Uwe Brandner

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Uwe Brandner (born May 23, 1941 in Reichenberg ; † July 30, 2018 in Freising ) was a German film director , screenwriter , film producer , film composer , actor and writer .

Life

Brandner spent his first years with his family in Asch in what was then Reichsgau Sudetenland . His father was a Sudeten German major general of the police, SS brigade leader and reserve officer in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . He died in a partisan attack in Croatia in 1944 .

After the Second World War , the family fled to the West and came to Bayreuth after staying in camps . There Brandner attended secondary school and played clarinet , tenor saxophone and flute in a jazz band . His great role model was saxophonist Charlie Parker , hence his nickname in high school "Charlie". He earned money as a freelancer for the local daily Fränkische Presse and made his first short films, at least one of which was shown in the “Bali” cinema on Richard-Wagner-Straße .

After graduating from high school , Brandner initially worked as a journalist and jazz musician . In 1962 he started in Munich a study of German literature , theater studies and philosophy , which he finished without a degree. He served in the Bundeswehr as a clarinetist in the music corps in Kassel . At the beginning of the 1960s he formed the Hofer “New Jazz Group” with Heinz Badewitz and Werner Weinelt , although he was already living in Munich-Schwabing . From 1963 he made short films in Munich with bathing joke. Since it was difficult to find a cinema to show their films, they relocated the film show thanks to the contacts they still had with Hof cinema operators in Baden's hometown. In 1967 a Hof short film festival took place for the first time.

In 1962 and 1964 Brandner worked on the short films Herakles and Spiel im Sand by Werner Herzog , for which he wrote the music. This was followed by other short films. The first feature film was made in 1971 with I love you, I'll kill you with Rolf Becker in the leading role . Uwe Brandner worked here as a producer, screenwriter, director and composer. Several TV productions followed and in 1977 the feature film Halbe-Halbe with Hans Peter Hallwachs , Bernd Tauber and Ivan Desny . Brandner wrote the script and directed the film . In 1988 he was also seen as an actor in the international four-part television series Hemingway by Bernhard Sinkel .

In 1967 Uwe Brandner was a participant in the last meeting of Group 47 in Waischenfeld , Upper Franconia , where he read Innerungen from his as yet unpublished first novel . With the “adventure, love, crime, future u. Factual novel “ Innerungen , whose cover was designed by Heinz Edelmann , began his career as a writer in 1968. In 1969 and 1971 the works Drei Uhr Angst and Mutanten-Milieu followed .

Brandner was one of the initiators of the Hof International Film Festival . In 1971 he founded a. a. with Hark Bohm , Wim Wenders , Volker Vogeler and Hans W. Geissendörfer the film distribution company Filmverlag of the authors . In 1991 he received the Hof Film Prize on the occasion of the 25th Hof Film Festival and on December 8, 2012 the Friedrich Baur Prize for Film and Media from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In 2008 Uwe Brandner appeared in the documentary Gegenenschuss - Aufbruch der Filemacher . The film premiered on February 11, 2008 in the section "Berlinale Special" premiere at the Berlinale 2008 .

Brandner was briefly married in Munich and had an adopted son who died at the age of 14. He was also in a relationship with the art historian Christa Maar and the translator Verena Reichel . Brandner was last seen in public in 2017 at the 50th anniversary of Group 47 in Waischenfeld. He died of a stroke at the age of 77 in late July 2018 .

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1969: The Poet and His City (TV film) - FM Dostoyevsky and Petersburg - Journey into a fiction
  • 1969: blinker
  • 1971: I love you, I'll kill you
  • 1973: Under the Sign of the Cold (TV movie)
  • 1973: Heads or Tails (TV movie)
  • 1977: Half-Half

script

  • 1969: blinker
  • 1970: A large gray-blue bird
  • 1971: I love you, I'll kill you
  • 1973: Under the Sign of the Cold (TV movie)
  • 1973: Heads or Tails (TV movie)
  • 1977: Half-Half

composer

  • 1962: Heracles
  • 1964: Playing in the sand
  • 1971: I love you, I'll kill you

actor

  • 1968: emigration
  • 1988: Hemingway (TV series)
  • 2008: reverse shot - departure of the filmmakers

producer

  • 1971: I love you, I'll kill you
  • 1973: Heads or Tails (TV movie)

Works (selection)

published by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich

  • 1968: memories
  • 1970: Three o'clock fear
  • 1971: Mutant milieu

literature

  • Herbert Holba, Günter Knorr, Peter Spiegel: Reclams German Film Lexicon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-010330-4 , pp. 45-46.
  • Jürgen Heizmann: "I love you, I'll kill you." In: Heimatfilm international . Edited by Jürgen Heizmann. Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-019396-9 , pp. 54-61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Director Uwe Brandner is dead , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on August 1, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g filmmaker, author and jazz musician in: Nordbayerischer Kurier, October 9, 2018, p. 13.
  3. ^ German film from today and here In: Der Spiegel 38/1977, on: Spiegel Online (Note: In the report, the title is still given with butterflies in the stomach ); accessed on October 20, 2016
  4. ↑ This image of a man makes me afraid In: Der Spiegel 47/1987 on Spiegel Online ; Retrieved May 15, 2013
  5. ↑ New in Germany In: Der Spiegel 2/1968 on Spiegel Online ; Retrieved June 29, 2013
  6. ^ Film Prize of the City of Hof. List of laureates on hofer-filmtage.com; accessed on March 15, 2013
  7. ↑ Friedrich Baur Prize 2012 to Benno Hurt. Literaturportal Bayern, November 6, 2012; accessed on March 15, 2013
  8. ↑ Membership directory on Pen Center Germany online; Retrieved April 17, 2013
  9. ↑ Official program Berlinale 2008 (PDF; 65 kB) on page 5; Retrieved January 25, 2011
  10. ^ Website of the Kinowelt Filmproduktion ; Retrieved January 24, 2011
  11. ↑ Gegenenschuss - Awakening of the Filmmakers ( Memento from January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on arte.tv; Retrieved January 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Brandner, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter, film producer, film composer, actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2018
Place of death Freising