Thomas Heise

Thomas Heise ( born August 22, 1955 in East Berlin ) is a German documentary filmmaker.

Life

Heise, son of the philosophy professor Wolfgang Heise, completed 1971-1973 apprenticeship as a printer. After a year of military service in the NVA Thomas Heise 1975 to 1978 worked as an assistant director at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films, including Heiner Carow at Till death do you part (1978). At the same time he took his Abitur at the night school. In 1978 he began studying directing at the Academy of Film and Television " Konrad Wolf", which he broke in 1982. Since Heise is a freelance writer and director. His first documentary, which emerged during the GDR period, however, were banned or did not reach the performance.

1987-1990 Heisenberg was a master student of Gerhard shy man at the Academy of Arts of the GDR. During this time, he realized for the broadcast of the GDR, the radio feature resistance and adaptation - survival strategy. Memories of a man at the camp at Dachau (1987 ), where his talks with the actor Erwin Geschonneck are based. Resistance and adaptation is one of the important works in the area of the O- sound features. Despite Geschonneck intercession finished production was established for political reasons on ice and banished to the archive. In early December, 1989, four weeks after the fall of the wall, the piece was urgesendet from the Berliner Rundfunk.

Only after the turn of Thomas Heise was known, and put more contentious works before, including 1992 Jam - Here we go about the right-wing youth scene in Halle an der Saale. From 1993 to 1998 he directed several plays at the Berliner Ensemble, including Bertolt Brecht's The Bread Shop (1993) and Joe Fleischhacker (1998), Heiner Müller's Cement (1994) and Construction (1996 ) and Michael Wild grove In the Shadow of the Moon and Hungry Hearts ( 1995). His film My Brother. We Will Meet Again at the Berlinale 2005.

Since the winter semester 2007/ 08 Thomas Heise is Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.

On 5 September 2008, he turned the segment on the S-Bahn station east cross for Volker Heise's 24 - hour documentary project 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life, which aired exactly a year later on several television stations.

Heise's film The location of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. ran in Germany 2011 Berlinale Forum, 2012.

Filmography

Writings

  • Tracks. An Archaeology of the real existence of the documentary texts, Volume 13; Publisher Vorwerk 2010. ISBN 978-3-940384-22-5
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