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Werner Schroeter
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Born 1945 in Georgenthal

Vita
Werner Schroeter defended since the late sixties, a singular position in the international film scene. Schroeter's first experimental films on 8mm created 1967th In a phase breathtaking productivity 1968/69 was followed by numerous more experimental films on 8mm and 16mm. Even these early works were influenced by Werner Schroeter's immense love for the opera, and in particular for Maria Callas, which is for Schroeter's life and work of the utmost importance. Like Callas on the opera stage, tried to Werner Schroeter on the movie screen in exzessiverWeise "the few totally acceptable emotions: life, love, joy, hate, jealousy and fear of death in its totality and without psychological analysis put forward." Schroeter's first feature film Eika Katappa received 1969 the Mannheim International Film weeks the Josef von Sternberg Award, and learned much interest in the international film critics. The film ushered in a second phase in the work of Werner Schroeter, which meant a turning away from a purely experimental way to - at least to some narrative - feature film. With a relatively stable group of actors (such as Christine Kaufmann or especially Magdalena Montezuma) turned Schroeter a series fascinating, extravagant films of operatic theatricality, the fragmentary "Tell flakes" (Sebastian Feldmann) to komplexenallegorischen image and sound collages added, such as Salome (1971 ), The Death of Maria Malibran (1971), Willow Springs (1972-73) or Flocons d'Or (1973-76). Love, death, longing and passion run like a leitmotif through these issues dazzling works, was one of the greatest admirers of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Schroeter was next to Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog, or to one of the most important exponents of the rising young German cinema. As a cosmopolitan homeless Schroeter turned in those years in Mexico, France, Lebanon, the Czech Republic, Austria, USA and Italy. At the same time he began to increase and with great international success for the theater and the opera to stage. After he Regno di Napoli a move to a more epic, more realistic style surprise was with 1978, learned Werner Schroeter 1980 with the decidedly political triptych Palermo or Wolfsburg his biggest success so far. This passion story of a Sicilian immigrant worker in the Federal Republic will be awarded at the Berlinale, the Golden Bears. This was followed by more movies like Day of the Idiots (1982) and The Rose King (1984-86) and documentary film essay. The Literature Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek adapted by Ingeborg Bachmann filming Malina (1990), with Isabelle Huppert in the title role, celebrated in Cannes premiere and the German film awards, including in the categories of Best Film and Best Director awarded. In the Werner Schroeter nineties concentrated on theater and opera work, so only a few documentary films were made (such as waste products of love, 1996). In 2002, he celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival with Deux a brilliant feature film comeback, which in its highly fragmented manner, the stylistic and thematic universe Schroeter still brilliantly condenses once. With Tonight (2008) surprised Werner Schroeter after six years of abstinence from the screen again with a new facet of his work. The film was shown in competition at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, Werner with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was awarded Schroeter where. Schroeter early 2009 were first photographs in an exhibition called autrefois et toujours public display. Since 1973 was the director from the companions of his art and life cycle, such as Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann and Antonio Orlando. The work is Polaroid, and disposable cameras Minox created with and without digital manipulation has been enlarged. On 12 Werner Schroeter died April 2010 in Kassel, of cancer.