Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (December 8, 1935 - ) is one of the most controversial directors of New German Cinema.
Life and Work
Born in Nossendorf, Vorpommern the son of an estate owner, he lived until 1945 in Rostock and Berlin. In 1952 and 1953 he created his first 8 mm. takes of rehearsals by the Berliner Ensemble. In 1953 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he in 1956 began studies in literature and art history, completing them the following year. He earned his doctorate in Munich with his thesis on "The Absurd in Dürrenmatt". In 1963 Syberberg began producing documentary films about Fritz Kortner and Romy Schneider for Bavarian Radio and others. He continues to live in Munich.
Cinema represents a vital passion for Syberberg, a "general artwork". His cinematographic work results from a fusion between two fundamentally contradictory poles of German culture heritage: 18th century rationalism and 19th century mysticism. His work has captured international interest: Susan Sontag and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe have written about his work, and Francis Ford Coppola's film company released his Hitler: ein Film aus Deutschland (Hitler: a Film from Germany) into the United States under the rather more provocative title Our Hitler. Syberberg is also noted for the acclaimed visual interpretation of the Wagner Opera Parsifal (1982).
Filmography
- 1965 - Fünfter Akt, Siebte Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe
- 1965 - Romy. Anatomie eines Gesichts
- 1966 - Fritz Kortner spricht Monologe für eine Schallplatte
- 1966 - Wilhelm von Kobell
- 1966 - Die Grafen Pocci - einige Kapitel zur Geschichte einer Familie
- 1968 - Scarabea - Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch
- 1969 - Sex-Business - made in Pasing
- 1970 - San Domingo
- 1970 - Nach meinem letzten Umzug
- 1972 - Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König
- 1972 - Theodor Hirneis oder: Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird
- 1974 - Karl May
- 1975 - Winifried Wagner und die Feschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975
- 1976 - Hitler. Ein Film aus Deutschland
- 1981 - Parsifal
- 1984 - Die Nacht
- 1985 - Edith Clever liest Joyce
- 1986 - Fräulein Else
- 1987 - Penthesilea
- 1989 - Die Marquise von O.
- 1993 - Syberberg filmt Brecht
- 1994 - Ein Traum, was sonst
- 1997 - Höhle der Erinnerung
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