Walter Rudel
Walter Rüdel (born March 22, 1931 in Weilbach ) is a German television journalist , television producer and book author .
Life
After his training as a publishing bookseller , Walter Rüdel first ran a bookstore in Miltenberg and began producing travel postcards and publishing the travel guide Der Main, where it is most beautiful by Rudolf Vierengel (with a foreword by Sven Hedin ) in his own publishing house in 1952 .
Inspired by this publishing activity, he passed the special maturity examination in 1957 and began studying theater and newspaper studies , art history and literary history at the University of Munich .
Television journalist
In 1963 Walter Rüdel began to work as a television journalist for the SDR in Stuttgart. As an author and director, he made several hundred short reports, reports and documentaries for the broadcasters of the ARD and the ZDF . He worked as a freelancer for “Studio 3”, “Spectrum”, Report Munich and ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente . Walter Rüdel shot television features at home and abroad about established cultural workers, such as the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius , as well as about artists who were then part of the German and European avant-garde, such as Nicolas Schöffer . Political and historical reports, such as the documentary "War against War" about the failed efforts of the European left to prevent the First World War, formed a further focus of his work.
Walter Rüdel was a journalistic companion of the Stuttgart Ballet under General Director Walter Erich Schäfer , about whom he shot the 1971 report "Walter Erich Schäfer or the theater acts of a squire from Lower Bavaria". He filmed the Stuttgart Ballet, directed by John Cranko , when the ensemble performed abroad and shot the documentary “John Cranko - Stations of a Great Choreographer” for ZDF in 1977.
Walter Rüdel received the Bremen TV Prize in 1974 for the report “Beatings” . A year later he received a federal film award from the Filmförderungsanstalt for the documentary film "The remarkable life of Marieluise Fleißer from Ingolstadt" (made in 1971). The documentary is based on a film interview with Marieluise Fleißer about her work as a writer.
Walter Rüdel liked to portray controversial personalities of the intellectual life in his eighteen years of television activity, for example the philosopher Martin Heidegger in the television portrait "Martin Heidegger - Thinking on the move", which he realized together with Richard Wisser .
Walter Rüdel also devoted himself to the similarly controversial Pour-le-Mérite bearer, free thinker and writer Ernst Jünger in 1977 with a television portrait “I don't contradict myself”. In several interviews in Liberia, Ernst Jünger spoke about his works and the political events of his time.
TV producer and author
For countries - people - adventure , Walter Rüdel, as co-owner of the Neske production, produced the six-part documentary series “Adventure South America” (for SWF and WDR ). The series had the main themes: "El Dorado remained undiscovered" (the gold rush of the conquists), "Diamond hunters in Indian country" (the hard reality of diamond mining in South America ), "The treasure of the Strait of Magellan" (the oil deposits in Tierra del Fuego ), "Freedom in Sattel ”(the cattle farms in Mato Grosso in Brazil ),“ Amazon upwards ”(the search for the last indigenous peoples on the Amazon ) and“ The survivors and doomed ”(Indians in Chile ).
In 1979 Walter Rüdel co-produced another documentary series for “Countries - People - Adventure” with “Adventure Africa”. Parallel to the five episodes (“Advance into the Unknown”, “Sails Southward”, “The Continent of Kings”, “Black Sons of the Sun”, “Gods, Spirits and Demons”) for the series, he shot the detailed documentary “Das Fest of the dead king - funeral rites in the Kingdom of Bafut / Cameroon ”on the funeral ceremonies of Achirimbi II , Fon (king) of the Bafut people in the grasslands of Cameroon. In the same year Walter Rüdel wrote the book Adventure Africa , which appeared parallel to the broadcast of the television documentary of the same name.
Journalistic development work
From 1981 to 1997 Walter Rüdel was the representative and project manager of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Jordan , the West Bank and Lebanon with a focus on journalistic development work and environmental policy. In 1986, the project received the "Bronze Ear" at the International Agricultural Film Competition in Berlin for training films on sustainable agriculture . Walter Rüdel was made an honorary member in 1996 as a sponsor of the "Jordan Environment Society", the Jordanian environmental association.
Awards
- 1974: Bremen TV Prize , Radio Bremen , Reportage Prize for "Die Beatings"
- 1975: Federal Film Award of the FFA for "The remarkable life of Marieluise Fleißer from Ingolstadt"
- 1986: Bronzene Ähre, Agrarfilmfestival Berlin
- 1996: Honorary membership in the Jordan Environment Society
Books
- Where the Main is most beautiful , author Rudolf Vierengel, Verlag Walter Rüdel, Miltenberg 1952
- Adventure Africa , Neske Verlag, Pfullingen 1978, ISBN 9783788502157
Television documentaries
- 1964: July 20, 1944 - Resistance fighters from Baden-Württemberg ( SDR )
- 1966: Stuttgart in Edinburgh, report on the festival with Carlos Kleiber (SDR)
- 1969: The Bauhaus, Part 1: From Weimar to Berlin, Part 2: Traces after 50 years (SDR)
- 1970: Nicolas Schöffer, personality of the op artist in Paris ( NDR )
- 1971: Walter Erich Schäfer or The Theater Acts of a Landlord from Lower Bavaria ( ZDF )
- 1972: From the Reich to the Federal Republic, Part 1 - Collapse and a new beginning, Part 2 - Men from the very beginning (ZDF)
- 1972: The remarkable life of Marie Louise Fleisser from Ingolstadt ( BR )
- 1973: helpers, henchmen, or what? ( WDR )
- 1974: A man named Schulz - Do you still need philosophy? ( SWF )
- 1974: War on War (SWF)
- 1974: Chile after the storm - a path where? (BR)
- 1975: Martin Heidegger - On the move in thinking (SDR)
- 1975: President Friedrich Ebert (SDR)
- 1975: Chile today - "State of Emergency" (BR)
- 1976: Adventure South America (SWF / WDR)
- 1977: John Cranko - stations of a great choreographer (ZDF)
- 1977: I don't contradict myself - With Ernst Jünger in Africa (ZDF)
- 1978: Race for uranium - With geologists in 5 continents (WDR)
- 1979: Adventure Africa (SWF / WDR)
- 1979: The feast of the dead king - funeral rites in the Kingdom of Bafut / Cameroon (SWF / WDR)
- 1980: Training Journalists in Africa (FNS)
Individual evidence
- ^ Program gallery - broadcasts: T , Directory of the Deutsche Kinemathek
- ^ Gropius & Co. - Memories of the Bauhaus in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Der Spiegel" 4/1971
- ↑ "Der Spiegel" 32/1974
- ^ "Walter Erich Schäfer or The Theatrical Deeds of a Landlord from Lower Bavaria"
- ↑ "Der Spiegel" 32/1977
- ↑ "Der Spiegel" 14/1972
- ↑ "Martin Heidegger - On the move in thinking"
- ↑ Limits of Antiquity: The Productivity of Limits in Transformation Processes , Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2014 ( online at Google Books )
- ↑ "I am not contradicting myself" , YouTube video
- ↑ Ernst Jünger (1979) at the British Film Institute
- ↑ Neske production for film a. Television GmbH & Co.KG. on firma-24.de
- ↑ a b Country-People-Adventure on swr.de (PDF)
- ↑ Jabbra, Joseph G., Jabbra, Nancy Walstrom: Challenging Environmental Issues: Middle Eastern Perspectives , Brill , Leiden / New York City / Cologne 1997 ( online at Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rudel, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist, television producer and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weilbach |