Thomas Ayck

Thomas Ayck (* 1939 in Hamburg ; † 1988 ) was a German documentary filmmaker , author and journalist .

Life

Thomas Ayck studied after an apprenticeship as a shipping agent , the subjects German , English literature and art history at the universities of Hamburg and Basel . In 1983 Ayck received his doctorate.

Ayck had worked as an editor and documentary filmmaker in the main department of culture and science at NDR since 1969 . Numerous contributions by him were broadcast in the series Titles, Theses, Temperaments , which still exists today . His fame began with the documentary film Obscenity as Social Criticism? Which was broadcast by NDR on October 20, 1970 . which has been hotly contested. Thomas Ayck's interview partners were

• Fernando Arrabal
• Tuli Kupferberg
• Herbert Marcuse
• Henry Miller and
• Andy Warhol .

In 1971 Ayck took part - together with Siegfried Lenz and Uwe Herms - in the events of the Social Democratic Voters' Initiative North (WIN) on the occasion of the Schleswig-Holstein state elections, in which Jochen Steffen ran for the office of Prime Minister.

Thomas Ayck created intensive portraits of the writers Siegfried Lenz, Alberto Moravia , Peter Weiss , James Baldwin , Halldór Laxness and the visual artist Francis Bacon, among others . In 1983 he made his portrait of Ida Ehre as an actress, director and theater director. In parallel to his television films, Ayck worked as an author and journalist.

Thomas Ayck was married. His wife Bärbel Ayck worked as a teacher in Hamburg at the Max-Brauer-Schule. The couple remained childless.

Publications

• Mark Twain . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-499-50211-9 .
• Jack London . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-499-50244-5 .
• Carl Zuckmayer . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1977, ISBN 3-499-50256-9
• Childless out of responsibility . With Inge Stolten . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-498-00012-8 .
• Karp, post-war child . Rogners Edition from Ullstein, Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-38515-X .
• Smelt singer . With illustrations by Horst Janssen . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-10-003302-7 .
• Not in the mood for children? A political pamphlet. With Inge Stolten. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Ayck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Ayck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Single generation: Thomas Ayck

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obscenity as social criticism? IMDb, accessed November 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ No understanding. In: Der Spiegel. November 16, 1970. Retrieved November 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Cultural Association Ida Honor. ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.