Haro Senft
Haro Senft ( born September 27, 1928 in Budweis, former Czechoslovakia) is a film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
The son of a bank manager Jaroslaus Senft and his wife Hermine, nee Reitenspieß attended a secondary school in Prague. From September 1943 to April 1945 he was an Air Force auxiliary, civil interned from May 1945 to May 1946. He studied from 1949 at the Academy for stage, film and radio in Wiesbaden. He also worked as a volunteer and assistant in film productions.
In 1954 he founded in Wiesbaden his own film production company Boheme film and 1956 as the successor in Munich, Haro Senft film production. In addition to the active production of films Senft engaged in film policy initiatives. In 1958 he was co-founder of film form - the third program, 1959, the DOC 59th 1962, he was the initiator and co-author of the Oberhausen Manifesto and speakers or Board of Oberhausen Group. 1961-1963 he worked as a guest lecturer at the Ulm School of Design and was a founding member ( from 1965 Board of Trustees of young German film ) Foundation Young German film.
Senft has received numerous national and international awards and prizes for short films, documentaries and feature films. His documentation Kahl was nominated in 1962 as the first German short film for an Oscar. 1964 was the filmmaker the German Film Award for the short film Car. From the early 1970s he became increasingly involved for the German children's film. He was, for example, the first prize for the film A day with the wind at the 8th International Children's Film Festival in Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy.
To his participation in various film industry bodies included the establishment and membership of the Association of New German Feature Film Producers whose honor he is a member since 2002. He was also a board member of the association until 1998 German children's film. From his first marriage his daughter Marion dates (* 1948).
Filmography
Publications (selection )
- Frauke Hanck: Young man making career. In: The World. October 29, 1966 (Interview).
- Haro Senft: Film - a program against the dream factory. In: Ulrich Greiwe (ed.): The challenge for the future. Desch, Munich 1970.
- Theda Muffler Kluth, Elke Ried: foray into the real life of children. Add to Media. October 1978, pp. 24-28 ( interview).
- Rainer Lewandowski: The Oberhausen. Reconstruction of a group from 1962 to 1982. Director, Diekholzen 1982.
- Wolfgang Schneider ( ed.): Departure to the new West German children's film. Eulenhof, Hardebek 1982, ISBN 3-88710-018-2, pp. 132-138 ( article by Theda Kluth ).
- Haro Senft: Education is an act of love. In: Hans Günther Pflaum (ed.): Yearbook film 82 /83. Hanser, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-446-13630-4, pp. 128-135.
- Günter Jurczyk: The children take important. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 20, 1983 (Interview).
- Danielle Kruger: Promotion as an act of mercy. In: Spectrum film. October 1986, pp. 16-17 ( interview).
- Michaela S. Ast: Vogelfrei in the Magic Tree - From the Life of the movie rebels Haro Senft. Karl Stutz Publisher Passau, 2013, ISBN 3-88849-069-3.