Thomas Schamoni
Thomas Schamoni (born August 13, 1936 in Berlin , † September 26, 2014 in Munich ) was a German film director and screenwriter .
biography
Schamoni was born into a film family. His father Victor Schamoni was a director and film scholar, his mother Maria a scriptwriter. After their father died in the war, Thomas and his three brothers Ulrich , Victor and Peter initially lived with their mother in Werl . The family later moved to Münster .
After graduating from high school, Schamoni studied sculpture and graphics from 1955 to 1958. He also wrote his first film reviews. From 1959 to 1960 he trained as a camera at Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1961 he became an editorial assistant at WDR . He has been making his own films since 1962.
In 1968 Schamoni received the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize for the television documentary The Poet and His City: Wilhelm Faulkner and Jefferson together with Klaus Simon .
For his debut feature film, A Great Gray-Blue Bird , he received the Gold Film Ribbon in 1970 as the best young director.
Schamoni was the co-founder and driving force behind the film publishing house founded in 1971 by the authors . For the first three years, the publisher's office was in his apartment in Munich.
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: Children's games (short film)
- 1963: Views of a Stranger (TV movie)
- 1965: Wojna i mir (TV documentary)
- 1966: Charly May (short documentation)
- 1966: The Letter (actor, director: Vlado Kristl )
- 1967: The poet and his city: Wilhelm Faulkner and Jefferson (TV documentary)
- 1967: An air journey, an adventure, something for connoisseurs (feature film together with Hans Noever )
- 1969: Love is colder than death (production, director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder )
- 1970: A large gray-blue bird
- 1971: How did Roland S. die (actor, director: Hark Bohm )
- 1972: The goalie's fear at the penalty kick (production, direction Wim Wenders )
- 1972: The Iceberg of Providence (TV documentary feature film)
- 1973: The Scarlet Letter (Production, Direction Wim Wenders)
- 1974: Bannister has disappeared (narrator, director Hans Noever)
- 1974: Output (screenplay, director: Michael Fengler )
Web links
- Official website
- Thomas Schamoni at filmportal.de
- Thomas Schamoni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Filmakademie List of the 1970 award winners ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Film publishing house of the authors (PDF; 2.1 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schamoni, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 2014 |
| Place of death | Munich |