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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Birth at
8 December 1935
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The representative of the innovative radical cinema Hans-Jürgen Syberberg hails from Germany. He was born on 8 December 1935 in Nossendorf (Vorpommern). The family of the landowner, together with Hans-Jurgen, lived in the village until 1947, and then moved to Rostock.
A favorable turn of fate for Zieberberg was the acquaintance with Benno Besson, who gave permission to visit the Berlin ensemble. In 1952-1953, Sieberberg made his first films using an 8 mm camera.
In 1953, the young director moved
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The representative of the innovative radical cinema Hans-Jürgen Syberberg hails from Germany. He was born on 8 December 1935 in Nossendorf (Vorpommern). The family of the landowner, together with Hans-Jurgen, lived in the village until 1947, and then moved to Rostock.
A favorable turn of fate for Zieberberg was the acquaintance with Benno Besson, who gave permission to visit the Berlin ensemble. In 1952-1953, Sieberberg made his first films using an 8 mm camera.
In 1953, the young director moved to Germany, where he studied philology and art history, and at the University of Munich defended his dissertation on the topic “Absurd in the work of Friedrich Durrenmatt”. After graduation, Sieberberg worked on Bavarian television, shooting portraits of public and secular figures. A feature of the work of this period was the release of two feature films “Scarab – how much land does a person need?” (1968), shot based on the story of Leo Tolstoy, and “San Domingo” (1970), inspired by the motives of Kleist’s novella.
Sieberberg achieved great popularity, shooting a German trilogy, which included the paintings Ludwig – Requiem to the Virgin King (1972), Carl May (1974) and
Hitler: A film from Germany (1978). The films are distinguished by a direct appeal to the viewer and the use of surreal techniques in the spirit of the Baroque-theatrical traditions of Wagner.
According to film critics, Sieberberg made a huge contribution to German culture, working on historical characters and understanding the central events of the XIX-XX centuries. His films attracted the attention of not only representatives of the field of cinema, but also historians, philosophers and cultural researchers. In 2003, an exhibition dedicated to the work of director Hans-Jürgen Sieberberg was held. It was organized at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and presented a full retrospective of all his films. /