Stephan Guntli

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Stephan Guntli (born April 24, 1961 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss television journalist , film director and documentary producer living in Germany .

Life

After graduating from the Trogen Cantonal School in Appenzell Ausserrhoden , Switzerland , Stephan Guntli moved to West Berlin in 1981 and studied philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . Subsequently, between 1984 and 1985, together with Reiner Bumke, Michael F. Huse and Horst Weidenmüller, he ran the United Video System sales label, which was originally affiliated with Café Swing, via Stud! O K7 - audiovisual communication.

On this technically high, content-wise independent platform, the group developed and produced novel hybrid forms of video art, concert recording and scene reporting as well as idiosyncratic art and music clips . Especially in artistic collaboration with Michael F. Huse , and then with John Loder in his Southern Studios in London , Stephan Guntli realized numerous projects independent of the mainstream as cameraman, editor, director and / or producer . Including the first two Berlin Atonal concerts on non-conformist music organized by Dimitri Hegemann in the Pankehallen u. a. with Z'ev , La Loora, Psychic TV , as well as experimental concert recordings with the band Einstürzende Neubauten in the Berlin Metropol and in the so-called Golden Hall of the tribune on the Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg , as well as the video sampler : Kings of Independence about the 1987 concert by Swans , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution in Knopf's Music Hall on Hamburg's Reeperbahn .

For the poetry and the voice of Max Goldt , Guntli staged the art clip on Berlin subway routes that were deserted by people: Something is about to happen for the SFB format 45 Fever. As a writer and director he was responsible for the 35mm short film One Those Days. Guntli interprets the Beatles song A Day in the Life as the protagonist's surreal near-death experience , played by Ralph Herforth . As a cameraman he assisted the French director Philippe J. Grandrieux in his full-length documentary: Berlin (1987). The 210-minute project leads through the three western sectors , on viewing platforms along the wall and to people who had decided to live in West Berlin or whom the construction of the Wall forced to confine themselves to the western part of the city; in dialogue with Hanns Zischler , they talk about their realities, dreams and expectations. The film was originally made for La Sept (since 1992 ARTE France ) and is considered one of the first themed evenings. Stephan Guntli conducted the 45-minute discourse for ARD television and together with Wolf Donner in 1992 : Can't German film be better?

In 1993, after the dissolution of Stud! O K7 - audiovisual communication as a video and television production, its continuation as the independent music label Stud! O K7 and ! K7 records, Stephan Guntli founded the freelance journalist office: machwerk TV Produktion Berlin in the same year and realized for the WDR initially magazine articles such. B .: Love songs: Einstürzende Neubauten. This was followed by television documentaries and program-filling documentaries, including the 60-minute historical report: Operation Gold : Battle of the Secret Services in Berlin (1994) for the WDR and ORB .

The principle of Stephan Guntli's work still exists today to convey even bulky topics with the help of an intensive visual language in an effective way and to allow the portrayed people sufficient time to depict complex contexts and backgrounds. In addition, Guntli specialized in investigative television reportage and covered the grievances and the like at locations specially prepared for the cameras and staged key actions. a. in the areas of: private tutors , babysitters , cleaning ladies, luxury brokers, help in times of need and moral courage . As a director and producer, he realized well over 30 TV documentaries and reports as well as numerous reports, especially on behalf of stern TV for VOX and RTL , as well as for various documentary broadcasting slots in public broadcasters and the DVD market.

Stephan Guntli has a daughter and lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1983 Live in Berlin , 60 min., Video
  • 1984 Avoid the York Bridges! , 16 min., Video
  • 1985 Something is about to happen , 5 min., SFB
  • 1986 One of those days , 13 min., 35mm, SFB ( Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden: Predicate: Particularly valuable)
  • 1987 Making of: movie theater trailer, Theater an der Ruhr , 45 min., Video
  • 1987 Kings of Independence , 40 min., Video
  • 1987 Berlin , 210 min., La Sept (ARTE France), (camera)
  • 1990 Time is out of joint , 110 min., Director: Christoph Rüter , (editor)
  • 1992 Can't German film be better? , 45 min., ARD
  • 1992 Peter Hammill : In the Passionskirche - Berlin MCMXCII , 104 min., Video (DVD in 2002)
  • 1993 Love songs: Einstürzende Neubauten , 10 min., WDR
  • 1994 Operation Gold: Battle of the Secret Services in Berlin , 60 min., WDR, ORB
  • 1997 Making of: The story of Monty Spinnerratz , 30 min., HR
  • 2000 Police station Berlin Mitte , co-director with Kurt Langbein and Bert Ehgartner , 45 min., RTL
  • 2001 Taxi, Taxi - 24 hours , SAT 1
  • 2002 life on a tightrope: Johann Traber jr. , 16 min., Stern TV for VOX
  • 2002 Brautschau im Osten , stern TV for VOX
  • 2002 Making of: Fathers , X Films
  • 2005 Somebody has to do it. Unpopular jobs , stern TV for VOX, reporter / co-author
  • 2005 dinosaur. Bloody fight in Lower Saxony? , stern TV for RTL
  • 2007 From rental chefs and ghost hunters , stern TV for RTL
  • 2007 Flic Flac - Premiere fever , stern TV for VOX
  • 2008 Hidden Camera. The big cleaning women test , stern TV for RTL
  • 2008 tears at the final! Behind the scenes of DSDS , 47 min., Stern TV for VOX
  • 2008 test thieves , stern TV for VOX,
  • 2008 Poems for Laila - Live in Berlin , 105 min., DVD
  • 2008 Stealing instead of buying: About thieves and detectives , stern TV for VOX, co-author / reporter
  • 2009 Help in an emergency - customer services tested , stern TV for VOX
  • 2010 Nesthocker: a children's room forever? , 47 min., Stern TV for VOX
  • 2010 Lost in drunkenness: when mum drinks , 46 min., Stern TV for VOX
  • 2010 I want my daughter back: kidnapped children , 60 min., Stern TV for VOX

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Guntli, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen