Trevor Peters

Trevor Peters (* 1943 in New Zealand ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Trevor Peters grew up in New Zealand , studied philosophy and worked as a lecturer at Victoria University in Wellington . In 1967 he moved to London and worked as a director and editor in the education and documentary sector for the British television broadcaster BBC . In 1973 Trevor Peters moved to Hamburg where he lives as a filmmaker and lecturer and works for German television. He taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar and directed the FilmKunstFest in Schwerin. In his documentaries, Trevor Peters devoted himself primarily to the topics of East Germany . He himself calls his cinematic style stories from life

In 2006 Trevor Peters experienced a performance of the autobiographical dance theater piece Zeit - dance since 1927 by Heike Hennig & Co at the Leipzig Opera . In the dance theater, the former members of the Leipzig Ballet Ursula Cain , Christa Franze , Siegfried Prölß and Horst Dittmann tell their life stories. Trevor Peters was so enthusiastic about the dance theater of the generations by Leipzig director and choreographer Heike Hennig that he immediately began preparing for his film and had the last performance of the 2006 season recorded. After the financing was secured, the film production on behalf of ZDF and ARTE was completed in 2007 . At the premiere of the dance film under the title Tanz mit der Zeit in the largest cinema in Leipzig, the film celebrated an overwhelming success with the public, so that after the cinema screening during the 50th DOK Leipzig, a cinema distributor announced the cinema and DVD exploitation.

In 2008, the theatrical release in the Leipzig Opera was accompanied by reports including the topics of the day . The book by the author Marion Appelt was published under the title of the same name in 2008 with a foreword by Renate Schmidt and numerous dance photos by Siegfried Prölß and Friedrich U. Minkus.

As a feature film, Tanz mit der Zeit was shown at international festivals, with the support of the Ballet British Columbia for the North American premiere as Dancing with Time 2008 in Vancouver . On December 12, 2009, the film was first broadcast on European television under the French title Danse avec le temps .

The documentary Dance with Time is Trevor Peter's most successful film.

Filmography

• 1978/1987/1998: Altenwerder (long-term observation)
• 1980: The second farewell (1st invitation from Germany , 2nd guest in the hometown (as one-piece 1981))
• 1983: No exercise
• 1984: turning, not turning
• 1984: The Prisoner
• 1990–1992: The Capitol, at some point it will be over
• 1994: The children of Wendorf
• 1995: The Raisin Mountain
• 1998: After the Ice Age
• 1998: Farewell to Altenwerder - a village gives way to the port
• 2001: Close to Poland, but far away
• 2005: Giving time a face
• 2007: Dance with the times
• 2017: The Son (screenplay; TV film, fictional)

Literature / DVD

• Marion Appelt: Dance with the times . Leipzig, Plöttner Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-938442-45-6
• Trevor Peters: Tanz mit der Zeit , Berlin, Good Movies / Ventura, Indigo, DVD 926328

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1. ↑ Trevor Peters in the Goethe-Institut Norway ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ Dance with the times in the topics of the day
3. ↑ Dance with Time with Heike Hennig & Co
4. ↑ Dancing with Time North American Premiere on VIFF ( Memento October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ARTE.TV ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Trevor Peters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heike Hennig & Co official homepage
• OPER Leipzig unplugged with schedule, official homepage