Über den Regisseur

Edgar Reitz is a filmmaker, author and university teacher. He grew up in Morbach in the region of Hunsrück and studied German philology, journalism and dramatics in Munich. Since 1957 he has worked as a cameraman and director. Within the “Institut für Filmgestaltung” at the Ulm School of Design, he taught directing and camera work for eight years. His first feature film “Mahlzeiten“ was awarded at the Venice Film Festival in 1967. Since the mid 1970s, Reitz has been publishing numerous texts about film theory and film aesthetics, as well as stories, lyric poetry and literary versions of his films. Since 1994 he has been a professor of film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Among his most important films are “Cardillac“, “Die Reise nach Wien“, “Der Schneider von Ulm“, “Stunde Null“ and the internationally known “Heimat“ trilogy that consists of 31 single feature films and counts as one of the largest narrative film works in film history.

Pressestimmen

“Reitz’ ever so competent style is sprinkled this time with tumultuous juvenile curiosity towards this special fellow Leibniz, who was a European genius after all. Edgar Selge displays Leibniz as a questioning, and not a condoning person.” (Gunnar Decker, nd-aktuell.de)