Thomas Heise

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Thomas Heise at an idea of home is a space out of time as part of UNDERDOX (2019)

Thomas Heise (born August 22, 1955 in Berlin (GDR) ) is a German documentary filmmaker , author and theater director.

Life

Heise, son of Germanist Rosemarie Heise and philosophy professor Wolfgang Heise , completed an apprenticeship as a printer from 1971 to 1973. After a year of military service in the NVA , Thomas Heise worked from 1975 to 1978 as an assistant director in the DEFA studio for feature films, including for Heiner Carow's Until Death Do You Part (1978). At the same time he made up his Abitur at night school. In 1978 he began studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television , which he broke off in 1982 in order to preserve his artistic freedom. Since then Heise has been working as a freelance writer and director. His first documentary films , which were made during his studies and for the State Film Documentation of the GDR, were banned or not shown.

From 1987 to 1990 Heise was a master student with Gerhard Scheumann at the Academy of Arts of the GDR . During this time he realized the radio feature Resistance and Adaptation - Survival Strategy for the radio in the GDR . A man's memories of the Dachau camp (1987), based on his conversations with the actor Erwin Geschonneck . Resistance and adaptation is one of the most important works in the field of original sound features. Despite Geschonneck's advocacy, the finished production was put on hold for political reasons and relegated to the archive. At the beginning of December 1989, four weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the piece was first broadcast on Berlin radio .

From 1990 to 1997 Heise was a member of the Berliner Ensemble .

It was only after the peaceful revolution that Thomas Heise became known and presented several controversial works, including 1992 STAU - Here we go about the right-wing youth scene in Halle an der Saale . From 1993 to 1998 he staged several pieces for the Berliner Ensemble , including Bertolt Brecht's Der Brotladen (1993) and Joe Fleischhacker (1998), Heiner Müller's Zement (1994) and Der Bau (1996) and Michael Wildenhains Im Schlagschatten des Mondes und Hungrige Herzen ( 1995). In 2002 he was honored by the DEFA Foundation with the Prize for the Promotion of German Film Art . His film My Brother. We Will Meet Again was shown at the Berlinale 2005 .

Between the 2007/08 winter semester and the 2013 summer semester, Thomas Heise was Professor of Film at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe . Since the 2013/2014 winter semester he has been Professor of Art and Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

On September 5, 2008, he shot the segment about the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station for Volker Heise's 24-hour documentary film project 24h Berlin - A Day in Life , which was broadcast on several television channels exactly one year later.

Heises film The situation about the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. in Germany 2011 was screened in the Forum of the Berlinale 2012. In his documentary Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit , Heise uses letters from his grandfather Wilhelm Heise and his father Wolfgang Heise to create a family story spanning four generations and, at the same time, a history of Germany in the 20th century. The film does not get caught up in an anonymous large-scale event, but is also "counter-historiography" in that it represents a differentiating view of the GDR "based on existing realities and mentalities". The film premiered in February 2019 at the Forum of the Berlinale and was awarded the main prize of the German Documentary Film Prize in Stuttgart in June 2019.

Filmography

  • 1980/1989: Why a film about these people? (HFF Potsdam)
  • 1981: Anka and ... [canceled]
  • 1982: Inventor 82 (HFF Potsdam)
  • 1984: Das Haus ( State film documentation of the GDR)
  • 1985: People's Police / 1985 ( State film documentation of the GDR)
  • 1987: Heiner Müller 1
  • 1989: November 4, 1989
  • 1990: Snack special
  • 1990: Brandenburg prison, December 1989
  • 1991: Iron Age
  • 1992: STAU - Here we go
  • 1997: Barluschke
  • 2000: Neustadt (traffic jam - the state of affairs)
  • 2000: my pub
  • 2002: Fatherland
  • 2005: My Brother - We'll Meet Again
  • 1999/2006: In luck (negro)
  • 2007: children. How the time flies
  • 2009: material
  • 2011: solar system
  • 2012: The location
  • 2012: present
  • 2014: City dweller
  • 2019: Home is a space made of time

Awards (selection)

  • 1990: Radio play of the month for first name Jonas
  • 1991: Sponsorship award, 34th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Leipzig, for Iron Age
  • 1992: Sponsorship award, DokumentART Neubrandenburg, for Iron Age
  • 1992: Best Documentary Film, Prize of the German Film Critics Duisburg Film Week , for STAU - Here we go
  • 1993: 1st Prize from the Danish Film Institute, for STAU - Let's start
  • 1993: 1st prize from the Dutch Television Academy, for STAU - Now we go
  • 1995: Art Prize for Film and Media Art, Academy of the Arts (Berlin)
  • 1997: Silver Dove, 40th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Leipzig, for Barluschke
  • 2000: Best Documentary, Prize of the German Film Critics, Saarbrücken, for Neustadt (traffic jam - the state of things)
  • 2002: Prize of the DEFA Foundation for the Promotion of German Film Art
  • 2003: Prix special, Visions du Réel Nyon, for Fatherland
  • 2005: Prize of the Goethe Institute , Duisburg Film Week , for My Brother
  • 2007: Silberne Taube, 45th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Leipzig, for children. How the time flies
  • 2009: Grand Prix of the International Competition, Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille, for material
  • 2014: DEFA Förderpreis, 61st International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Leipzig, for city ​​dwellers
  • 2014: Arte Documentary Award, Duisburg Film Week, for city ​​dwellers
  • 2019: German Documentary Film Award for Heimat is a space from time
  • 2019: Caligari Prize for Home is a Space from Time

Radio plays and features

  • 1984: Schweigendes Dorf (also role as a friend) - Director: Thomas Heise (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
  • 1987: Resistance and Adaptation - Survival Strategy - Director: Thomas Heise ( Feature - Rundfunk der DDR)

Fonts

  • Traces. An Archeology of Real Existence , Texts for the Documentary, Volume 13; Vorwerk publishing house 2010. ISBN 978-3-940384-22-5

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Heise  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Your own life story in: Live again at long last: The fifties in retrospect of women, Hg. Helga Hirsch, Siedler Verlag 2012, pp. 199 - 242; in google books appreciated
  2. ↑ Petra Kohse: Vodka would have been okay. In: taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, January 2, 1997, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Patrick Conley: “Farewell to this country. The feature in the GDR. ” ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: Cut , Vol. 3, No. 10 (October 1999): pp. 36–40. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radio-feature.de
  4. ↑ a b Film and Media Art - Members. In: Website of the Academy of the Arts. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ TRAFFIC - now it starts D 1992 , traffic jam - now it starts (1992)
  6. ↑ Barbara Wurm: Thomas Heise on his Berlinale film: "The East is a Pimple" , Interview with Thomas Heise, Taz , February 9, 2019
  7. ↑ Michael Girke, The whole world. The Duisburg Film Week was primarily about measuring home, in: Junge Welt , November 15, 2019
  8. ↑ German Documentary Film Award 2019 for Thomas Heise , Südwest Presse , June 28, 2019
  9. ↑ Review by Ulrich Kriest: Konkret , September 10, 2019, p. 40 (also online)
  10. ↑ Berlinale 2019: Caligari Prize for Thomas Heise. In: Filmdienst . February 15, 2019, accessed September 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Subtitle: With "Home is a space from time" Thomas Heise tells a story of Germany in the 20th century using letters from his famous parents. (Rosemarie Heise lived from 1927 - 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Heise, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin