Uwe Schrader (director)

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Uwe Schrader (born April 28, 1954 in Groß Bülten ) is a German film director , film producer and screenwriter . He was also a professor of artistic film at the Hildesheim University Foundation . He lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

life and work

Uwe Schrader is one of the “most radical and honest filmmakers in Germany”, as Andreas Kilb puts it in ZEIT, and Wim Wenders places him in the tradition of Rainer Werner Fassbinder , if he does not hesitate, “as one of the few, if not as to name the only one who carried the artistic continuity of German cinema from the 1970s into the 1990s ”. Schrader's films are known for their unreserved view of an unadorned reality. At the same time, "his approach is physically direct, rough, at times repellent and free of melancholy," as Peter Körte writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau.

Schrader studies visual communication in Hamburg before going to the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) to study film . His first film, Work for the Last Rest , is a documentary that describes the work with death in the funeral home and crematorium without comment. It follows with two the thematization of sexuality in old age. Before shooting Sierra Leone in 1986 , he made another documentary film that also revolves around a taboo subject and closes the documentary circle of death, sexuality and violence. Schrader accompanied Berlin police officers on patrol for No Murder, No Manslaughter .

During his studies in Berlin, which he completed in 1980, Schrader already worked in numerous film and television productions as well as in advertising as an assistant, production manager and dubbing director. Notable activities during this time are his work as assistant and second cameraman with Klaus Michael Grübers Winterreise in the Olympic Stadium or later as assistant director to Peter Fleischmann for Frevel (1981/82). His work as a cameraman for documentaries takes him to Africa and South America, among others.

Schrader draws attention to himself early on with his unmistakable style. His short film Phantom was honored with the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1979. His main work consists of his 1983–1992 feature film trilogy, which continues to stick to the documentary tone of his early work when it reveals the cryptic world of the protagonists. With Kanakerbraut , financed from the remaining money of 20,000 DM from his studies, he achieved his international breakthrough with the nomination for Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Schrader also received the German Film Prize for his directorial work. Sierra Leone , the second part of the trilogy, again shot on original locations, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1987. In Mau Mau , the viewer is led into the life of the red light district.

In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Schrader was represented as a member of various committees, for example at the film funding of the NDR , the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW) or the selection committee for project film funding of the BKM .

His teaching activity began in 1988/89 with teaching assignments at the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF), led through directing workshops at the Goethe Institutes in Rome, Milan and Palermo before he became a lecturer at the DFFB in 1994. In the same year he was appointed professor for the film class in the fine arts department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. From 2003 to 2018 he taught as a professor for artistic film at the Hildesheim University Foundation.

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SURNAME Schrader, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and television director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Bülten