Thomas Plenert

Thomas Plenert (born February 1, 1951 in Nauen ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Plenert studied camera at the GDR Academy of Film and Television in Babelsberg and the State Film and Theater Academy in Łódź . He made a name for himself as a documentary cameraman during the GDR era and has been working with renowned directors such as Rainer Ackermann and Jürgen Böttcher since the late 1970s . In collaboration with Böttcher, documentaries such as Rangierer (1984), Short Visit to Hermann Glöckner (1985) and The Wall (1990), which won the FIPRESCI Prize in the forum of the Berlinale in 1991 , were made.

Plenert's collaboration with Volker Koepp , for whom he has been behind the camera in almost all films since 1988, is particularly fruitful . The award-winning documentaries by Koepp and Plenert include Die Wismut (1993), which received the German Film Critics' Prize for Best Documentary Film in 1994 , and Mr. Zwilling and Ms. Zuckermann (1998), who won the Grand Prize at the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in 1999 Nyon and was nominated for the German Film Prize as best documentary film. For Koepps Kalte Heimat , Plenert received the gold film for best camera in 1995 .

In addition to his documentary work, Plenert also occasionally makes feature films. For his first feature film, Die Beunruhigung , shot under Lothar Warneke's direction in black and white , Plenert won the award for best camera at the 2nd GDR National Feature Film Festival in 1982 . He later made films with directors such as Jan Schütte ( Fette Welt , 1998) and Bernd Böhlich ( You are not alone , 2007) as well as individual episodes of television series such as Polizeiruf 110 , Die Kommissarin , In the Name of the Law and Stubbe - From Case to Case . In 2006 Plenert won the Adolf Grimme Prize for the rbb - Police Call Kleine Frau (together with director Andreas Kleinert , screenwriter Stefan Rogall and the actresses Imogen Kogge and Johanna Gastdorf ) . In 2008 he received the DEFA Foundation Prize for the Promotion of German Film Art.

Since 1997, Plenert has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , Film and Media Art section.

Plenert is married to the editor Gudrun Steinbrück-Plenert .

Filmography

Documentaries

1977: Inti-Illimani - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1977/79: Floh de Cologne - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1977: Im Lohmgrund - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1978: Happiness in your shoes - football notes from Ragösen - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1978/1990: home
1979: Clowns - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1979: Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning - Director: Hannes Schönemann
1980: Three Gentlemen in Sorrento - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1980: All Games - All Nations - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1981: Metamorphoses: The woman at the clavichord - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1981: Metamorphoses: Potters Stier - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1981: Metamorphoses: Venus after Giorgione - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1982: A farmer and his wife - directed by Eduard Schreiber
1982: Three days in the saddle - Director: Eckhard Potraffke
1984: Sylvia
1984: Peace Driver
1984: Girlfriends - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1984: Rangierer - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1985: letters from the flag
1985: Short visit to Hermann Glöckner - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1986: The Kitchen - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1986: On the Family Shaft - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1987: I was once a child - directed by Thomas Plenert, Tamara Trampe
1987: Die Schmelzer - Director: Rainer Ackermann
1987: Rock 'n' Roll - Director: Jörg Foth
1988: Goodbye winter - Director: Helke Misselwitz
1988: In Georgia - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1988: Tierra del Fuego - Director: Volker Koepp
1988: The Cousins - directed by Rainer Ackermann, Christian Lehmann , Thomas Plenert
1989: Who is afraid of the black man (also co-script) - Director: Helke Misselwitz
1989: Märkische Ziegel - Direction: Volker Koepp
1989: Tuba wa Duo - Director: Jörg Foth
1989: Ach du jeh - A Hans Dampf und Wurst document - Director: Jörg Foth
1990: Märkische Heide, Brandenburg Sand - Director: Volker Koepp
1990: La Villette - Director: Gerd Kroske
1990: The Wall - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
1991: Locked Time - Director: Sybille Schönemann
1991: Märkische Gesellschaft mbH - Director: Volker Koepp
1991: Bulky waste - Director: Helke Misselwitz
1991: In Grüneberg - Director: Volker Koepp
1992: hodgepodge. An East Elbe cultural film - Director: Volker Koepp
1993: Time of the Gods. The sculptor Arno Breker - Director: Lutz Dammbeck
1993: ZAST - Director: Hannes Schönemann
1993: Nice lady, may I dare? - Director: Helke Misselwitz
1993: Die Wismut - Director: Volker Koepp
1995: LaBENDIG - Director: Hannes Schönemann
1995: Kalte Heimat - Direction: Volker Koepp
1996: My love, your love - Director: Helke Misselwitz
1996: Dürer's heirs - Director: Lutz Dammbeck
1997: The 7th year - views on the state of the nation (3 segments) - directed by Helke Misselwitz, Volker Koepp, Pepe Danquart
1998: Das Meisterspiel - Director: Lutz Dammbeck
1999: Julias Wahn - Director: Hannes Schönemann
1999: Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann - Director: Volker Koepp
2000: Heimspiel - Director: Pepe Danquart
2000: The Queen. Marianne Hoppe - Director: Werner Schroeter
1996/2001: Berlin Babylon - Director: Hubertus Siegert
2001: Curonian Spit - Director: Volker Koepp
2001: Outdoor concert - Director: Jürgen Böttcher
2001: Fremde Oder - Director: Helke Misselwitz
2002: Uckermark - Director: Volker Koepp
2004: Frankfurter Tor - Director: Volker Koepp
2004: Das Netz - Director: Lutz Dammbeck
2004: This year in Chernivtsi - Director: Volker Koepp
2005: Pommerland - Director: Volker Koepp
2005: Schattenland - Journey to Masuria - Director: Volker Koepp
2007: Elderflower - Director: Volker Koepp
2007: Sons - Director: Volker Koepp
2008: Memelland - Director: Volker Koepp
2009: 24h Berlin - A day in the life (segment of the large bakery Kamps / pubs in Pankow ) - Director: Volker Koepp
2009: Sehnsucht Berlin - Director: Peter Zach
2009: Berlin - Stettin - Director: Volker Koepp
2012: Gold Rush - The History of the Treuhand - Producer: Thomas Kufus