Heiner Carow
Heiner ( Heinrich) Carow ( born September 19, 1929 in Rostock, † January 31, 1997 in Berlin) was a German film director and vice president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and member of the West Berlin Academy of Arts.
Life
Carow was a son of the merchant Ernst Carow ( † 1945). He made together with the later writer Herbert neighbor graduated from high school in Rostock and attended from 1950 to 1952 the directing class at the DEFA Studio offspring under Slatan Dudow and Gerhard Klein. His first film as a director in 1952 under the title farmers fulfill the plan. After 1952 Carow worked at the DEFA Studio for popular science films. There he wrote screenplays and turned ten short documentaries, such as city on the coast ( 1954/1955 ). Since 1957 he was a director at the DEFA. In 1959 he became a member of the group " Berlin" under the direction of Slatan Dudow. He first turned children 's and youth films as you called him Amigo (1959 ) from a screenplay by Wera and Claus chef and Benno Pludra adaptations Sheriff Teddy (1957 ), Everyone has a story (1965) and The Journey to Sundevit (1966 ). His 1968 project turned the Russians could come in 1971 are listed called career in a diluted and provided with an additional presence action version; a copy of an earlier version cut could from Carow's wife, the editor Evelyn Carow, rescued and experienced its world premiere in December 1987.
In the 1970s, Carow made several successful present films, including The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973 ), which reached a cult status in the GDR, and Icarus (1975 ) about the life of a divorce the child, the Carow himself described as his best film. After Till death do us part (1978 ), he worked on several projects that could not be realized. Among them were a planned since 1964 filming of Grimmelshausen Simplicius Simplicissimus after a scenario by Franz Fühmann that was too expensive DEFA - line, and written in collaboration with the dramaturge Erika and Rolf Richter and the band Pankow rock opera Paule Panke, at the among other things, an unsympathetic drawn DDR Secretary of State and a gay secondary character disturbed. In 1986 he was with so many dreams back to finish a movie. He was, as his last two DEFA projects Coming Out ( 1989) and The Missing (1991 ), in collaboration with Erika Richter and the scenarist Wolfram Witt.
Carow in 1978 became a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, its vice- president, he was from 1982 to 1991, and in 1984 a member of the West Berlin Academy of Arts. After 1991 he worked mainly for television. He was Director of the Department of Film and Media Arts at the Academy of Arts in Berlin -Brandenburg in 1996.
Carow in 1959 and 1967 with the Heinrich Greif Prize, 1980 with the National Prize in 1988 for The Russians are coming with the Director's Award at the 5th National film festival of the GDR, 1989 with the German Critics' Prize and in 1990 for the movie coming out with the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1990, the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Academy of Arts and again honored with the Best Director Award at the National movie Festival of the GDR in 1990.
Heiner Carow was married to Evelyn Carow since 1954. From the marriage produced two children. His written heritage is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.