Ulrich Leinweber

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Ulrich Leinweber (born June 20, 1953 in Kassel ) is a German documentary filmmaker and film producer .

Life

After graduating from the Friedrich List School in his hometown , he refused military service and performed his peace service in the Stutthof Concentration Camp Memorial near Danzig and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Memorial in Oświęcim as part of the Action Reconciliation Peace Service . During this time a first collaboration took place with Christoph Heubner and Volker von Törne (editor of “Situation Report”, poems and songs 1976). He completed his studies in German and visual communication at the University of Kassel . The first documentary films with comments by Christoph Heubner and Volker von Törne followed parallel to my studies.

  • The stations of Lore Diener (life story about Lore Diener , survivor of Auschwitz, 1974)
  • Heroes (report on a meeting of the order community of knight cross bearers, 1975)
  • Excursion to Auschwitz (German tourists visiting the concentration camp memorial, 1976).
  • Nazis, do they still exist? (Documentation on old and new right-wing extremists in the Federal Republic of 1975/76)

Television productions

Since 1978 he has worked as a commissioned producer and author for the ZDF youth magazine Direkt , and from 1982 for the ZDF youth magazine Schüler-Express . In 1988 he worked with the presenter Sabine Sauer as an author and commissioned producer for the ZDF VIP magazine Showfenster , before he worked as an author and producer of articles for the tabloid magazine Explosiv at RTL Germany, under the direction of Barbara Eligmann , from 1992 to 1994 .

Documentaries

The thematic focus of the free film work is the documentation of phenomena of violence. Examples are the films They are just like that - Nordkurve and Jung und Böse . In cooperation with the State Center for Civic Education in North Rhine-Westphalia , which has been lending it to schools and educational institutions since 1978, documentaries on key qualifications, values ​​and religions have been produced since 1992. The multimedia projects Blauer Stuhl 1 and Blauer Stuhl 2 followed in 2005 and 2007.

Multimedia projects on the Internet

Since 2005 integration of documentary film clips in interactive internet platforms:

  • Experience-in-work and my job profile: employment biographies for the placement of job seekers
  • The Blue Chair: documentary images of opinions and moods on values, religions and Europe
  • Seasons poems : poetry and culture project for elementary school children

Filmography (selection)

  • 1974: The stations of the Lore Diener - portrait of a German Auschwitz survivor, together with Christoph Heubner and Christine Fischer-Defoy
  • 1975: Heroes - Documentation about a meeting of knight cross bearers
  • 1975/1976: Nazis, do they still exist - Documentation about actions by new and old right-wing extremists
  • 1976: Trip to Auschwitz - German tourists at the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial, together with Volker von Törne and Christoph Heubner
  • 1977: Reichstag, I have no regrets - portrait of right-wing extremist Manfred Roeder
  • 1979: There are always lucky bags - lucky bags with Wehrmacht and Nazi pictures
  • 1980: Peepshow, a limited liability company
  • 1982: No country in sight - young right-wing extremists in self-testimonies
  • 1982: They are just like that - right turn - hooligans of FC Schalke 04 and the Borussen front
  • 1989: SOS - Ghosts from Beyond Portraits of Esoteric People and Spirit Healers
  • 1991: The women's concentration camp at the supermarket - The supermarket project on the site of the former Ravensbrück women's concentration camp
  • 1993: Young and Evil - The Pleasure of Violence
  • 1994:! Family happiness? Family between dream and nightmare
  • 1997: Once Nazis, Always Nazis- What happens to young neo-Nazis when they grow up
  • 2001: Virtues and key social qualifications in the job
  • 2001: To be afraid, to be afraid - violence and fear in the streets and squares
  • 2002: Baldness, brands and tattoos - Right youth cult in their symbols
  • 2004: Yesterday's Nazis, Today's Net - How Neo-Nazis Use the Internet
  • 2005: Russian. German. Country - The history of the integration of Russian Germans
  • 2005: The Blue Chair - Future - How young people 2005 see 2010 - Agenda 20.10
  • 2007: The Blue Chair values, religions, Europe

Awards

  • Silver Dragon, Cracow International Short Film Festival for "Heroes" 1977
  • Special prize, International Short Film Festival Krakow for "Reichstag - I have no regrets" 1978
  • Special prize at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film for "There are always goodies" 1978
  • Honorary diploma from the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival for “Right curve - they are just like that” 1983
  • Prix ​​Jeunesse for "Art Nouveau" ZDF-Jugendmagazin-Direkt 1982
  • Commenius-EduMedia-Siegel for “The Blue Chair2, Europe, Values, Religion” 2007

literature

  • Documentarists of the world self-testimonials
  • Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Leinweber, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel