Riad / Berlin (dpa) – When he was at liberty, knew him hardly anyone outside of Saudi Arabia. Only now, when he is in prison and gets beaten up by court order, track millions of people outside the Islamic Kingdom of the fate of the Saudi bloggers Raif Badawi.
Whether they are also interested in the philosophical and socio-political statements that had brought him in 2012 behind bars, shows this week, if at Ullstein under the title “1000 lashes” a book with texts of the blogger is published.
Some of translated from Arabic texts for readers have never been in Saudi Arabia, certainly not easy to understand. But some of his observations and thoughts also offer those who do not know the locked Kingdom, an interesting insight into a country that had been catapulted through the discovery of oil within a few decades from the Middle Ages to modernity.
European Middle Ages also attracts Badawi as a benchmark zoom – and to explain the powers of the clergy in Saudi Arabia. He writes: “Remember it once to the Middle Ages. Look, what state then European countries were! Thanks to the rule of the clergy, the so ruled in the name of God. “He urges his countrymen on to a fresh start, without the clergy. Without this new beginning “we simply continue to wallow in our ignorance. An ignorance that is already long no longer acceptable to a time when civilized nations enjoy life, “he added.
In a text of 2010 Badawi criticized, most Arab thinkers, it would have been out of fear made prior censorship habit around the core of their statements “herumzuwinden”. He writes: “The Arab societies must be interpreted as an ideology that every free thinking is a waste or exit from faith and morals.”
This is no idle mind game. Because of “apostasy” is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. This is also the reason why the Koran citations were in the book published by the journalist Constantin Schreiber book with texts omitted from Badawi. The 31-year-old blogger, the process will probably soon be reopened wants to offer any other attack. Had
A criminal court liberal activists in May 2014. “insulting Islam” to 1000 strokes, ten years imprisonment fined. 50 lashes were administered to him on January 9 in front of a mosque in the city of Jeddah. After the case had caused an international sensation, enforcement has been suspended due to health reasons. Badawi’s wife lives with their three children now as a refugee in Canada.
The narrow band whose income will benefit the majority of the family, but certainly has comic elements. With biting sarcasm Badawi himself makes fun of an Islamic televangelist, who had requested astronomers would have to be finally rejected in their place of Islamic law because of their skepticism about the experts. Badawi advises NASA after the discovery of “Sharia Astronomy”, their telescopes but to leave “and instead to benefit from the knowledge of our Shariah astronomers whose perspicacity and ingenuity exceeds the vision of this corrupt Nasa telescopes far”.
Imagine a 20-square-meter, neglected space in front. And then imagine you imagine this space to share with thirty men, which including murder, theft, drug trafficking and rape accused of minors. Imagine to sleep in the midst of them and under their constant gaze to undress, to eat, to cry.
The now world-famous blogger Raif Badawi lives in such a space, by its own account for now almost four years. The oppressive inside view of his detention in Saudi Arabia, he has his wife Ensaf Haidar portrayed on the phone. In great haste probably because the two can always call a few minutes with each other. From Badawi’s descriptions and reflections the preface of a book that was published this week in the German Ullstein Verlag was. It is called “1000 lashes. Because I say what I think, “and presents several texts of Internet activists -. Those for the arch-conservative country so subversive, long since deleted the internet blog entries, who allowed are offenders of Islam” Badawi enemy of the state and “
No air to breathe
That Badawi’s case ever got into the public around the world mobilized activists, and has recently been addressed by the German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel, as this in Riyadh Saudi Arabia’s King Salman met, is largely thanks to his wife. Ensaf Haidar, who lives with their three children in exile in Canada, has started from there Campaign «Free Raif Badawi”. For the book “1,000 lashes” she collaborated with the German journalist Constantin Schreiber. The narrow band gives an insight into the thoughts Badawi, a liberal young Saudis who did not want to come to terms with the intolerance and religious bigotry in his homeland. In 2006, he had founded the website so «Free Saudi liberals” and it condemned the strict interpretation of Islam, but above all the simplicity of the Wahhabi clergy.
“He who observes the Arab society, which is located in spectacular fashion show how this is groaning under the weight of the theocracy, groans and suffers, “Badawi writes in one of his texts. Every free thought will face a wave of hundreds of fatwas, there is freedom of expression but the air that need every thinker to breathe. Badawi’s biggest concern? That the brains of the Arab world will one day be all emigrate in search of fresher air.
pardon or at death?
2012 Badawi was finally arrested for “apostasy” , an offense which is normally punished in Saudi Arabia with death. The judge allowed this accusation that fall. Because “insult” of religion and rebellion against religious authoritarians, the family man but was sentenced to a prison term of 10 years, 1000 lashes and a fine equivalent to a quarter of a million francs. That Badawi never had in mind to insult Islam and more than once urged the beauty of the Quran, was not shared in court. On 9 January this year, just before Badawi’s 31st birthday – and only two days after the murders of cartoonists from ‘Charlie Hebdo’ by radical Islamists – corporal punishment was carried out publicly for the first time
A. secretly mitgeschnittenes video shows that it is not, as has often been falsely claimed, a whip, but a stick was used. Although the superficial damage at first glance but may be lower, but the deeper layers of skin are badly damaged. So were the same, the first 50 of 1000 blows an ordeal, the further execution of the sentence had to be postponed several times since then. Meanwhile, the case is even to be renegotiated, which is quite uncertain whether perhaps still needs to be counted on the death penalty with a pardon from the king or.
hero or traitor
The publication of “1000 lashes” will arrive safely well in German-speaking audience, it proves nothing but the gloomy picture of what is commonly has of Saudi Arabia. Less likely it will impress the authorities in Riyadh. The Foreign Office even advised against the publication of the book, as it could have counterproductive effects. Unlike in Europe, in Saudi Arabia, not everyone sees long in Badawi a hero for freedom of expression. For many, he is little more than a traitor and betrayer. As Ensaf Haidar again recently publicly asked for mercy for her husband, one of her followers tweeted sarcastically that the tender was floated on the lobbies in the West probably nothing.
How much flow from the suffering of others should in their own creative work? A question that arises in the quiet drama “Everything Will Be Fine” Wim Wenders -. And himself
TIME ONLINE: In the film caused the young writer Tomas a car accident in which a young boy dies. In legal terms, it is not your fault, but he can not cope with what has happened. His work as a writer gets better after the accident, and it is implied that has inspired him this terrible experience. To what extent one may have other for their own creative process experience, in particular through painful experiences?
Wim Wenders: This is a question that is rarely found in the cinema or even answered. When it is said: “Based on a true story,” then what about the people to whom this true story happened? Offers which, to recognize itself, or oppresses it, the more likely? Writers and filmmakers, the issue of responsibility must face alike. Someone something happens, sometimes something sorrowful, and we make it a fiction. Then what is more important: the real man or our processing? Tomas takes a long time and needs to be shaken until it his responsibility the real man confronts. Have You have yourself several times already dealt extensively with this issue of personal responsibility, for example, than in 1980 Lightning Over Water rotating
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Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders is one of the most important German filmmakers. He is one of the representatives of the New German Cinema and established the 1971 film publishing the authors. This year’s Berlinale honored the 69-year-olds with the Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement and a retrospective of ten films, but abbildete only a fraction of his work. Wenders turned both successful feature films such as Alice in the Cities (1974), Paris, Texas (1984), The sky over Berlin (1987) Do not Come Knocking (2005) as well as documentation, such as Buena Vista Social Club (1999) or Salt of the Earth (2014). In 2011 he made a documentary on Pina on the choreographer Pina Bausch and used here for the first time 3-D. He was so excited about the possibilities that he set himself henceforth to work exclusively with this technique. The most recent result, Everything Will Be Fine , ran out of competition at the Berlinale.
to film “Everything Will Be Fine”
The writer Tomas is not at fault in a tragic accident in which a child dies. But he falls into a deep hole. The relationship with his girlfriend breaks up the load. Tomas saves himself in his writing. But he can to process experiences that involve the suffering of others? The film follows 14 years of Tomas’ attempt to give life meaning again
Wenders. I have every Day asked whether we should continue. I myself would actually prefer stopped at any time, I found we were about to cross borders. But above all, Nicks doctors kept saying: “The work is good for him, makes more if you stop spinning, it pulls the rug from under our feet!”. So we kept going. Our shoot was actually more of a dying as a filmmaking. This was of course an extreme case, but a case where the person wanted it plays the movie. And I find absolutely necessary if one converts a real destiny in a fiction.
TIME ONLINE: Everything Will Be Fine , nothing is said about whether the mother of the child fatalities Tomas’ reads novels. One can only imagine how it feels hardly to read a book that served as the own suffering accidental death of a child as inspiration. Did you not speculate?
Wenders: I wanted to just not as explicitly name. I would rather that the audience asks this question, as our characters that they answer.
TIME ONLINE: Does the phrase “Time heals all wounds”?
Wenders: In our case it is not the time, but the attention to the other, which brings healing.
TIME ONLINE: There is this idea that something can find artistic expression only when inside the artist’s something going on. Does this also mean that the artist felt something inside him not only, but also must keep until he can express artistically it eventually?
Wenders: I do not know a garrulous writer. And I know a lot, also very familiar: Paul Auster, Peter Carey, Sam Shepard and best Peter Handke. They all wear a certain mystery in itself. You can feel that they absorb much of what they see in themselves, process, and because of it certainly not spill the beans are equal. In order to incorporate life in their writing, they can not and must not be a small-talk artist. They are also less willing to talk about things out. Writers are probably more thoughtful people.
TIME ONLINE: You yourself are an artist. How do you feel about that?
Wenders: I’m no Master. I write a lot better than that I’m talking about. Maybe this is something typically male. I am always amazed how often and how much women exchange ideas. They bring even heavy things just immediately on the table. Then it must be spoken and quiet twice as long as actually needed. Rather applies to men: if we have said, written or texting it, it’s out and completed. We do not talk about it again. We are much more reticent. And our Tomas is one of the wortkargsten.
TIME ONLINE: The work of the director, I ask myself, among other things, but extremely difficult before: you have to enter listen all the time in itself, there a thing to come and but then communicate on an ongoing because you really have to tell the others what to do. If this many speeches about their artistic intentions difficult?
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The film director and screenwriter Helmut Dietl’s dead. He died in the immediate family in his Munich apartment. In November 2013 he made his lung disease publicly. Companions such as Mario Adorf and Veronica Ferres show dismay at the loss.
Helmut Dietl at the age of 70 years died
cult director had been suffering from lung cancer in 2013
Senta Berger: “I lost a friend”
On Death Dietl first reported the “time” on their online site. Dietl had with his health problems for some time. Back in 2007, the filmmakers had a stroke. In addition, he fell ill in early October 2013 lung cancer. On the edge of the Bambi Awards in Berlin in November Dietl said his chances of recovery would be in the more than ten percent. “Considering how much I smoked, it’s almost a miracle that so long good
is gone,” said Dietl. He added that he had stopped smoking in 2007
Mario Adorf. “I owe him a lot!”
They worked closely together: Mario Adorf and Helmut Dietl Two of the biggest roles in his life owes the acting legend Munich Filmmaker: The six-part television series “Kir Royal” In 1986 embodied it the glue manufacturer Heinrich Haffenloher, in “Rossini – The murderous question , who with whom slept “(1996), the celebrity host Rossini.” Unfortunately, not entirely unexpected, and yet this news hits me hard because I have not wanted to have true, “writes the longtime companion in a statement to ABC Online.
“Helmut Dietl was my avowed favorite director, I have very much to be grateful, because of our cooperation were two of the most vivid characters from Dietl’s cheerful and furious world out The almost legendary General Heinrich Haffenloher and the celebrity host Rossini. For me unforgettable days and weeks extremely harmonious creation. “Until recently he had hoped to be able to work together again:” It should not be He is all very missed “
Senta Berger:” I’m losing a friend. A great pain “
affected
Deep responded actress Senta Berger on the death of the star director. “Although I have to believe it, I do not believe it. I’ll have to get used to the idea that Helmut Dietl is no longer alive. If you can ever get used to a thought of that, “she told ABC Online She emphasized.” We all lose irreplaceable artist and I lose a friend A big pain. “.
In his films, the artist Helmut Dietl will live and always discover new from every generation. “Is that a consolation?” Asked Berger and stressed. “Yes. Even if me this thought does not comfort today. We will all miss him. He is missing.” Berger had, inter alia, in the cult series “Kir Royal” directed . played by Dietl
Veronica Ferres: “Get him be eternally grateful”
Also actress Veronica Ferres, who had a relationship from 1990 to 1999 with Dietl stressed: “Helmut’s death shocked me deeply.” On request of FOCUS Online she said: “He was a great role model for me, especially when it came to live his dreams and to be swayed by anyone in this and for many other things I will eternally grateful. be. “Her thoughts APPLYING his wife and children, whom they” for the difficult time of sorrow, strength and love people “want on their side.” Helmut is in our memories, our thoughts and continue to live in his superb films forever. Rest in peace, dear Helmut, “said Ferres further.
Michael” Bully “Herbig plays in Dietl’s last film,” Zettl “the leading role. On Facebook, the actor adopted as follows: “Dear Helmut, the phone has not stopped ringing. But I’m not going to write you an obituary … I’d rather write to you personally! I need you probably did not say how incredibly sad I am. You were and are my hero. When I learned of your departure, wept the sky above Schwabing … it rained even. Rightly, rain alone would also not befitting. I miss you already infinite … man, the friend and the brilliant filmmaker Helmut Dietl! . Your Bully “
Armin Rohde wrote goodbye a few lines on twitter:
“The will is done, death comes by itself”
Yet the end of 2014 had Dietl in an interview with the people magazine “Bunte” said. “The cancer has become smaller” How good this news is, it was the creator of the cult series such as “Monaco Franze” and “Kir Royal” the reader, however, in the dark, because he said Also: “The will is done, death will come easy.” Before death he had no fear of dying before
Dietl enjoyed great success with television series like “Monaco Franze” or “Kir Royal. “and movies such as” Schtonk “or” Rossini “.
He is survived by his wife, Tamara, with whom he had the daughter Serafina Marie. In addition, Dietl has two other grown children.
The material for his films he found in the Bussi-Bussi-Gesellschaft his native Munich. But Helmut Dietl was also interested in the aspirations of the Germans and the celebrity milieu of the Berlin Republic.
By Bernd Graff
In one of his last major interview since Helmut Dietl met his almost certain fate with twinkling melancholy. Lung cancer had been established in October 2013 in him a month later he gave the interview: “Cancer – having just what I needed,” he said
But as casually as appeal here was this. diagnosis at all. This is because the doctors had only a rather less given to him as ten percent chance of a cure, he himself took the classic cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments very promising. But was surprised him the diagnosis is not. Although he had long since ceased smoking, but he had probably smoked “over a million Gitanes” in his life. “It’s almost a miracle that it’s been so long gone well.” Dietl there was not even seventy years old,
Gitanes, those were the cigarettes in corn paper, the casually stuck so incomprehensible to the lip -. Back in the late sixties, as a French Savoir Vivre Paris May, the student unrest, hip so incredible in Germany.
Helmut Dietl, born on June 22, 1944 in Bad Wiessee / Upper Bavaria, who grew up in Munich, was here on Schwabinger Grammar School High School made and then theater studies and art history studies, rather as though to himself, he made no statements
Munich experienced at that time demos, rebellion, insurrection and upheavals of all kinds. The “New German Cinema” was invented there and rolled all cinematic traditions around. Rainer Werner Fassbinder made “action-theater” for a whole new audience. The musical “Hair / Hair” at Theater an der Briennerstraße provocative completely naked performers.
At the same time, the Republic discussed the movies of sex Spotter Oswalt Kolle, also in Munich residential communities and municipalities, the revolution was proclaimed – thanks to the birth control pill freely available so that the sexual revolution meant Werner Enke and Uschi Glas in the Munich Film “Substance baby” of bourgeois society the mirror before
He had something. the student movement was missing
And in this complex situation of change and trying meets the Gitanes smoking Helmut Dietl, a young man with something that actually completely lacks the bright, but also bullheaded agitators of the student movement in Munich: Dietl has really However humor.
His comic talent he could live out later. For Helmut Dietl began as a manager in television and later became assistant director of the Munich Chamber of games. His first production for the board games was “Let Me ma’s”. He then moved on to a free production company, where he “The wrong weight” and “The Conquest of the Citadel” served as dramaturg and producer, among other things Bernhard Wicki.
“German answer to Woody Allen”
It was only with the legendary “Munich stories” to people from his neighborhood, so to speak, debuted Dietl from 1973 in the TV evening program as a director. Finally introduced him the TV series “I Do not Know”, the “It Can Only Get Worse” In 1979 even came out under the title as a movie.
The critics celebrated Dietl and his excellent with the German Film Award plant as the ” German answer to Woody Allen. “
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Helmut Dietl has in the Bavarian soul looked like no one else. Companion as Senta Berger, Bully Herbig, Michaela May and Konstantin Wecker remember.
Because Dietl finally wanted to have something different than Munich around him, – “always the same faces, the same sayings” – he went one time to Los Angeles, but soon returned to Germany, from 1983 to the ten-part ARD evening series “Monaco Franze– the eternal Stenz” turn to
That was his final breakthrough.. This highly successful production was also in the main program of the second Austrian television and in the third program of the Bavarian television and was in the repetition in the prime time of ARD in 1987 to the summer hit of the year.
After that, the smash hit “Kir Royal followed “a TV-six parter that Dietl turned for the WDR. Unforgotten this great-Munich stories about the gossip columnists “Baby Schimmerlos” by Franz Xaver Kroetz are inimitable embodies.
Actually Dietl portrayed itself but the fact itself. For Kroetz was like his Munich director a probe in the meat of the Munich philistines and wannabes, someone who looked closely and immediately realized who he was dealing with. Dietl and Schimmerlos were anything but Schimmerlos.
“Kir Royal” of course got the Grimme Prize, something would public broadcaster did not produce even today. The WDR wanted to work with Dietl – “a fluke” – continue even necessarily, but he saw – as the Süddeutsche Zeitung confessed 1991 – in the “Television no longer his home” and declared that the future thematic not wanting to be limited to biographies from the Bavarian region.
And now the Dietl spacecraft close observation
bittersweet charm
took off even more.
Two years he wrote the screenplay for his first 1992 movie realized. “Schtonk” he said – and again it came to journalism, this time by the satire about the forged Hitler diaries, which transposed Dietl with Uwe Ochsenknecht, Götz George and Christiane Hoerbiger in the lead roles
Dietl wanted to. realize “Schtonk” no documentary approach to the star affair, but his satire make a “film about Germany” and the “aspirations of the Germans.” And consisted of “the impossible to make the incredible true.”
He was a “virtuoso of the background sense, the bittersweet charm and a sometimes biting sarcasm,” wrote the Focus at that time. He was even more so after his second feature film “Rossini or the murderous question, who with whom fell” out in 1997.
These further with a German Film Award for Best Film of the Year and won three prizes excellent social satire circled back to the Bussi-Bussi Society and Filmschickeria his hometown.
Four marriages and a long liaison
the end of 1995 had Dietl signed a five-year contract with the private Sat.1, through which he lent his writing, directing and Executive Producer to the discovery and promotion of young talent as well as “entertaining quality programs.” For the private channel he also produced Jo Baier’s acclaimed psychological profile “Wambo” for the murdered Bavarian People’s actor Walter Sedlmayr.
With the theatrical comedy “the Looking for and the Finding of Love” returned Dietl 2005, together with the screenwriter Patrick Süskind a very personal adaptation of “Orpheus and Eurydice” -Stoffes as tragicomedy. Moritz Bleibtreu plays the suicidal protagonist Mimi, who acts as Dietl’s alter ego. The critics were here but for rather moderate, the filmdienst spoke of a “. Pseudo-classical, a little sedate dance on a long extinct volcano”
Dietl was married several times: first with the journalist Katharina Wichmann, then to actress Barbara Valentin, then with the Frenchwoman Denise Cheyresy. He then spent a decade with the actress Veronica Ferres – “My Vroni” – dating, which also appeared in several of his films. A fourth marriage ended Dietl 2002 with the director and film producer Tamara Duve, a daughter of SPD politician frankness Duve, the daughter Serafina Marie brought in July 2003 to the world.
Taken from the rejection
Although Dietl’s work revolved around Munich, he lived some years in Berlin-Mitte. It was here that in 2012 the theater play “Zettl,” a parody of the policy operating capital, with Bully Herbig, Ulrich Tukur, Harald Schmidt, Senta Berger, Dieter Hildebrandt, Karoline Herfurth, Dagmar Manzel, Sunnyi Melles, Gert Voss, Christopher Sweet, Götz George and Hanns Hisser Although high-level occupied, but panned almost unanimous critical acclaim.
The story of the ambitious driver in celebrity milieu of the “Berlin Republic”, which rises to the chief editor of a new tabloid magazine caught, not really, and was largely ignored by the public.
Helmut Dietl reported at the time how much the rejection met him. And indicated as well that there could be a link between that injury and his illness.
On March 30, 2015 Helmut Dietl has succumbed to his serious illness.
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Helmut Dietl has looked like no other in the Bavarian soul. Companion as Senta Berger, Bully Herbig, Michaela May and Konstantin Wecker remember.
He loved women, strutted before all in white. Helmut Dietl repeatedly succeeded, must be available on the company level. Now the director has died at 70 years old. He had
The last two major appearances in Berlin. Mid-November 2014 Helmut Dietl received another honorary “Bambi” for his life’s work. The still elegant septuagenarian with graying mane and beard looked course of already marked as bloated by drugs.
But Dietl, who had exactly one year before made public his lung disease in a “time” -Gespräch with Giovanni di Lorenzo, tried again to be humorous and self-deprecating in his acceptance speech. He had since his youth smoked approximately 960,000 cigarettes and survived the
“If you have again to award a life price in ten years – I’m ready.”.
Open and become vulnerable
More than drawn from life by then already inevitable end, Dietl has acted in May 2014 Berlin Tempodrom. Also, since he got a lifetime achievement award, the Golden Lola German Film Academy, an institution from which he had earlier resigned in protest. Dietl made, the Lola in hands, the matter now no nonsense.
Instead, he said in a witty as well as self-confident metierklugen, live show short speech, the price probably throw a better light on the distinguishing as to the award winners. He then thanked, who was otherwise particularly sentimental averse, his fourth wife Tamara: “. The fact that I am here, I am indebted for their care”
To open, so vulnerable, he had become: the largest Filmsatiriker, Germany has had since 1945 – or rather had since left the country since 1933, the German-Jewish spirits. Filmmakers such as Max Ophuls and also the young Billy Wilder.
Of course, an artist hides sometimes in his characters to reveal or they are in the mask only the sharper, mocking or loving can. Even with Helmut Dietl, who in his Munich apartment, accompanied by his family, died of his cancer, threw on Monday afternoon many of his dazzling film and television creatures at the same time the shadow of its inventor.
The Münchner Freiheit
One thinks first of his somewhat g’scherten Stenze and playboy pictures: the characters of “Munich stories” that also up riding 40 years ago before as Baiuvarii cowboys Ludwig and Leopold street on horses that do not Bierkutschergäule were. A touch of Western blew because the I-san-me-Gemütigkeit, it was Schwabing conditions and towards that place that really the “Münchner Freiheit” means. So they rode, if they do not level with a few jaunty rabbits slipped in open Amischlitten through life. So easy and yet grounded as soon the legendary Monaco Franze in the eponymous television comedy series in the form of actor Helmut Fischer.
The Monaco Franze was in 1983 as Frauenaufreißer a Filou, Strizzi, Stenz (louder today extinct terms), which hardly made in the bottom of a well “Tatort” Bangles Munich society soles of your boots dirty. A madcap flat. Just another word for the museum of frivolous passions.
For Dietl this particular Italianate Munich was in fact a soul mate, and as Helmut Fischer 1997 at cancer died and was then immortalized as a memorial to those Münchner Freiheit No one could have guessed that a similar fate and a half decades later his director would meet. Where the monument now is still pending, but will surely come.
A southerly Flaneur type
Helmut Dietl, however, was more, much more than a local or regional publication only. Even if he, who was born in 1944 in Bad Wiessee, the Bavarian with all the charm and all occasional Grantigkeit quite unmistakable adhered – Helmut Dietl was much more of a southerly Flaneur type, outside an Italian-Californian mixture. No Bierdimpfl, but one who loved women and wine and earlier like all in white, in linen or silk, stalked, when he had his female partners or wives on the side. These included more than “sex bomb” because traded as a full artist involved in the nationwide mid sixties Barbara Valentin and later Veronika developed by him respectable actress Ferres. (Dietl: “the Vroni”)
He himself came from so called humble background, his father died from alcohol early gastric cancer. To the film came Helmut Dietl after high school and a broken Theatre Studies program, according to assistant at the Munich games and as a cameraman. Reüssiert he is the Bavarian television first as director for the evening program. With a nose for serial stories and as an inventor probably the continuation Comedy on German screens -. Beyond “odds and ends”
No career in Hollywood
In the 1980s, he was for a time also to Los Angeles. To a Hollywood career à la Billy Wilder – who was one of his few role models, except Chaplin and Karl Valentin – it’s never come. Although his film satire “Schtonk!” (1992), a satire of the media scandal surrounding the forged Hitler diaries with Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Harald Juhnke, indeed, would have won almost an Oscar.
Of course outshines his best movie almost everything there were German comedies ever. This was “Rossini” in 1997, as did the “Monaco Franze” written together with Patrick Süskind. Dietl, a highly ironic Sarkast not let many people really close to get close to him – but much shyer people, younger writer Patrick Süskind was before his worldwide hit “Perfume” a friend in Munich. An intimate confidant. And in “Rossini” have Dietl and Süskind both their soulmate images, perhaps even doppelganger designed.
“Rossini” was again the escalation of the trenchant Munich scene life in the television series “Kir Royal” in 1986, then with the furious Franz Xaver Kroetz as reporter Boulevard Baby Schimmerlos. Film, actors, authors and wannabes operate in Schwabing Nobel Italian named “Rossini”; among them the director Uhu Gypsies, played by Götz George, and producer Oskar Reiter (Heiner Lauterbach). Gypsy was more of Dietl, in the real producer Bernd Eichinger rider, but both together vest as it were a double Dietl.
These Veronika Ferres was called as Snow White Virgin Fatal in the game, and although successful, but sensitive Bound writers (Joachim Krol) reflected the touchingly comic portrait also the co-author Süskind. On a small scale, the local scene in reflection on film myths, love dramas, society antics was because of the pubs story great art to the world stage.
play
Had it in New York, one would have thought Dietl, choose an alias Woody Allen. Even the American Grand Master would not that funny, bile funny, not a brilliant success.
“Zettl” as a swan song
About the like has Dietl with his “Zettl” 2012 as Berlin film no longer nailed it. The satire on a cinematic animated refined, future science fiction Berlin halfway manhattan magical setting was not well received by the majority of film critics. All compared “Zettl” – with Bully Herbig instead of one aged Kroetz in the lead role – as always using “Kir Royal”. It was the flash story, including a Governing Mayor as umoperiertem man, also a melancholy tale: a lost Berlin. Dietl’s swan song.
Baby Schimmerlos, Conny Scheffer and the other: from the films by Helmut Dietl
Helmut Dietl was one of those artists whose work has become so popular that you can throw each other dialogues it is. Just think of the part played by Mario Adorf Rhine-General Henry Haffenloher, the zubrummt being played by Franz Xaver Kroetz Society reporter Baby Schimmerlos: “I shit you something of my money on that you do not have a moment’s peace.” Never is brutal and at the same time set the scene funnier than in this episode was the only six-part, but never enough to praise television series “Kir Royal” the power of money on German television. With her Dietl wrote 1986 television history.
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However, as a repeat offender, because previously he had another series successes with “Monaco Franze – Der ewige Stenz” The (1983) ” I Do not Know “(1979) or” Munich Stories “(1974). All these series had their hearts in Munich, the city where Dietl was not born – he came in 1944 in Bad Wiessee to the world – but the reborn appeared on the screens through him. In Munich Dietl had studied theater staged and finally turned upside down all our ideas of what can be accomplished German television.
lighting and dialogue Art
Going to the movies he came late as director until 1992, but then the same with “Schtonk!” The grotesque about the forged Hitler diaries, for which he composed was a star-studded cast, the “Kir Royal” was not inferior: Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hoerbiger, Harald Juhnke, Ulrich Mühe. Dietl wrote the screenplay himself as usual and made from the true one crazy story that you almost forget the wretchedness of the original scandal liked – so playful bandaged his actors. The title of the onomatopoeia quote from Charlie Chaplin’s “Great Dictator” was just icing on the film-historical satire that actually international demands more than enough. “Schtonk!” Is one of the German films for the cinema history.
Director Helmut Dietl died
“Rossini”, the successor in 1997, it is also and especially because working here with a light guide, such as had not been seen since Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon”. Once again, here is the high society Dietl’s theme, once wrote Patrick Süskind together with him the script (as in “Kir Royal” and already each episode of “All normal Wansinns”), and that the shy Süskind himself the model for the offers from Joachim Krol played writer Jakob Windisch, makes a significant part of the appeal of this melancholy movie out of a dialogue feat is as usual in recent German cinema only Romuald Karmakar’s “Manila” (which also includes a writer, Bodo Kirchhoff, wrote the screenplay ).
What a pearl necklace
The last three films Dietl failed, however: at the box office, but also twice on own attempt own ironic recipe for success always continue writing. “Late Night” (1999) and “Zettl” (2012) reintroduced again in each case in the media industry, the latter even as a direct continuation of “Kir Royale”, the Franz Xaver Kroetz but had refused to happiness. In between lay with “the Looking for and the Finding of Love” from 2005, again with Süskind together spelled quietly composers tragedy that had the makings of a great throw, but did not want to come close to the exuberance of the previous Dietl movies and therefore did not receive the attention that she deserves.
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But that does not diminish the importance Dietl and his work, for he has been a director such a pearl necklace boast, as in that less than a quarter of a century of “Munich stories” to “Rossini”? Now Helmut Dietl has died after a long illness, of course, in Munich. If there were analogous to the state funeral something like a city funeral, he deserved it.
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No one television made him, and also to the cinema, he brought two masterpieces: The director, screenwriter and Producer Helmut Dietl died at the age of 70 years in Munich
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Helmut Dietl’s dead. The late filmmaker Helmut Dietl was an exceptional talent in the German film industry. When it comes to entertaining critique of society, to get his works hardly over.
Helmut Dietl at the age of 70 years died
“Munich stories “,” Monaco Franze “,” Kir Royal “- to Dietl not passed
cult director suffering from lung cancer
The writer-director Helmut Dietl ( 1944-2015), the German film industry lost one of its greatest artists. Since 2013 the German Woody Allen suffered from lung cancer. He had the rare talent, intelligent and social media satire to tell entertaining and take it to the general public. Of the common people from the “Münchner stories” to crowd of “Kir Royale”, the astute look at “his” milieu was Dietl’s trademark, the filmmaker was always biting over the years – “At the time of ‘Monaco Franze’ I liked the people still prefer “he said in an interview with the” time “.
” Monaco Franze “
Dietl was in 1974 with the” Munich listen up stories ” with the series “Monaco Franze – Der ewige Stenz” he then in 1983 into one of the most well-known filmmaker in Germany. The focus of the series is the police commissioner Franz Münchinger aka “Monaco Franze (Helmut Fischer). Franze is an arrant playboy and womanizer, but in a loving marriage with the antique dealer Annette von Soettingen (Ruth Maria Kubitschek) married. The ten episodes of Franzes act mostly trying to conceal his affairs or to avoid contact with Annette’s friends from the “better society”. The series was produced by BR nationwide shown by the ARD and repeated again and again because of their popularity. In addition Dietl also died in 1997, leading man fishing with “Monaco Franze” had his breakthrough.
“Kir Royal”
Even with ” Kir Royal “(1986) remained loyal Dietl Munich as a subject. In the satirical TV series of the filmmakers took the Munich “Evening News” and their gossip reporter Michael Graeter targeted. Six episodes long accompanied Dietl Boulevard journalists Baby Schimmerlos (Franz Xaver Kroetz) on his adventures in the high society of the Bavarian capital. The winner of the Grimme Award Series is counted today among the highlights of Dietl’s work. With his last movie “Zettl” (2012) Dietl returned to the subject. After it had been prior to disagreements with Kroetz, assumed here Michael “Bully” Herbig the lead role of Max Zettl, a Bavarian chauffeur who makes an online gossip reporter career in Berlin. Building on the success of “Kir Royal” late sequel was not able, even with the critics fell through the strip. Dietl was under the “malice, which spilled over this film [...] suffered severely,” as he later told the “time”.
“Schtonk” “Schtonk”
“Kir Royal” Dietl focused on cinema and celebrated the same in 1992 with the media satire one of his greatest successes. The film focuses detail exactly on the scandal of the forged Hitler diaries, the Konrad Kujau had the magazine “Stern” sold in the 1980s. “Schtonk!” Was awarded the German Film Award and the Guild Film Award in Gold and even nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film.
“Rossini”
Dietl’s wave of success came in 1997 with “Rossini – or the murderous question of who slept with whom” on. The plot of the comedy is located in Munich’s media scene, which meets in the restaurant “Rossini”. The director Uhu Gypsy (Götz George) and the producer Oskar Reiter (Heiner Lauterbach) try the reclusive writer Jakob Windisch (Joachim Krol) to talk to a film adaptation of his bestseller “The Lorelei”. Riders compete besides still with the poet Bodo Kriegnitz (Jan Josef Liefers) to the beautiful Valerie (Gudrun Landgrebe). “Rossini” belonged with 3.2 million visitors in Germany’s most successful films of the year 1997 and was formally showered with awards, including the Bavarian and German Film Award and the Golden Screen.
” the Looking for and the Finding of Love “
The time of the great popular success was for Dietl for” Rossini “already over, unlike the TV satire” Late Show “(1999 ) was the tragicomedy “the Looking for and the Finding of Love” (2005) nevertheless still well received by most critics. In his settlement with the love Dietl draws on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Must here it is the composer Mimi Nachtigal (Moritz Bleibtreu) who commits after the separation of the singer Venus Morning Star (Alexandra Maria Lara) in Greece suicide and in the underworld of the advances of the two sexes messenger god Hermes (Heino Ferch) resist. Venus comes meanwhile, despite a new relationship not about Mimi away and eventually travels to the underworld to rescue him. “I want to keep a plea for it again and again with love to try, no matter what bad experiences one has already done with her,” said the three times married Dietl in an interview with “Dirk Jasper Movies Encyclopedia”. Because: “Love is the ultimate weapon against death.”
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star director Helmut Dietl’s dead. He died at the age of 70 years in the immediate family in his Munich apartment. Just last year Dietl had received a “Bambi” for his life’s work
He was one of the most important directors of Germany. Helmut Dietl is dead, he died at the age of 70 years. in Munich, as immediate family circle of the German Press Agency bestätigten.Nach information of “time-line” his family was with him when he died in his Munich apartment on Monday afternoon.
years ago, almost half had once heavy smokers his severe lung disease made public. “Considering how much I smoked, it’s almost a miracle that it’s been so long gone well,” he said in an interview at the time of “time.”
Circa “960,000 cigarettes” has he survived
Just last year, however, when he received the “Bambi” for his life’s work and the audience celebrated him, he had said that he had the 960,000 cigarettes he had smoked in his life, survived – and can now take advantage of the Lifetime Achievement award. “If you have a life again to forgive Price in ten years – I’m ready.”
Dietl was in the 80s with the famous series “Monaco Franze” and “Kir Royal”. His best-known films include “Schtonk”, a parody of the publication of the forged Hitler diaries, and the comedy “Rossini or the murderous question, who with whom slept.”
Bully Herbig-bye with personal words
It is with great enthusiasm and irony born in Upper Bavaria Bad Wiessee Dietl revealed human weaknesses and illuminated social curiosities. His colleague Michael “Bully” Herbig, who played the leading role in Dietl’s last film, “Zettl”, turned on his Facebook page with moving words to his friend: “I have you probably do not say how incredibly sad I am,” he wrote. “You were and are my hero. When I learned of your departure, wept the sky above Schwabing … it rained even. Rightly, rain alone would also not befitting. “
Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) paid tribute Dietl, the holder of the Bavarian Order of Merit, as” one of the biggest German directors and screenwriters. ” He was an institution. “He Bavaria and Munich looked with his works deep into the soul, creating incomparable characters.” The Bavarian Art minister Ludwig Spaenle (CSU) called Dietl a “great chronicler of the soul of Bavaria”.
Dietl was in fourth marriage with his wife Tamara married. The couple has a daughter. Is from a previous relationship, his son David, who as director (“King of Germany”) originates in the footsteps of his father kicked.
Dusseldorf. In Kiel “Tatort” cleared on Sunday evening, the Commissioners Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt on the murder of a pedophile Hartz IV recipients in Gaarden problem area. The thriller was a lesson on the social consequences of neglect and emotional neglect. By Martina Stoecker
The best pictures
Scandinavian cool effect of the Crime of Kiel. Images from the bird’s eye view and close-ups showing the whole desolation of the neighborhood Gaarden. Visually, a strong “crime scene”. The scene in which Commissioner Borowski (Axel Milberg) is bullying and extortion, can include a soccer field with the youth gang that the main suspect Timo Scholz (Bruno Alexander), is impressive and plays in the symbolism on the domestication of wild animals to.
What lasting effect
The Writers Eva and Volker A. Zahn have been inspired by a real case from Berlin. There was a problem area at a similar “youth club”. The man abused a boy who killed him then. The solution in this case is not so easy, but the subject of neglect and indifference to sexual abuse is strong. “Borowski and the children of Gaarden” has become more a social study as a thriller. And the film is also the better social drama and touching describes the circumstances in which the future of children is lost: a mixture of ignorance, lack of attention and feeling cold. It plays to a place where little money is available, but all animals – and many are these important than the people around them. And the film shows young people and children, the unloved grow because of social neglect and therefore not perceive sexual abuse as such, because it simply means a form of attention for it.
The lustigeste dialog
A dog barks. Borowski to a boy: “Do you have a dog?” “No, this is my brother.” “And your brother is barking?”
The one knows yet
Tom Wlaschiha plays the opaque district police Thorsten noise. “Rauschi” knows Commissioner Sarah Brandt (Sibel Kekilli) nor from their youth, on a personal level is played long with the suspicion of the police. The native axis embodied in the series “Game of Thrones” killer Jaquen H’ghar and is in the fifth season it again.
The most touching monologue
“The number one rule in Gaarden is: you can either do wrong or very wrong a right does not exist here.”. Not only Borowski is impressed by so much worldly wisdom of teens Timo Scholz.
What bothers you?
Borowski is always a softie under the “crime scene” -Ermittlern but in this sociogram he overdoes it a bit with his insightful tour and slogans like “blow-off is not the answer.” Unintentionally funny: Policeman “rauschi” runs in his uniform and sunglasses on the streets, as if he were a member of the “Village People”. And in the end it is in spite of the moving thread a bit lengthy
Who convinced
The young actors who embody the members of the youth gang.? – Especially Amar Saaifan, who plays the murderer Leon. Kekilli and Wlaschiha have a very strong scene when the Commissioner with the colleagues “Truth or Dare” plays – as it shows that is what is behind the sunglasses
The blues has become in this guitar grandmaster way of life, in the strictest sense of the word. Now celebrating Eric Clapton, who coined the popular music like few, his 70th birthday.
By Thomas Steinfeld
Eric Clapton will be available in a few weeks on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall in London, seven nights in a row, it will be there to celebrate two anniversaries.
The one applies the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on this stage: First he was there occurred the Yardbirds in December 1964 one of the many British groups of the time, which brought the blues to Europe from America had and then later became louder and more compact and merged with the English folk music, give it back to America. The other is the seventieth birthday of guitarist and singer who falls on 30 March, on this Monday so.
And as unlikely as it may have been at times, especially of alcohol and hard drugs because that Eric Clapton experienced that day, so timeless and of course the music will be that he will perform on those evenings.
One of his most successful songs of the eighties called “Forever Man”, and if the title also did not mean it, so he has long been assumed programmatic character
A musician is there, the Eric Clapton more honored than all the other black singer and guitarist who accompanied him throughout his life. Robert Johnson a slain in 1938 Rover, with the Blues began as a composer closed form.
The music of this man from Mississippi, explains Eric Clapton in a book dedicated to his idol, was the “most powerful cry of pain “(” the most powerful cry “), which you can find in the human voice. From the pain, as he is the Blues underlying all the ballads, the ubiquitous farewell song is the largest part of the music Eric Clapton, of “No Reason to Cry” (1976) to the ballad “Tears in Heaven” (1992), up to ” River Runs Deep “(2010), one of the most laconic small works of JJ Cale.
Teenager Fury in sovereign purer form
Eric Clapton has sublimated the pain. He’s had it, which is not a contradiction, made civil, and often gave him resistance elegance. His soft voice helped him.
This is true even for his seemingly wildest moments, for the long solos at Cream about, the trio, in which first the conversion of the popular Music took a matter for virtuosos. As Cream 2005 occurred again at the Royal Albert Hall, the youthful fervor was to experience in sovereign purer form.
Eric Clapton is a master on the guitar, one of the largest, which in the history of popular is music. But he shows his mastery quite rare. He retreats to his taste intoned songs, he lets his game, which is difficult, easy and casual look. Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall will be in May, so it is likely not be the last. The blues musician has become in this way of life, in the strictest sense of the word.
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He is the father of five children and some of the most successful blues songs in music history – Eric Clapton. The Briton is celebrating his 70th birthday on 30 March. The life of a rock star could also be an issue for the teaching of social studies, or for the field of psychology.
In the age of retirement he stands before the release of a new album. Come with “Forever Man” previously unpublished works by “Slowhand” together with old hits like “Tears In Heaven” on May 11 in Germany on the market.
“I Shot The Sheriff”, “Lay Down Sally, “” Wonderful Tonight “
Eric Clapton is one of the biggest names a generation of musicians, as they may not come back into this density. He has sold 129 million albums and worked with all the greats of his time: Frank Zappa and The Beatles, with Aretha Franklin, Mark Knopfler, or Bob Dylan. Clapton created hit songs for decades evergreens: “I Shot The Sheriff” is one of them, but also the country hit “Lay Down Sally” and the ballad “Wonderful Tonight”. The trade magazine “Rolling Stone” put him in 2003 to second place in the 100 greatest guitarists of all time behind Jimi Hendrix and before Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
At 17, he joined the band “The Roosters” to
The music influenced Clapton’s life significantly, since he joined at the age of 17 years the band The Roosters. But the alcohol influenced the musicians. “The problem was that I desperately hung back in the bottle and had practically lost all control over my drinking behavior,” Clapton admitted in his autobiography “My Life”, which he published in 2007. It took several detoxification treatments to rid Eric Clapton from a drunken stupor, as he reveals in the rare relentless self-description.
But nothing took as much influence on the man many call “guitar god” as the tragic death of his son. “I never had a stronger sense, to lead a normal life, as these two,” he wrote about the days with son Conor and his mother Lory. “Conor was a handsome boy with blond hair, like mine was at that age, and brown eyes,” Clapton raved about his son. Until one morning the call came in: Conor is dead Playing the four-year-old was overthrown by an open, French window on the 53rd floor of a New York skyscraper
Five children from three different mothers
That was in 1991. A little later, Clapton released a song with which he processed the grief over the death of the child. “Tears In Heaven” (“Tears in Heaven”) was a worldwide hit. “If we meet in heaven, where at you, you’ll see me, call by name, like this?” It said in a row. In German schools, the song is treated in religious education.
The life of rock stars could also be an issue for the teaching of social studies, or for Psychology. Born in 1945 in English Ripley, he was raised by his grandparents because his mother was flees to Canada. When he met her, he could not call them “Mummy”. Whether his relationship with women at this point got a kink at most Clapton will know yourself. That his wife wear is as legendary as his “Slow Hand” on guitar, is part of the cultural heritage of rock and roll. His five children have three different mothers – at least two of them were not his wives
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Dusseldorf. In Kiel “Tatort” cleared on Sunday evening, the Commissioners Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt on the murder of a pedophile Hartz IV recipients in Gaarden problem area. The thriller was a lesson on the social consequences of neglect and emotional neglect. By Martina Stoecker
The best pictures
Scandinavian cool effect of the Crime of Kiel. Images from the bird’s eye view and close-ups showing the whole desolation of the neighborhood Gaarden. Visually, a strong “crime scene”. The scene in which Commissioner Borowski (Axel Milberg) is bullying and extortion, can include a soccer field with the youth gang that the main suspect Timo Scholz (Bruno Alexander), is impressive and plays in the symbolism on the domestication of wild animals to.
What lasting effect
The Writers Eva and Volker A. Zahn have been inspired by a real case from Berlin. There was a problem area at a similar “youth club”. The man abused a boy who killed him then. The solution in this case is not so easy, but the subject of neglect and indifference to sexual abuse is strong. “Borowski and the children of Gaarden” has become more a social study as a thriller. And the film is also the better social drama and touching describes the circumstances in which the future of children is lost: a mixture of ignorance, lack of attention and feeling cold. It plays to a place where little money is available, but all animals – and many are these important than the people around them. And the film shows young people and children, the unloved grow because of social neglect and therefore not perceive sexual abuse as such, because it simply means a form of attention for it.
The lustigeste dialog
A dog barks. Borowski to a boy: “Do you have a dog?” “No, this is my brother.” “And your brother is barking?”
The one knows yet
Tom Wlaschiha plays the opaque district police Thorsten noise. “Rauschi” knows Commissioner Sarah Brandt (Sibel Kekilli) nor from their youth, on a personal level is played long with the suspicion of the police. The native axis embodied in the series “Game of Thrones” killer Jaquen H’ghar and is in the fifth season it again.
The most touching monologue
“The number one rule in Gaarden is: you can either do wrong or very wrong a right does not exist here.”. Not only Borowski is impressed by so much worldly wisdom of teens Timo Scholz.
What bothers you?
Borowski is always a softie under the “crime scene” -Ermittlern but in this sociogram he overdoes it a bit with his insightful tour and slogans like “blow-off is not the answer.” Unintentionally funny: Policeman “rauschi” runs in his uniform and sunglasses on the streets, as if he were a member of the “Village People”. And in the end it is in spite of the moving thread a bit lengthy
Who convinced
The young actors who embody the members of the youth gang.? – Especially Amar Saaifan, who plays the murderer Leon. Kekilli and Wlaschiha have a very strong scene when the Commissioner with the colleagues “Truth or Dare” plays – as it shows that is what is behind the sunglasses
one of his greatest successes. The film focuses detail exactly on the scandal of the forged Hitler diaries, the Konrad Kujau had the magazine “Stern” sold in the 1980s. “Schtonk!” Was awarded the German Film Award and the Guild Film Award in Gold and even nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. 
(2005) nevertheless still well received by most critics. In his settlement with the love Dietl draws on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Must here it is the composer Mimi Nachtigal (Moritz Bleibtreu) who commits after the separation of the singer Venus Morning Star (Alexandra Maria Lara) in Greece suicide and in the underworld of the advances of the two sexes messenger god Hermes (Heino Ferch) resist. Venus comes meanwhile, despite a new relationship not about Mimi away and eventually travels to the underworld to rescue him. “I want to keep a plea for it again and again with love to try, no matter what bad experiences one has already done with her,” said the three times married Dietl in an interview with “Dirk Jasper Movies Encyclopedia”. Because: “Love is the ultimate weapon against death.” 
