Ulrich Weiß (director)
Ulrich Weiß (born April 2, 1942 in Wernigerode ) is a German film director and screenwriter .
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He attended elementary school from 1948 to 1956, and from 1956 to 1960 the extended secondary school in Klingenthal . From 1960 to 1963 he was trained as a photographer in Limbach-Oberfrohna . In 1963/64 he worked as a company photographer at SDAG Wismut in Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Chemnitz ).
In 1964 he became a camera assistant for the German television broadcasting company in the GDR . From 1965 to 1968 he studied at the University of Film and Television Potsdam, first specializing in camera, then directing and graduated here in 1970. In 1971, Weiß became a director at the DEFA studio for short films in the Effekt group led by Karl Gass . Among other things, he made a film about the censorship of Eisenstein's armored cruiser Potemkin in the Weimar Republic .
He has been a guest director since 1976 and since 1982 has been employed by DEFA Studio for feature films. Tambari, based on the children's book by Benno Pludra , was his feature film debut, and he directed an Indian film with Blauvogel . Your unknown brother from 1982 was based on the novel of the same name by Willi Bredel . Although it received recognition at the GDR National Feature Film Festival "for the director's efforts to find original means of expression", this film received not only acclaim but also severe criticism.
The following film, Olle Henry , according to Weiß, a "love film, a boxing film, a post-war film that is an anti-war film, the attempt at a modern interpretation of the subject of man and woman, the relationship between the sexes" (U. Weiß, Filmspiegel , No. 12 , 1983) met with criticism from the studio management. After that, all of his submitted projects were rejected. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Weiss, who temporarily taught at the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television , was able to make another feature film with Miraculi in 1992 , alongside a few documentaries and short films.
In September 2010 Erika Richter curated a retrospective with films by Ulrich Weiß for the Berlin Arsenal.
Filmography
- 1969: order for tomorrow
- 1972: My guns weren't broken - just broke my heart
- 1972: Goodbye assembly - a brigadier tells
- 1972: For the eighth time, part 6.
- 1975: Potemkin free
- 1977: Tambari
- 1979: Blue Bird
- 1979: Addio, piccola mia (actors only)
- 1982: Your unknown brother
- 1983: Olle Henry
- 1984: The Arctic Ocean is calling (actors only)
- 1992: Miraculi
- 1992: detour
- 1993: Sternburg - beer fight in the east
- 1994: The Holy Family
Awards
- 1969: Artur-Becker-Medal in silver for order for tomorrow in the collective
- 1980: UNICEF Prize at the International Film Festival for Children and Youth Films in Gijón
- 1982: Recognition at the GDR National Feature Film Festival for your unknown brother
- 1985: Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken: Special Prize from the Lord Mayor for Olle Henry
literature
- Ralf Schenk: White, Ulrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Ulrich Weiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulrich Weiß at filmportal.de
- Biography on defa-stiftung.de
- Curation text of the retrospective by Erika Richter 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wernigerode |