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Winfried Junge with wife Barbara (2010)

Winfried Junge (born July 19, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German documentary film director who is best known for the long-term project Die Kinder von Golzow .

Life

Barbara and Winfried Junge in the cutting room

Junge first studied German at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin; In 1954 he was one of the first students to move to the new German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1958 he passed the diploma examination as a film dramaturge with the theoretical work Some problems of the design of the new hero in the DEFA documentary film with industrial themes . He then worked at the DEFA studio for popular science films as an assistant to the GDR documentary film director Karl Gass . In 1961, based on his idea, the first part of the Golzow series was created under the title When I first go to school . In the same year Junge received a contract as a director in the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries. In 1963 he made the documentary film The Children Because - Escape to the Fatherland about emigrants from the FRG to the GDR.

In 1979, Junge was elected deputy chairman of the Documentary Film and TV Journalism section of the GDR's Association of Film and TV Makers. From 1985 to 1987 he was President of the GDR National Documentary and Short Film Festival for cinema and television in Neubrandenburg. After the end of the GDR and with it DEFA, Junge continued the Golzow project in co-production with broadcasters of the ARD , especially the RBB . The A Jour Film and TV Production GmbH in Berlin-Koepenick has since producer of his films.

In 1990 Winfried Junge became Vice President of the International Leipzig Festival Committee for Documentary and Animated Film and in 1995 a member of the AG Dokumentarfilm e. V. Together with his wife Barbara , he was appointed a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Arts in 1996 .

Winfried and Barbara Junge live in Berlin today.

Junge has shot a total of more than 50 documentaries for cinema and television, including reports from abroad (for example In Syria on Montage (1970), Somalia - The Great Effort (1976)). He was also the director of the children's feature film The brave truant (1967).

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Winfried Junge  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Welcome to Socialism! Immigration from West to East , documentation on ZDFinfo )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Video Welcome to Socialism!  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 11, 2014. (offline)
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin