Walter Wehmeyer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Wehmeyer (born December 25, 1962 in Aachen ) is a German filmmaker, author and film producer.

Life

After training to be an actor at the Stage School of Dance and Drama Hamburg, Wehmeyer graduated from the University of Television and Film Munich . He has been working as a freelance director since 1996, mostly in collaboration with ORF, 3sat, BR and Swiss television.

In addition to background documentaries in Kosovo, Rwanda and Israel / Palestine, he made artist portraits, including the soprano KS Hilde Zadek , the pianist and conductor Jean-François Antonioli and the Transylvanian writer Eginald Schlattner .

His first feature film " Lina " had its Austrian theatrical release on March 10, 2017. It tells of the short marriage of the actress Lina Loos to the Austrian architect Adolf Loos , between 1902 and 1905.

Walter Wehmeyer is married to the mezzo-soprano Christina Baader and has lived in Vienna since 2000.

Filmography

  • 1991: About Giesing (together with Alexander Ammer and Quang Bobrowski), Awards: 1991: FBW-Predicate ”especially valuable”, 1992: DGB-Filmpreis at IFF Oberhausen, Starter-Filmpreis München, Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München, Int. Documentary Film Festival Munich: 1st Prize: New Films from Bavaria
  • 1994: Kosovo Kosova - Harbingers of War (Director, Editor)
  • 1996: Menschen Possible - Journalists' Diary Rwanda (Director, Prod., Editor)
  • 1998: Kosovo hotspot - between fear and rebellion
  • 1998: Pinchas and Ruth - memories with the Lapide couple
  • 2000: La vocation de l'écoute - Musique et spiritualité sur l'île d'Orta (director, camera, prod., Editor)
  • 2001: Fate and Resurrection - On the life path of Priest Erich Camenzind
  • 2002: Des yeux qui écoutent - Jean-François Antonioli et la Philharmonie de Timisoara
  • 2003: Singing as a way - from the life of the chamber singer Hilde Zadek
  • 2004: Magic of Clarity - From the life of the architect Anna-Lülja Praun (Director, Prod.)
  • 2005: Middle East - Hope and Trauma of Youth
  • 2006: Shadow Edge - The CARE and the excluded from Geneva Original title: Aimer les exclus, award at the “Prix Farel” festival, Neufchâtel
  • 2007: Sunken Faces - The Novels of Prison Pastor Eginald Schlattner (Director, Prod., Editor)
  • 2008: On the power of the suspect - Eginald Schlattner and the Securitate trauma (director, prod., Editor)
  • 2009: The hard way out of the slum - street children and street workers in Nairobi (director, camera, prod., Editor)
  • 2011: Awakening of women - eight pioneers of the Austrian women's movement (director, prod., Editor)
  • 2011: Music after the war - Kosovo between trauma and a new beginning (direction, production, editing)
  • 2014: One State for All - The Israel-Palestine Peace Camp (Director, Cinematography, Prod., Editor)
  • 2015: Let's talk about Land - Israeli and Palestinian peace activists (director, camera, prod., Editor)
  • 2017: Shattered - Journey into a silent past (direction, camera, production, editing)
  • 2017: Was ist das Leben - Isabella Krapf & Pyongyang Harmonica Ensemble (direction, camera, production, editing)
  • 2017: LINA (co-author, co-director, production) together with Christine Wurm, W. Andreas Scherlofsky, Tino Ranftl, Andreas Weiss and Brigitte Benesch, awards: 'Special Mention' at the Chicago Amacord Arthouse Festival 2016, 'Best Directors' and 'Best Actress' at Kiev Int. Film Festival 2017

camera

  • 2004: Unwanted cinema
  • 2005: Posse and Prophecy
  • 2014: Sounds of the Stone Age
  • 2014: Metall-Zeiten or: The hierarchization of society
  • 2017: Martins Weg - The End of Peacefulness in Christianity
  • (Direction: Petrus van der Let )

Scripts

  • 2014: LINA (together with Christine Wurm, W. Andreas Scherlofsky, Tino Ranftl and Brigitte Benesch)
In development
  • 2020: AWAKENING (based on the novel "The Piano in Fog" by Eginald Schlattner)
  • 2020: FAMILY SILENCE

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2443040/
  2. ↑ About Giesing | filmportal.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ON THE POWER OF SUSPECT - EGINALD SCHLATTNER AND THE SECURITATE-TRAUMA. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Amarcord Arthouse TV Fest. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Aurelia Gruber: Lina a film about Lina Loos. How to live authentically. In: European Cultural News. March 12, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Posse & Prophecy. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sounds of the Stone Age. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Metal Times. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Martin's way. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ LINA - the film, LINA. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wehmeyer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, author and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen