Urs Frey (documentary filmmaker, 1960)

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Urs Frey Lehmann (born November 25, 1960 in Samedan , Graubünden ; † June 17, 2008 there ) was a Swiss documentary filmmaker .

Life

After training as a primary school teacher , Urs Frey worked as a museum educator and exhibition designer at the Bündner Naturmuseum in Chur . He also worked as a journalist. He later studied cultural geography in Bern . After graduating in 1994, he taught art at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz , worked as a freelance scientist and, from 1998, as a freelance filmmaker .

As a filmmaker he mainly worked for Televisiun Rumantscha . "He was interested in film portraits of extraordinary people, but also in cultural-historical and ethnographic topics." ( Bündner Tagblatt ) For his Rhaeto-Romanic and Italian films, he was repeatedly awarded at the Festival della Lessinia in Bosco Chiesanuova near Verona  .

Urs Frey lived with his wife and son in Soglio , later in Guarda . He died on June 17, 2008.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: L'è uscìa , portrait of a Bergell mountain farmer
  • 2002: Aria - Ils objects sgulants da Dumeng Secchi
  • 2002: La scola da Soi - la scuola da Soglio
  • 2004: Chaus e muntognas
  • 2005: Revolution

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bündner filmmaker Urs Frey has died. (PDF) In: Bündner Tagblatt. June 23, 2008, p. 20 , archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Swiss filmmaker wins in Verona. In: Klein Report. September 7, 2004, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Engadin filmmaker Urs Frey has died. In: Klein Report. June 24, 2008, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Obituary. In: Engadiner Post. June 21, 2008, p. 15 , accessed March 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Urs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey Lehmann, Urs (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan , Graubünden
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2008
Place of death Samedan , Graubünden