Winfried Hennig

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Winfried Hennig (born August 23, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German stage designer , film and television.

Life

Hennig came to western Germany in 1950 and grew up in Lower Saxony for the next ten years . In 1960 he went to Munich , began his practical training as a theater painter at the Bavarian State Opera and received his theoretical instruction at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . From 1971 to 1973 he worked as a set designer at the Münchner Kammerspiele , after which he worked as a freelancer.

In 1975 Hennig was brought in by the architect Nikos Perakis as his right-hand man for the film Berlinger . Also in 1975, the Leipziger designed his first own movie decorations. In his role as film architect, Winfried Hennig was primarily active for key representatives of young German film , alongside Perakis also Alexander Kluge , Edgar Reitz , Reinhard Hauff , Margarethe von Trotta and Alf Brustellin . In addition, he also took care of the visual design of satirical-parodistic works by Gerhard Polt ( Kehraus and Man sprach deutsh ) and Loriot ( Pappa ante portas ). His television designs mainly decorated Dieter Wedel's high-quality productions ( Black Red Gold , Wilder West inclusive , The Great Bellheim , The Shadow Man and The Semmeling Affair ).

family

His son Aljoscha Hennig (cameraman) is also active in the film industry.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 635.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aljoscha Hennig. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig