Thomas Hartwig

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Thomas Hartwig (born February 28, 1941 in Rostock ) is a German cameraman , screenwriter , author and editor of non-fiction books and author of an extensive novel.

Hartwig completed training as a trick cameraman and assistant director , from 1966 to 1968 he studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. He later worked as an author and cameraman, in 1974 he founded "JOJO Filmproduktion" in Berlin. Hartwig shot various films for the broadcaster Free Berlin and WDR . From 1993 he was a lecturer in screenwriting at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy , and from 1996 he held the same position at the Munich University of Television and Film . Between 1994 and 1996 he was script editor, dramaturge and author at Bavaria Film and Colonia-Media.

Filmography (selection)

camera

  • 1973: The love of the country

Script and direction

1970: We want to build flowers and fairy tales (camera too)

  • 1977: The color of the sky
  • 1978: The skyscraper
  • 1980: A bushel of seeds
  • 1985: In the shadow of yesterday
  • And about 50 documentaries and features

Prizes, awards and grants

  • 1986 silver DAG television award for Im Schatten von Gestern
  • Literature scholarship from the state of Brandenburg (1997) for my heart burned for your heart
  • Town clerk in Rheinsberg 2000
  • Working grant from the Cultural Foundation 2001
  • Schiller Society literature scholarship 2004
  • 1st Rotarian Germany Media Prize for the radio feature "I miss the sun and the sea" 2012, Deutschlandfunk
  • Funding of the edition "Beloved Demon ..." A German-Jewish love story between the poet Lola Landau and the writer Armin T. Wegner in letters from 1916 - 1977 "by the German Literature Fund (2014 and 2016).

Publications

  • together with Achim Roscher (photos): The promised city: German-Jewish emigrants in New York; Conversations, impressions, etc. Pictures , Berlin: Das Arsenal 1986, ISBN 3-921810-66-3 .
  • (Ed.): Positano or the way into third life: two autobiographical anecdotes / Lola Landau , edited from the estate, Berlin: Verl. Das Arsenal 1995, ISBN 3-921810-62-0 .
  • (Ed.): "World over": Farewell to the seven forests; the 1933/34 concentration camp letters (correspondence between Armin T. Wegner and Lola Landau ), edited from the estate, Berlin: Verlag Das Arsenal 1999, ISBN 3-931109-14-3 .
  • The magic of Rheinsberg: anecdotes & stories from a small town , Stuttgart; Leipzig: Hohenheim-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89850-076-4 .
  • The Armenian: Roman , with an afterword by Mischa Wegner, Munich: Salon-LiteraturVerlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-939321-56-9 .
  • "Land that the sun gave me" - diary for the novel "Die Armenierin", Salon-LiteraturVerlag, Munich, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Hartwig, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock