Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Jörg Schmidt- riding wine ( born February 21, 1939 in King Wusterhausen ) is a German cinematographer.
The son of the painter Karl Schmidt- riding wine and his wife Barbara, born Linde grew after the death of his father in 1941 in Bad Schwartau. From 1952 he attended the Waldorf School in Rendsburg. In 1957 he began in Lübeck to study physics, which he broke off after four semesters.
In 1959 he moved to Berlin and practiced in the dubbing studio Aer Film / Genschow film as well as in the lab Fikopa. In 1960, he was responsible for the sound two short films in 1961 in the same function with Hans -Jürgen Pohlands feature film debut Tobby.
In 1961 he made headlines when he was arrested shortly after the Wall went up in support of an escape attempt and sentenced by the East German judiciary as traffickers and bounty hunters to five years in prison Bautzen. In 1964 Bail for butter in the value of 86,000 DM him the Federal Republic.
Schmidt Riding wine settled in Munich and was involved in the recordings of the films Wilder Reiter GmbH and every year. Since 1965 he was a camera assistant on several documentaries. In 1968 he assisted repeated cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann.
As Lohmann withdrew because of the danger of the shooting in the desert documentary mirage, jumped a Schmidt Riding wine, which he achieved his breakthrough. He became the preferred cinematographer Werner Herzog, but also collaborated with other directors of the New German Cinema as Werner Schroeter, Alexander Kluge, and especially Herbert Achternbusch. Twice he was awarded the German Film Award.
He was married from 1965 to 1972 with Erika Kaul and became a father to his daughter Iris Maria ( b. 1966 ). From the second marriage with Susanne Rupprecht his son Tobias Luke comes (* 1989).