Thomas Mauch
Thomas Mauch (born April 4, 1937 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German cameraman , screenwriter , film director and producer .
Life
The son of the factory director Wilhelm Mauch and his wife Erika, née Plappert, attended the Waldorf School and trained as a photographer from 1954. From 1957 he worked in Munich as a trainee at the Society for Visual Films, which specialized in industrial and documentary films.
In Munich he met the director Edgar Reitz , as his assistant he made documentary films from 1959 to 1963. In 1963 he became a freelance cameraman and lecturer at the Institute for Film Design at the Ulm School of Design . He was the second cameraman alongside Reitz for the early classic of the New German Film Farewell to Yesterday . From 1967 he worked mainly with Werner Herzog .
In addition to his camerawork and teaching work, Mauch also worked as a screenwriter and director, mostly for the ZDF series Das kleine Fernsehspiel . In 1987 he directed his first film with Adrian und die Römer as co-director alongside Klaus Bueb.
Mauch received the Federal Film Prize three times for his camera work : 1973 for Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes by Werner Herzog, 1979 for Neapolitan Siblings by Werner Schroeter and 1989 for Waller's Last Walk by Christian Wagner . In 2003 he was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy . For his life's work he received the Marburg Camera Prize 2019. Although Mauch was also involved in the Werner Herzog film Cobra Verde from 1987, he left the project during the filming due to an ongoing conflict with actor Klaus Kinski , who was famous for his outbursts of anger which is why director Werner Herzog had to replace him with the Czech cameraman Viktor Růžička .
A daughter comes from his relationship with the director Helma Sanders-Brahms , and a son comes from his liaison with Pia Frankenberg . Later the producer Gabriele Röthemeyer became his life partner.
Thomas Mauch lives in Berlin- Kreuzberg.
Filmography
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Awards
- 1973: Film tape in gold (camera) for Aguirre, the wrath of God
- 1976: Mannheim Film Festival : Golden Ducat for criminal protocol for everyone ...
- 1979: Gold film tape (camera) for Neapolitan siblings
- 1980: Berlin International Film Festival : Golden Bear for Palermo or Wolfsburg
- 1989: Gold film tape (camera) for Waller's last course
- 1991: Hessian Film Prize : Camera Prize for Invisible Days
- 2019: Marburg Camera Prize for his life's work
Web links
- Thomas Mauch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thomas Mauch at filmportal.de
- “The eye of young German film” , portrait of Thomas Mauch in Der Tagesspiegel on February 2, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marburg Camera Prize 2019 goes to Thomas Mauch , University of Marburg November 20, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mauch, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman, screenwriter, film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidenheim an der Brenz |