About
His family emigrated to Uruguay in 1939. 1956 scholarship at the Hochschule der Kuenste (HDK) in Berlin, Germany. Between 1959 and 1964 he worked at the German TV channel Suedwestfunk, first as an assistant, later as a director. 1967/68 he was lecturer at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. Co-founder of the German distributor Filmverlag der Autoren. Since 1985 headmaster of the section Film- und Medienkunst at the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin.
Filmography
Camilo: The Long Road to Disobedience2008 · Director, Idea
Ein Fremder2001 · Director, Writer
Angesichts der Wälder1995 · Director
Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal1988 · Director, Screenplay
The Silence of the Poet1987 · Director, Screenplay
The Autograph1984 · Director, Writer, Set Decoration
Dear Mr. Wonderful1982 · Director
The Uprising1980 · Director, Writer, Set Decoration
David1979 · Director, Writer
Kadir1977 · Writer, Director, Producer
Es herrscht Ruhe im Land1975 · Director, Writer
Hauptlehrer Hofer1975 · Writer, Producer, Director
La Victoria1973 · Director, Writer
Shirley Chisholm for President1972 · Director
Jakob von Gunten1971 · Director, Writer
Die Sonne angreifen1971 · Director
Malatesta1970 · Director, Writer
Horror1969 · Director, Screenplay
Noon in Tunisia1969 · Director
Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen1968 · Director, Writer