Helmut Herbst
Helmut Herbst (born 2 December 1934 in Escherhof, Rhineland ) is a German film -maker. In his films and texts autumn, which specializes in the animation and experimental film that combines the study of art history and aesthetics of the film medium.
Life
After high school and university in Hamburg Helmut Herbst was 1958/59 with a painting scholarship to Paris, where he regularly visited the Cinémathèque française. "I have discovered in Paris the cinema", says the director retrospect (Lit.: . Conley et al, 1992). By Klaus Wildenhahn autumn came in contact with the panoramic editors of the NDR Gert von Paczensky and began in 1961 with a converted Ernemann wood camera from the 20s to turn trick parts for the TV magazine.
In 1962, he founded the company Cinegrafik, with which he produced animation parts for industrial films and television programs, but also their own animated films like Small instruction to a happy life (1962 /63 in collaboration with the lyricist Peter Rühmkorf ), Black -White-Red ( 1963/64, ) or the hat or uovo Mondo (1964). In the same year the film maker Francis Winzentsen joined the company, which was founded in 1970 partner of Cinegrafik.
Helmut Herbst, one of the most influential figures of the other movies of the 1960s and '70s heard in 1967 of the founding members of the Hamburg Film makers Cooperative, which was intended as a kind of European version of the American underground cinema.
After the documentary Germany DADA (1968 /69) produced the fall in addition to his work as a lecturer in film technology at the dffb in a mixture of animation and real parts of a series of " educational films " on issues of art and film history: Synthetic film or how the Monster King Kong was begotten of Fantasy & precision (1974 /75), John Heartfield, photo mechanic (1976 /77) and survivors photographs on a running gang - Guido Seeber ( 1979), about the pioneer of film tricks and camera technology. He also participated in the produced for the university and the television series on film montage Between the pictures, where he let the filmmakers Werner Nekes, Jean -Marie Straub / Danièle Huillet, Alexander Kluge and Klaus Wyborny present their theory and practice of installation.
In 1979, the film festival of the films [ sic ] makers a series directors came with political and financial support of the Senate of the Hanseatic city of Munich, maintaining that they must bring film culture to Hamburg, protested autumn with other Hamburg Film makers: " Munich ," says autumn in the conversation, and called Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge and Wim Wenders, " wanted to do something completely different. The Munich wanted to take over the German cinema. [ ... ] And they did so, then did. "
1981/82 Autumn realized the feature film A German Revolution by Kasimir Edschmid novel Buchner, a German revolution, and ten years later in German - Hungarian co-production The Serpentintänzerin / Szerpentintáncosnö about the early days of cinematography.
Since the late 1960s, Helmut Herbst mainly worked as a university teacher. From 1969 to 1979 he taught as a lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin ( dffb) and from 1985 to 2000 as a professor at the Offenbach School of Design.
After his retirement, Helmut Herbst lives in Brombachtal - Birkert (Odenwald ).