Uwe Frießner

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Uwe Frießner (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German director and screenwriter .

Live and act

From 1962 to 1966, Uwe Frießner studied geology , philosophy and German in Berlin and Hamburg . In 1969 he worked as a deep sea fisherman, followed by two years as a roofer. From 1972 to 1975 Frießner studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In the following years he directed several short films.

With his feature film debut, the youth drama The End of the Rainbow , shot with amateur actors in the winter of 1979 , with which he graduated from the dffb, he won numerous awards. In 1980 the film received the silver ribbon , and the main actor Thomas Kufahl even received the gold ribbon . In addition, Frießner won the German Film Critics' Prize with the film and was awarded at the Max Ophüls Festival .

After his next movie Baby , Frießner directed his first television film, Der Pinder . For him, Frießner (director), Bernhard Pfletschinger (script based on Andreas Blechner's autobiographical novel of the same name) and Andreas Buttler (leading actor) received the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver in the category "television play" in 1987 . In his film review in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Helmut Schödel celebrated the director as a “master of the milieu film”: “Frießner's films told of the wonderful life energy of losers and of how little malice is often behind petty crime and prostitution among young people. Frießner's films are crooked tragedies. ”He enthused:“ Frießner succeeds like no other in recording the jargon of social losers in his scripts in a very unobtrusive way. In Frießner's dialogues, subculture speech loses nothing of its spontaneity. No one succeeds like Frießner in using amateur actors to lead the professional concoction ad absurdum. He lets them show experiences of which the others do not even suspect. "

In 1996 Frießner received the Adolf Grimme Prize for Abgefahren (together with Susanne Bormann ).

The film historian and journalist Jan Gympel wrote about the series he curated with films by Uwe Frießner at the Zeughauskino in Berlin in April 2019: “Although his TV films and series were mostly ambitious and received two Adolf Grimme Awards, he became one Example of how a director and screenwriter is less and less noticed by the professional public when he works exclusively for television. [...] Since his debut, Frießner, who was also active in youth work, has been a specialist in teens and twenties with social and psychological problems. In truth, there were also different types of projects that failed for various reasons - some at a very advanced stage. What they all had in common was Frießner's favorite topic: being guiltlessly guilty. "

Since the late 1980s Frießner worked for television and staged episodes of television series such as Wolkenstein , Die Feuerengel and Doppelter Einsatz .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1979: The end of the rainbow (also book)
  • 1979: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (TV series, one episode)
  • 1984: Baby (also book)
  • 1986: The Pusher (TV movie)
  • 1989: Molle with Korn (TV series, also book)
  • 1993: When Angels Travel (TV series)
  • 1994: Hatred in the Head (TV film, also book)
  • 1994: Abgefahren (TV film, also book)
  • 1996: Wolkenstein (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1997: The Angels of Fire (TV series, three episodes)
  • 2000–2001: Double use (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2001: Crash into the death zone ( Check-in to Disaster , TV movie)
  • 2004: Under Suspicion (TV series, episode)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Filminstitut: Das Ende des Regenbogen Archived copy ( Memento from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on May 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Helmut Schödel: TV review: Schiefe Tragödien . In: The time . Hamburg November 7, 1986 ( zeit.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ German Historical Museum: From the television archive - Director: Uwe Frießner. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frießner, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin