Wolfgang Landgraeber

Wolfgang Landgraeber (2013)

Wolfgang Landgraeber (born July 7, 1947 in Zell (Mosel) ) is a German television journalist and filmmaker .

overview

Landgraeber headed the Society / Documentation program group of West German Radio / Television until August 31, 2012 . From the late 1970s to the late 1990s, he was one of the most renowned investigative television journalists on public television in Germany. For his work as an editor and reporter for the magazines Monitor and Panorama and as an author of lengthy documentaries and television documentaries, he has received numerous prizes at national and international film and television festivals , including an Adolf Grimme Prize and prizes in Oberhausen and Mannheim, Moscow and New York. He has been teaching regularly at German film schools and universities since 1981.

Live and work

Landgraeber grew up in Wolfsburg and Dortmund . He studied social sciences and philosophy in Bochum and Munich , then documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich . He graduated in 1978 with the multi-award-winning political documentary "Close to the Shah".

By Ulrich Wickert he was in 1977 for WDR fetched. For the political magazine Monitor he produced more than 100 articles on political, social and ecological topics, for the most part using investigative methods, e.g. B. in the money laundering, gunsmith and secret service milieu. From 1979 to the end of 1983 he was a co-presenter at Monitor and until 1988 he appeared regularly with other Monitor editors and reporters on the program “Monitor im Kreuzverhör”. In 1988 he switched to Panorama magazine and the program "Panorama nachgefragt". In 1993 he went back to the WDR and in 1998 became editor-in-chief for political documentaries and reports. In addition, he worked as a professional commentator for socio-political and environmental issues in the issues of the day and as a writer for glosses in the daily series on a word in the radio program WDR 4 . In 1992, 1999 and 2001 he worked temporarily as a correspondent in the ARD studios in East Berlin, Washington and Moscow.

Landgraeber has been teaching at film schools and universities on a regular basis since 1982 and is a member of festival juries in Germany and abroad. He has written numerous book chapters on media science and media critical topics.

Since 1979, in addition to his work as an editor, he has produced around 30 documentaries, television documentaries and reports that have won numerous awards at national and international film and television festivals. Their common feature is a critical view of the domestic and foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, its representatives and its history. The thematic areas of militarism and arms exports are one of Landgraeber's priorities, with documentary films such as Far From War (1984), Panteon Militar (1991/92) and Living From Kill (2016).

In 2001 Landgraeber became head of the Society / Documentation program group at WDR. Since then, it has produced around 50 elaborate individual pieces and multi-part series for ARD from culture, history and nature as well as portraits of formative politicians in the Federal Republic. The program group produces films about the North Rhine-Westphalia region, its people and its history on several weekly program slots for WDR television. A large number of cinema co-productions are regularly made in the renowned WDR documentary film editorial team. Since leaving the WDR, Landgraeber has been working as a freelance filmmaker in Munich. From 2013 to the beginning of 2018 he was a member of the Bavarian regional board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm (AGDOK). Landgraeber is currently working as an online journalist for the international information service GN-STAT (Global Net - Stop the arms trade). He caused a stir u. a. with research on the use of German weapons in the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16

Awards (selection)

• 1976 German film critic's prize for “I don't want to live here” at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
• 1978 Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, VHS Prize, FIPRESCI Prize for “Close to the Shah” at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
• 1984 Grand Prize of the City of Mannheim, FIPRESCI Prize and Interfilm Award for “Far From War” at the International Mannheim Film Festival; Nomination for the Federal Film Prize
• 1985 Adolf Grimme Prize : Honorable recognition for the monitor broadcast on August 21, 1984
• 1985 Peace Prize of the Moscow International Film Festival for "Tropical Fruits from Oberndorf"
• 1986 Josef Drexel Prize from Nürnberger Nachrichten for the Monitor editorial team
• 1987 RFFU media award for the MONITOR editorial team
• 1996 Gold Medal at the New York Festivals for "Anxiety Included in the Airfare" (Editor)
• 1998 CIVIS Prize for a monitor contribution on absurd provisions in immigration law
• 2006 Banff World Television Award nomination for "Wind Force 8" (Editor)
• 2011 Silver Plaque of the Hugo Television Award for "We are looking for ... the Arab Schindler" (editor)
• 2011 Gold Award of the New York Festivals for "Günter Wallraff - Black on White" (editor)

Filmography (selection)

• 1978: Close to the Shah (feature documentary)
• 1979: Viva Loisaida! The Lower East Side - a ghetto in New York (ARD)
• 1979: Just a couple of brown sheep? - Neo-Nazis at German schools (ARD)
• 1980: I removed my illusions - freed GDR prisoners in the Federal Republic (WDR)
• 1984: Far From War (feature documentary)
• 1984: Southern fruits from Oberndorf
• 1985: Under German roofs - The Oberndorf Conscience (ARD)
• 1987: Fable times - long-term observation of a running talent (WDR)
• 1990: The face given - German facial surgeons help war victims in Cambodia (WDR, DW)
• 1991: We are looking for ... invisible death - About research on biological weapons (ARD)
• 1992: Panteon Militar - The "Crusade Against Subversion" in Argentina's military dictatorship (cinema documentary)
• 1992: The Destruction of the RAF Legend (ARD)
• 1993: The mastermind - how Wolfgang Schäuble enables the Chancellor to govern (ARD)
• 1995: Four Chancellors in Bonn and the love of power - The CDU turns 50 (ARD)
• 1996: Tsar Boris and the arsonists - Yeltsin's Chechen War (ARD)
• 1997: Dada-mpf-da! How the Bavarian Biermösl Blosn blows the march to politicians (ARD)
• 1998: Diamond Fever - Gemstones from the Ocean (ARD)
• 1998: The end of an era - a chancellor resigns (ARD)
• 1999: Kisten, Kölsch and farewell grief - The Bundestag moves to the Spree (ARD)
• 2000: Kohl's girl, Kohl's heiress - Angela Merkel's path to power (ARD)
• 2001: Winning or going down - the last days of "Graf Spee" (ARD)
• 2006: 100 million carats - The Oppenheimer diamond dynasty (ARD)
• 2016: Living From Killing (feature documentary). The film about the weapons city Oberndorf aN , headquarters of the companies Heckler & Koch and Rheinmetall Defense (formerly Mauser) was premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Munich . Further festival participation: SWR Documentary Film Festival 2017; Olympia International Film Festival 2017

Fonts

• The political short film in Oberhausen 1967-1971 . In: Werner Petermann, Ralph Thoms (Hrsg.): Kino-Fronten - 20 years '68 and the cinema . Trickster-Verlag, Munich 1988.
• Wolfgang Landgraeber, Ekkehard Sieker, Gerhard Wisnewski : The RAF Phantom . New investigation into terrorism . New edition. Knaur-Verlag, Munich 2008.
• Germany in Autumn - The topic of "Terrorism" in German feature films between 1975 and 1985 , Ed. Reimers, Karl-Friedrich, UVK-Medien Oelschläger 1995
• "Not another day in the hardware store! " In: Wolf, Fritz, (Ed.) Everything documentary or what? On the differentiation of the documentary on television, Landesanstalt für Mediem Nordrhein-Westfalen 2003
• You out there, we in here - on the complicated relationship between documentary film writer and editor in: Feil, Georg (ed.): Documentary television - an inventory, UVK-Verlagsgesellschaft Konstanz 2003
• The political documentary on German television - a current inventory in: Moving with pictures - the political film today Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2009
• "Please no pictures of misery!" in: Strategies of approach - representation of the foreign on German television, ed. Julia Bayer u. a., Horlemann-Verlag Bad Honnef 2004
• "The main thing against it!" in: Pictures of the Wilder Years - Political Films of the 1970s at the HFF, eds. Früh, Judith and Simon, Helen, edition Text and Criticism Munich 2011

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Landgraeber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Landgraeber in the Internet Movie Database (English)