Peter Fleischmann

Peter Fleischmann 26 July 1937 11 August 2021 was a German film director screenwriter and producer He worked also as an actor cutter sound engineer interviewer and speaker Fleischmann belonged to the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s He is known for directing the 1969 Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern Hunting Scenes from Bavaria but he produced films of many genres Peter Fleischmann was born in Zweibrücken He studied at the Deutsches Institut für Film und Fernsehen German Institute of Film and Television DIFF in Munich and Institut des hautes études cinématographiques IDHEC in Paris He had contact with representatives of the French Nouvelle Vague movement and became a friend of JeanClaude Carrière with whom he later wrote screenplays After years as an assistant director he became a director in 1963 in short films and childrens films In 1967 he directed a documentary Herbst der Gammler about the Gammler subculture which anticipated the gereration conflicts of the 1968 student movement His first fulllength film was released in 1969 Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern based on the play of the same name by Martin Sperr who also played the leading role The film reflects critically how a Bavarian village deals with outsiders especially the homosexual character played by Sperr The film was awarded prizes including the Filmband in Silber of Deutscher Filmpreis It was suggested for a nomination as the Oscars best foreign film but was not nominated The film made Fleischmann a representative of the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s The same year Fleischmann and Volker Schlöndorff founded the film production company HallelujahFilm In Fleischmanns later works often the seemingly villainous character would turn out to be a good person In Das Unheil Havoc with a script by Fleischmann and Martin Walser he criticised in 1972 the provincial attitude of a Hessian small town and pollution of the environment The film was awarded the Prix Luis Buñuel of the Cannes Festival In Dorotheas Rache 1974 he created a provocative satire on the sexfilm wave His 1979 film The Hamburg Syndrome Die Hamburger Krankheit about an unknown infectious plague in German with actor Helmut Griem received attention again in 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic Source Article Peter Fleischmann from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30