Thomas Mitscherlich
Thomas Mitscherlich ( December 11, 1942 in Heidelberg - March 18, 1998 in Oberstein , Westallgäu ) was a German film director , screenwriter and writer .
biography
Mitscherlich was born in Heidelberg in 1942 as the son of Alexander Mitscherlich and his second wife Georgia Wiedemann.
Mitscherlich has worked as an independent film director and screenwriter since the early 1970s. His oeuvre consists of documentary, socially engaged and political films. He was one of the directors of the "Bremer Institut Film Fernsehen", which also produced Mitscherlich's most famous and last documentary film, Reisen ins Leben ( 1996).
Mitscherlich died in 1998 at the age of 55 as a result of a heart attack.
Filmography
- 1972: The fight for 11% (script and direction)
- 1976: The Indecent Profit (script and direction)
- 1978: ... only worth half (script and direction)
- 1979: A trade union from within (director, with Günther Hörmann)
- 1984: The downfall of AG Weser (director, with G. Hörmann and Detlef Saurin)
- 1984: father and son (script, direction and participation)
- 1986: Fall through dreams. André Hellers fire pictures (director, m. Hörmann / Saurin)
- 1987: Switching off (script, director, producer)
- 1990: The Photographer (script and direction with Franz Winzentsen ; commentary) - TV -
- 1992: The Bunker (book, director) - TV -
- 1993: The Denouncer (director) - in the competition at the Berlinale 1993
- 1996: Journeys in Life (script, direction, interviews, speaker)
literature
- Barbara Johr with Susanne Benöhr and Thomas Mitscherlich: Traveling into life. Living on after a childhood in Auschwitz. Donat Verlag, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931737-07-1 . (Texts, inter alia, on and by Jehuda Bacon , Gerhard Durlacher , Ruth Klüger , Hans Keilson ).
- Karin Dehnbostel (Hrsg.): Images - medium of remembering. Filmmaker Thomas Mitscherlich's view of our past. Schüren, Marburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89472-327-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Mitscherlich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Mitscherlich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thomas Mitscherlich at filmportal.de
proof
- ↑ Text on "TRAVELING INTO LIFE - ON LIVING AFTER A CHILDHOOD IN AUSCHWITZ" on filmzentrale.com.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitscherlich, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1998 |
| Place of death | Oberstein , West Allgäu |