Kurt Gloor
Kurt Gloor ( born November 8, 1942 in Zurich, ZH, Switzerland, † September 20, 1997 ) was a Swiss film director.
Life
The son of the insurance inspector Kurt Gloor and his wife Irma, nee Surbeck, graduated in Zurich a graphic teaching and the School of Applied Arts in Zurich. He worked in various studios in Zurich and Vienna, and was a camera assistant in the production of advertising films.
In 1969 he founded the Kurt Gloor film production. From 1969 he was an independent, socially critical filmmaker who initially worked on documentaries such as The Landscape Gardening (1969 ) or The Green Children ( 1971). Until 1972 he led it and the camera. His films were critical with the cliché of a cure Switzerland, polarized the audience. The him by the jury for his film The green children which addressed one of the first environmental degradation in Switzerland, Zurich Film Prize awarded was denied by Mayor and Councillor.
In the general public he was with his first listed on the 1976 Berlinale film known The sudden solitude of Konrad Steiner Steiner Sigfrit in the lead role. The film about an old widower, will be put to the nursing home, has received numerous awards. After several feature films he produced from 1993 documentaries for television.
Kurt Gloor was married to Verena Christen since 1965 and had a daughter named Corina. In 1997 he resigned voluntarily from the life. His grave is in the cemetery Manegg.