Wilhelm Hein (director)

Wilhelm Hein (born February 12, 1940 in Duisburg ; lives and works in Berlin ) is a German avant-garde filmmaker , film producer , film director , film theorist and performance artist . He is considered one of the most important "underground filmmakers" in Germany.

life and work

Wilhelm Hein studied art and economics at the University of Munich . This was followed by studying art history, philosophy and German in Cologne. For years Hein was the assistant to Professor Alphons Silbermann at the Institute for Mass Communication in Cologne.

In 1968 Wilhelm Hein co-founded " XScreen " in Cologne for subculture events and programming for various cinemas. " XScreen " was the first projection site for independent films in Germany.

From 1966 to 1988 he worked with Birgit Hein in the form of performances and films . Together with Birgit Hein, he was involved in two film projects at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New European Cinema department and also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977.

Wilhelm Hein published numerous publications on avant-garde film. Since 1989 he has been working on a 13-hour documentary, among other things.

Literature and Sources

• Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
• Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
• XSCREEN, materials about the underground film, W + B Hein, Phaidon Vlg 1971

Filmography

1967 Olé 1967 S&W 1967 What about you? 1968 green 1968 raw film 1968 Commercial No. 1: Bamberg 1969 625 1969 Reproductions 1969 Visualization of the mode of operation of optical laws using a simple example 1969 square dance 1969 Work in Progress Part A. 1. Take. - 2. Catania. - 3. Without title. - 4. Without title. - 5. The robbery of the jewels. - 6. Without title 1970 Excerpts from a biography 1970 photo film 1970 Ludwig van Beethoven - A life for music 1970 Madison / Wis. 1970 portraits. 1. Charles Manson. - 2. Ronald Biggs. - 3. Wilhelm Hein 1970 replay 1970 Aesthetics inherent in reproduction 1970 Work in Progress Part B 1971 Old material 1971 motorway 1971 double projection I 1971 I Want You To Be Rich 1971 With love 1971 portraits. 4. Nina I-III 1971 videotape I. 1971 Work in Progress Part C. 1919. - Feature film. - bullfight. - Karin Michelis 1936. - Speaker. - Nudist act. - boxing match. - Blondie. 1971 Work in Progress Part D. 1971 Yes to Europe 1971 Zoom - short version

1971 Zoom - long version 1972 Fade in / fade out 1972 documentation 1972 double projections II-V 1972 football 1972 portraits. Old family photos. - 1936. - Old material 1972 portraits. Kurt Schwitters I, II, III 1972/1973 Dated material 1973 God Bless America 1973 London 1973/1974 stills 1974 artist films I 1974 artist films II 1974 structural studies 1975 portraits II 1976 material films I 1976 Material films II 1977 Portraits III (1970–1977) 1978 Kurt Kren. Portrait of an experimental filmmaker 1978/1979 Damned for all eternity 1980 Superman and Superwoman 1981 The media and the image. Andy Warhol art 1982 Love Stinks - Pictures of Daily Madness 1984–1986 Forbidden Images 1985 Home Movies 1971-1981 1985/1986 Monumental film about the life and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ, in short: Jesus film / episode: washing feet 1987 The inside of the pomegranate 1987/1988 The Kali films 1989-1994 To Those Who Found no Graves 1996 The king of the frog legs 2002 You Killed the Undergroundfilm Or The Real Meaning of Art Stays ... Stays ... 2000/2009 Materialfilm Performance: A 35mm Cinemascope Expanded Cinema Event

Web links

• Art aspects
• filmportal.de
• Wilhelm Hein
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Hein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Wilhelm Hein (director) in the documenta archive