Wolfgang Borges

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Wolfgang Borges (born December 28, 1938 in Hanover ; † March 14, 2014 in Travemünde ) was a German film director , film producer , cameraman , museum director and author . He was best known for his technology and expedition films.

Life

After graduating from high school , Wolfgang Borges studied theater studies , film directing, photography and mining history .

In 1960 he founded the UTV film television company . He also worked as a director for theater, film, television and radio and also took part in mining archaeological research projects. In 1975 he founded the Lower Saxony Mining Museum , which he headed as director from 1977 until 2004 as the mining museum Grube Lautenthalsglück . The carrier of the museum in the city of Langelsheim was the Hanover-based UTV-Film.

Borges was a member of the guild of professional filmmakers and a member of the German Museum Association .

In addition to his 1982 publication, Faces in the Pit , Borges produced various unprinted scripts as well as around 260 films for German and international television and around 340 programs for radio. He made documentaries for the North German radio , but also commercials . The film The Great Garden , in which Wolfgang Borges directed the camera, was nominated for an Oscar in 1965.

Borges has received numerous awards for his work.

Works (selection)

Fonts

Movies

  • 1965: The Great Garden (documentary, short film - camera work)
  • 1975: The common thread
  • 1986: Foray into the pits of yesterday (documentary)

literature

  • Albrecht von Kortzfleisch : A pioneer of the Harz coal and steel industry. On the death of Wolfgang Borges . In: The Harz. Magazine for people from the Harz Mountains and friends of the Harz Mountains. With the announcements of the Harz Club, the Harz Nature Park and the National Parks , publisher: Der Harzklub eV, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Wernigerode: Harz-Druckerei, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Reinhard Müller: Borges, Wolfgang , in: Wilhelm Kosch , Carl Ludwig Lang , Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . Biographisch-Bibliographisches Handbuch , Das 20. Jahrhundert , Vol. 2; 2nd edition, Zurich, Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-907820-00-2 and ISBN 3-908255-03-1 , Sp. 429; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c o. V .: Borges, Wolfgang in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 10, 2014, last accessed on December 11, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: Filminstitut remembers director / cinema shows films by Wolfgang Borges , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of December 11, 2018, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Simon Benne : Aus der Stadt / Filmmacher / Filminstitut remembers Wolfgang Borges on the HAZ website of December 10, 2018, last accessed on December 11, 2018
  5. ↑ a b c o. V .: Biography / Wolfgang Borges on the page whoswho.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Harald Gläser (Ed.): Handbook of the Museums: Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein , 2nd, revised edition, Munich; New York; London; Paris: KG Saur Verlag, 1981, ISBN 978-3-598-10345-2 and ISBN 3-598-10345-X , p. 224; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Borges, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, film producer, cameraman, non-fiction and screenplay author, museum director and author as well as entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2014
Place of death Travemünde