Ulrich Schamoni
Ulrich Schamoni ( born November 9, 1939 in Berlin, † March 9, 1998 ) was a German film director, screenwriter, actor and media entrepreneur.
Biography
Ulrich Schamoni was born into a film family. His father Victor Schamoni was director and film theorist, his mother Mary screenwriter. After the death of his father in the war Ulrich and his three brothers Thomas, Victor and Peter initially lived with his mother in Werl. During this time, his uncle William Schamoni care of him. He made this surrogate father in 1982 in the TV movie " The Vicar of Helmeringhausen or what use is it for eternity " on the subject. Later the family moved to Münster. With 19 years Schamoni wrote the novel "Your son says hello ", which was immediately indexed by show as harmful to minors. After the demolition of the gymnasium Schamoni went to Munich, where he attended drama school and worked from 1959 as an assistant director, among others, Wilhelm Dieterle.
In 1965 he directed his first feature film It, exploring the relationship of the crisis of an unmarried young couple (Sabine Sinjen, Bruno Dietrich ). The film was a success with critics and audiences and won in 1966 a total of five federal film awards. Three more, and the " Silver Bear " at the Berlin Film Festival in 1967 went 1967 Every year, the ironic statement Schamonis with bourgeois hypocrisy of his former adopted home of Munster. In 1967 he bought with the proceeds of one family house in the Furtwänglerstraße 19 in Berlin. It was his home as well as his place of work. 1968 was laid after a witty portrait of leftist Berlin culture and student scene, with quartet in bed.
With its content and form new movies Ulrich Schamoni established - as well as his brother Peter - as a leading representative of the New German Cinema. Schamoni wanted to tackle with his films against the German commercial cinema and sat down as signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto for a new realism in the cinema one. From 1978 he also produced films for German television. Later Schamoni turned away from the film and was a media entrepreneur. In 1987 he founded the first private radio station in Berlin hundred, 6 Schamoni was indeed FDP member, Hundred, 6 but was more in line with the CDU. In 1992 he was the first local television station IA television, where he also had a daily comment space. For both companies, he left later.
Ulrich Schamoni died on 9 March 1998 in Berlin from the effects of cancer and was buried in the Woodland Cemetery Zehlendorf in field 039-679.
On March 15, 2012 in the German cinemas of the documentary was to leave from the frogs on Schamonis life. This was realized by his daughter Ulrike based on his personal film diaries and shows Ulrich Schamoni during his leukemia.