Werner Biedermann (director)

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Werner Biedermann, director

Werner Biedermann (born May 9, 1953 in Essen ) is a German author and director .

Life

After studying design (visual communication and industrial design) with a degree in designer at the Folkwang University / University of Essen, he worked as deputy director of the Munich Film Museum in 1978/79. He then led film seminars and workshops for the Franco-German Youth Office, the Goethe-Institut , various adult education centers and lectured at the Westphalian Wilhelmsuniversität Münster and the University of Essen / GHS. From 1985 to 2001 he was head of studies in the cultural education department at the Volkshochschule Essen and head of the Essen municipal cinema. He also wrote articles for the daily newspapers WAZ , NRZ, for film magazines and is the author of fiction and film books.

Since 1979, Werner Biedermann has directed short and full-length films that have been shown in commercial and municipal cinemas as well as at festivals and in Goethe Institutes, including the full-length documentary "The fullness of life or The golden age" or the short film " Eggtime ”. Werner Biedermann was on the board of Filmbüros NW e. V. and lives in Essen.

Publications

  • 1979: Lotte Reiniger - A film biography in silhouette film and shadow theater , Munich 1979, ISBN 3-87490-532-2 .
  • 1980: Poems embedded in maxims and aphorisms , Essen 1980.
  • 1981: Pictures from Reality - essays on documentary film  together with Angela Haardt, Duisburg 1981.
  • 1981: Sincerely yours, Biedermann , Gelsenkirchen 1981, ISBN 3-922538-28-2 .
  • 1982: The penthouse in Babylon , Essen 1982.
  • 1983: Yours faithfully , Biedermann , Essen 1983, ISBN 3-9801081-0-4 .
  • 1984: Cinema and film work at the adult education center , together with Peter Kürner, ISBN 3-88513-033-5 .
  • 1989: The cinema calls , with contributions by Peter Kürner and Wolfgang Ruf, ISBN 3-88379-502-X .
  • 1989: Historical Definitions or Every Word is a Prejudice in The Experimental Film Handbook , ISBN 3-88799-033-1 .
  • 1989: Cinema of Sensuality , ISBN 3-88379-584-4 .
  • 1999: 50 years of film culture in Essen  together with Michaela Bach, Essen 1999.
  • 2000: Censored, Indexed, Discussed, or 'Censorship Occasionally' .
  • 2001: Hold a meal - eating and drinking in recent films  together with Johannes Horstmann, Schwerte 2001, ISBN 3-927382-43-4 .
  • 2004: Films, festivals and cineastes , Schwerte 2004, ISBN 3-927382-48-5 .
  • 2005: Life is like a box of chocolates… - Philosophical quotes , ISBN 3-927382-51-5 .
  • 2007: Advertising for sensuality  in Eros and religion , ISBN 978-3-89472-480-1 .
  • 2009: look into the film history  in Outer Space - Traveling in parallel worlds , ISBN 978-3-89472-632-4 .
  • 2010: The Cat Protocol - Record of an Approach , ISBN 978-3-00-029160-9 , 80 pages.
  • 2015: Film-Quiz , ISBN 978-3-89978-247-9 , Grupello-Verlag, 103 cards.
  • 2016: It's such a thing with feelings ... , ISBN 978-3-944427-16-4 , Ketteler-Verlag, 120 pages.
  • 2017: Striking films , ISBN 978-3-00-054160-5 , Kinemathek im Ruhrgebiet, 90 pages
  • 2018: With probability bordering on sensuality - catalog of works , ISBN 978-3-00-059464-9 , Kinemathek im Ruhrgebiet, 162 pages
Photo from the film "Probability bordering on sensuality", 1989

Filmography (selection)

Biedermann made a large number of films between 1979 and 2014, including cartoons, short fiction and documentaries, with a duration of between 19 seconds and 100 minutes.

  • 1979/1980: The social reality of the child in painting , documentary film, 45 minutes
  • 1979/1980: McLaren, Ruttmann and others ... , experimental film, 70 minutes
  • 1980/1981: This is film - Kluge, Godard and others ... , documentary, 80 minutes, with Falk Lenhard, Alexander Kluge , Hans-Jürgen Syberberg , Hark Bohm , Christian Ziewer , Lotte Reiniger and others
  • 1981: The fullness of life or The Golden Age , documentary, 90 minutes
  • 1981: Eggtime , short film comedy, 13 minutes, FSK: from 6 years, grade valuable from the German Film Evaluation Office (FbW), with Heinz Geiger, Sabine Platte, Dagmar Assauer, Frank Döhmann , Vera Noll, Christoph Schlingensief and others Tobis-Filmkunst
  • 1982: Who always strives , documentary, 45 minutes
  • 1983: The other dog - L'autre chien , short film, 30 minutes, FSK: from 12 years, grade valuable from the German film evaluation office (FbW), with Alfred Edel , Christoph Schlingensief, Sabine Platte, Heinz Geiger, Werner Pütz, Winfried Saup, Melu Eude, Axel Bücheler, Peter Kürner a. a.
  • 1983: the hat. In the light of the latest research , short film, 10 minutes, FSK: from 6 years, grade valuable from the German Film Evaluation Office (FbW), with Christoph Schlingensief, Werner Possardt , Michael Lentz, Sabine Platte, Manfred Dammeyer , Wolfgang J. Ruf , René Zey , Reinald Schnell , Hanns-Peter Hüster , Melu Eude, Joachim Klinger , Marianne Menze , Andreas Schreitmüller u. a. atlas film
  • 1983: Yin Yang , experimental film, 10 minutes, FSK: released without age limit, grade valuable from the German Film Evaluation Office (FbW), with In Sook and others nominated - on the proposal of the "International Film Week Mannheim" - for the Federal Film Prize 1983. atlas-film
  • 1985: The German living room , short film, 10 minutes, FSK: from 6 years, with Alfred Edel , Andreas Kunze , Christoph Schlingensief , Horst Kasperowski and others
  • 1985: Folkwang'85 - Festival of the Arts , documentary film, 15 minutes, FSK: released without age limit, grade valuable from the German Film Evaluation Office (FbW), with Pina Bausch , Reinhild Hoffmann , Susanne Linke , Andreas Kunze and others
  • 1989: Probability bordering on sensuality , short film, 30 minutes, with Tom Alker, Michael Springer, Eva Schöttges, Manuela Bausch-Berger, Jutta Leyer, Gereon Unnebrink, Axel Bücheler and others

Prices

  • Prize for experimental art Ruhr for Jamais-vu at the 24th film festival "blick ", Bochum, 2016
  • Experimental Film Prize Ruhr for The Metrics of Chance at the 20th film festival "Views", Bochum, 2012
  • “Award for the Best Video Art 2010” for The Kinetics of Emotions at the 12th International Festival of Film & Culture, Patras, Greece, 2010
  • Third prize for the short film Poetry is the ritual at the 2nd Wilhelmshavener Maritime Film Days, 1990
  • Advancement award for young artists of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the category film directing, 1984
  • Scholarship from the Hoechst AG Study Foundation, 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.blicke.org/preistraeger/2016.html
  2. ↑ http://www.blicke.org/preistraeger/2012.html
personal data
SURNAME Biedermann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH eat