Thomas Struck

Thomas Struck (born January 18, 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German filmmaker .

He studied psychology with Hellmuth Costard and was a member of the film and television working group at the University of Hamburg (AKFF). Struck belonged to the Hamburg filmmaker group Der Grüne Hase and was with Hellmuth Costard, Klaus Wyborny , Werner Nekes , Helmut Herbst , Werner Grassmann , Dore O. and other founders of the Hamburg Filmmaker Cooperative .

In 1966 Struck began his professional film work as a freelance director for NDR television and shot a. a. Films about the Beatles , Twiggy , Richard Lester and the Spencer Davis Group . In 1968 Struck became known for his film The Warm Point , which won the 1st Hamburg Film Show. Together with Herman Prigann and Hans Meister, Struck was the founder of the alternative drug therapy group Release in Hamburg, which ran therapy centers in Otterndorf and Velgen.

Struck began making films again in 1981, including the animation films Hearts , Stars , Lint, drawn directly on 35 mm film , and the foil animation film The Little Fart (approx. 10 minutes each). In 1986 he founded the European Low Budget Film Forum with Dieter Kosslick and directed the cinema on the Alster .

In the 1990s, Struck was co-producer and co-author (with Uli Waller) of the music theater piece Bluebeard's Orchestra with Ulrich Tukur . Further documentaries followed: A wine year with Stuart Pigott about Riesling on the Moselle and Walk Don't Walk with the musician Don Byron and the fetish expert Dian Hanson about the legs of New Yorkers. 2002 ended Struck the film liquid , which documents his journey by bicycle on the River Rhine from Rotterdam to the Rhine source at the St. Gotthard.

From 2003 to 2007 Struck was Talent Manager of the Berlinale Talent Campus , and since then he has been head of the "Culinary Cinema" section initiated by Dieter Kosslick , Johannes Bösiger and himself.

Web links

Thomas Struck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
"Filmmaking in West Germany, 1968" (Goethe-Institut)
Internet presence of Thomas Struck

Individual evidence

↑ During this time the term filmmaker was Germanized from English. The -e- in Film-e-macher only became a colloquial language in the course of the 1970s and comes from the then Munich group of young filmmakers.

personal data
SURNAME	Struck, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] During this time the term filmmaker was Germanized from English. The -e- in Film-e-macher only became a colloquial language in the course of the 1970s and comes from the then Munich group of young filmmakers.