Wenceslas Storch

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Wenzel Storch (born March 21, 1961 in Braunschweig ) is a German director and film producer .

Wenzel Storch (2014)

Life

Storch was an altar boy in the Catholic Church at a young age , which still shapes his work today. He got into filmmaking through an LSD trip that gave him the basic idea for the screenplay for The Shine Of These Days .

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Storch's fantastic films have a strongly surreal dreamlike atmosphere and tend to criticize the church . They are characterized by an opulent equipment that is built with very small production budgets. This is made possible by a high expenditure of time - compared to average cinema productions (the production of his last film, Die Reise ins Glück , took twelve years) and because he works as a budget-friendly producer, film distributor, director, screenwriter and cameraman at the same time.

In addition to his filmmaking activity, Storch writes columns for the magazine specifically , which appeared in book form in 2009 under the title Der Bulldozer Gottes . Also in 2009 Storch shot the music video for the single Altes Arschloch Liebe by Bela B.

In October 2014, Storch's play Come to My Wigwam was premiered at the Dortmund Theater. Storch was the first to work as a director for the theater. In the next season, his next play, Das Maschinengewehr Gottes , also premiered at the Dortmund Theater. Both pieces received good reviews. For example, the taz zu Komm wrote in my wigwam : "Storch's explorations in the undergrowth of the old federal republican mentality confusion [...] are a lot of fun! So also Come in my wigwam , Storch's first stage work, which premiered on Friday in Dortmund in front of an enthusiastic audience: Ein Colorful parish hall revue evening, which leads deep into the bizarre cosmos of Catholic enlightenment and propriety literature of the 50s, with special attention to the work of honorary prelate Berthold Lutz, who died in 2013, who was unceremoniously appointed by the director to the Catholic Oswald Kolle. "

The Jürgen Höhne trilogy

Storch became famous for his Jürgen Höhne trilogy, which was created between 1986 and 2004 and is named after its main actor. While amateurs act in all three films, in Die Reise ins Glück the writer Horst Tomayer , the singer Max Raabe and Harry Rowohlt lend some characters their voices. All three parts are also accompanied by a narrator's voice. In the summer of love it was Hans Paetsch , after whose death in 2002 Friedrich Schoenfelder took over the role for Die Reise ins Glück . The shine of these days and summer of love was filmed on Super 8 and copied by blow-up onto 16 mm film for theatrical distribution . The journey into happiness was made on 35 mm material .

"What is Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese for Storch his body and stomach actor Jürgen Höhne, an early retired, sächselnder truck drivers who like a wild bull plowed through stork movies and in the summer of love an unforgettable Conny- Kramer incarnation ", so the taz on the occasion of a benefit event of the Berlin Ice Age Cinema as part of the festival Z 2000 in the Academy of Arts in 2000.

Wenzel Storch states that for artistic reasons he does not work with professional actors : "Even if all Heiner Lauterbachs were available to me - I would take Jürgen Höhne." ( Die Zeit 34/2000)

reception

Opinions about Storch's work range from total rejection to enthusiasm.

  • Germany's best director - Titanic
  • Mix of Munchausen, Caligula and Sesame Street - Montreal Post
  • Anarchic, lustfully disturbing discourse of baroque visual joy - Sprengel Museum , Hanover
  • Wenzel Storch's new film is really bad . - BZ about the journey into happiness
  • Wenzel Storch's films are the most opulent Arte Povera that one can imagine. - taz

The magazine Geo (No. 11, 2000), Die Zeit (No. 34, 2000), the Hamburg edition of the taz (August 14, 2004) as well as others judged the outfitting design, the surreal aesthetics and the content of this trilogy der Spiegel (03/2005) enthusiastically, whereby comparisons with the established directors Terry Gilliam and the duo Jeunet & Caro were made; In the reporting, however, the particular marginality and lack of mass compatibility of Storch's work was often noted despite its artistic quality.

In July 2004, the last part of the trilogy was awarded the Audience Award in Silver in the Most Groundbreaking Film category at FanTasia in Montreal, North America's largest festival for fantastic films .

Filmography (selection)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freitag.de: "The trigger was LSD". Retrieved September 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ THOMAS GROH: In the altar servant milieu . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 20, 2014, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 16 ( taz.de [accessed December 9, 2018]).
  3. ↑ ANETTE (ANNETTE) KILZER: No more debt . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 8, 2000, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 23 ( taz.de [accessed December 9, 2018]).
  4. ↑ EKKEHARD KNÖRER: dvdesk: An everlasting flea market of the imagination . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 12, 2009, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 14 ( taz.de [accessed December 9, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Stork, Wenceslaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig