Thomas Koerfer

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Thomas Koerfer (born March 23, 1944 in Bern ) is a Swiss film director , producer and distributor . He is one of the co-founders of the young Swiss-German feature film.

life and work

François Simon as the flea circus director in Thomas Koerfer's film

Thomas Koerfer was born in 1944 in Bern to the industrialist Jacques Koerfer and his wife Irène, née Feine. He is a grandson of the Cologne architect Jacob Koerfer and nephew of the architect Hanns Koerfer . His siblings include the historian Daniel Koerfer and the publisher Adrian Koerfer . Thomas Koerfer grew up in Bolligen . After graduating from the Free Gymnasium in Bern , he began studying economics and sociology in Berlin, Munich and St.Gallen in 1969 . After an internship with Alexander Kluge at the Ulm School of Design , he worked for the Swiss television DRS , directed and produced his first feature film The Death of the Flea Circus Director in 1973 with François Simon , who won the Josef von Sternberg Prize in Mannheim . This film already had an easier time abroad than in Switzerland, because it was in dialogue with written German, which is unpopular in German-speaking Switzerland and not in one of the German-speaking dialects.

When Koerfer was preparing his second film, Der Gehülfe , based on the novel of the same name by Robert Walser , there was at times the opportunity to translate Walser's High German back into Zurich, but Koerfer rejected this idea in view of the author's rank. The assistant with Paul Burian ran in Cannes 1976 in the Semaine internationale de la Critique as well as in the Forum of the international young film in Berlin.

With Glut (with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Katharina Thalbach ) Koerfer made a contribution in 1983 to the Swiss coming to terms with the past . In 1994 he founded the distribution company Frenetic Films , took over Quinnie Cinemas in his hometown of Bern in 2000 , tried his hand at the Zurich Schauspielhaus as a theater director and built up a collection of erotic art.

Filmography

literature

  • Anne Cuneo : La machine fantaisie. Galland, Vevey 1977
  • Marianne Karabelnik (Ed.): Stripped Bare : The Bare Body in Contemporary Art and Photography. Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1499-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical information at Wolfsberg Arts Forum 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 162 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wolfsberg.com