Werner Filmer

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Werner Filmer (born May 16, 1934 in Iserlohn ) is a German journalist , writer and author .

Life

Werner Filmer was a senior editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Most recently on television as deputy editor-in-chief for politics and current affairs alongside Fritz Pleitgen and as head of the culture and science program area. He has produced a large number of television documentaries and reports and has received numerous awards and prizes. As a knowledgeable independent author, he wrote political non-fiction books and published biographies as a co-author, often together with Heribert Schwan , including about Weizsäcker , Kohl , Genscher , Rau and Schäuble . In addition, Filmer wrote narrative texts , poems and radio plays until the 1980s .

Filmer was an active St. George Scout (DPSG) in his youth and processed the impressions of his journeys in song texts and stories.

Filmer now lives in Bergisch Gladbach and spends a large part of the year in Provence. Most recently he wrote the biography of the largely forgotten German sculptor Marg Moll , the grandmother of his wife Iris Filmer.

Awards

  • 1973: Ernst Schneider Prize , television, major business broadcast:  Monte Carlo without music
  • 1981: Ernst Schneider Prize, television, big business broadcast:  Trials of strength: he risked everything
  • 1984: Adolf Grimme Prize , honorable recognition (script and direction) for The Repressed Danger: What Remains of Hitler - Neo-Nazism Today
  • 1985: Ernst Schneider Prize, television, major business broadcast: Pictures of Germany:  Under the hammer

Works

  • Orion and 41 . Augsburg 1961
  • Games for us . Düsseldorf 1961
  • Forays . Augsburg 1963
  • The game of the boy Georg . Düsseldorf 1964
  • Tent, my world . Augsburg 1967
  • Hännes chases through Cologne with Tschik . Augsburg 1978 (together with Klaus Burandt)
  • Caspar's hot night in Essen . Augsburg 1981 (together with Micha Köck)
  • What remained of Hitler . Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 1983 (together with Heribert Schwan )
  • Helmut Kohl . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1985 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Richard von Weizsäcker - Profiles of a Man. Munich 1985, Droemer, ISBN 3-426-03796-3
  • Johannes Rau . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1986 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Lothar Späth . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1987 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1988 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Between you and me the ocean . Bergisch Gladbach 1988
  • Norbert Blüm . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1990 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Oskar Lafontaine . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1990 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Victim of the wall . Munich 1991 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Susanne Fleer: Farewell to life . Munich 1991
  • Wolfgang Schäuble . Munich 1992 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Roman Duke . Munich 1994 (together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Dream destinations, Malpartida - on the trail of Wolf Vostell . Munich 1994 (together with Ernst - Michael Wingens on the Museo Vostell Malpartida in Spain)
  • My father . Munich 1995
  • The Harz journey . Hamburg 1997 (together with Walter Mayr)
  • Marg minor . Munich 2009

Editing

  • What's for me peace . Oldenburg [u. a.] 1982 (edited together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Having life ahead of you . Würzburg 1983
  • Richard von Weizsäcker - Profiles of a Man . Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1984 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Learn to do without . Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 1984 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Everyday life in the other Germany . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1985 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Man, the war is over . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1985 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • My mother . Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1989 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Encounters with Richard von Weizsäcker . Munich 1993 (published together with Heribert Schwan)
  • Defeated, liberated ... Munich 1995 (published together with Heribert Schwan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author and filmmaker: Werner Filmer in portrait. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved May 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Great -granddaughter of Marg Moll: A family of female artists. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved May 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ ADOLF GRIMME INSTITUT - Prize Winner. In: www.grimme-institut.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Filmer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn