in Halberstadt.
After graduating from high school , he became an officer candidate in the National People's Army (NVA). When he subordination of the People's Navy under the Baltic Fleet refused the Soviet Union - he refused the oath of allegiance of the NVA store - he was there, "cadres political reasons" from the Seeoffiziersschule excluded in Stralsund. Instead, he completed an apprenticeship as a railway fitter.
Because he shot impressive photos of the surroundings of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , he was admitted to study camera at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg , which he recorded in the 1950s. However, he was initially de-registered due to behavior that was not in conformity with the regime . After that he worked for a short time as a locksmith in the LPG "Rotes Banner" in Trinwillershagen . From 1962 to 1964 he returned to the film school and trained there to become a cameraman . After years of freelance work, initially as a photographer, he was employed by the DEFA documentary film studios as an assistant director and later as a director cameraman. With the turn of 1991 he became unemployed.
From 1992 to 1999 he was the founding chairman of the Friends of Bornstedter Friedhofs Association . For the volume Bornstedt - Friedhof, Kirche (edited by Gottfried Kunzendorf and Manfred Richter, 2001) he contributed photos and captions from the Bornstedt cemetery.
Filmography
- 1976: pig farmer
- 1976: Nest building and rearing of young birds
- 1977: Scientific work organization in product development
- 1979: Osprey
- 1987: Buying up and determining the quality of sugar beet (part 1)
- 2004: The regiment
literature
- Erhart Hohenstein: Scenes from Reality. Documentary filmmaker and photographer Siegfried Gebser turns 70 today . In: Potsdamer Latest News , May 21, 2006, No. 93, p. 24.
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegfried Gebser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Siegfried Gebser at filmportal.de
- Film photo documentation by Siegfried Gebser
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contemporary witness reports on the destruction of Halberstadt . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 25, 2010.
- ↑ Karin Markert: Silk, Stasi, and also mold. Gugenheim Villa has its mansard roof again . In: Märkische Allgemeine , April 21, 2012, S. MAZEXTRA5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebser, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German documentary filmmaker and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |