Franz-Josef Spieker (24 November 1933,

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– 18 March 1978, near

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) was a German film maker. Spieker studied theater and literary sciences at the DIFF (German Institute for Film and Television) in

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. He worked as a photojournalist and film critic and later became an assistant director of Géza von Radványi in 1957,

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( Paths of Glory) and Douglas Sirk, as a production and editing assistant. In 1958, he shot his first short film, and in 1962, he signed the

Oberhausen Manifesto The Oberhausen Manifesto was a declaration by a group of 26 young German filmmakers at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia on 28 February 1962. The manifesto was a call to arms to establish a "new German featur ...

. In the same year, he participated in the

anthology film An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme ...

' (''Look After Your Daughters''), a predecessor to the sex report film, with the producer Walter Koppel wanting to win over the signatories of the Manifesto. Spieker became famous in 1967 with his first full-length feature film ', a satire on stubbornness, which made him a hope-bearer of New German Cinema. The satire on Bundeswehr, ' and the social satire ', while still acclaimed, but was not as popular as ''Wilder Reiter GmbH''. Spieker still made numerous short films and received the silver

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in 1977 for ''Persönlichkeitstest'' on behalf of his production company, Cinema 80. He was found dead on the beaches of

. As a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto, he was posthumously honored with the gold Deutscher Filmpreis in 1982.

Filmography

Feature films * 1964: ' (

) * 1967: ' * 1968: ' * 1969: ' * 1970: ''Drücker'' (TV film) Short films * 1958: ''Menschen bei 30 Grad'' (documentary) * 1958: ''El Salvador'' (documentary) * 1958: ''Insel in der Sonne'' (documentary) * 1959: ''Masken und Gesichter'' * 1960: ''Alltag der 7. Muse'' * 1961: ''Süden im Schatten'' * 1963: ''Doppelkonzert'' * 1964: ''Das Malschiff'' * 1965: ''Salzburg Sight and Sound'' (documentary) * 1972: ''Das Jodelsystem'' * 1972: ''Abstraktes Echo'' * 1973: ''Spuren und Kontakte'' (documentary) * 1974: ''Pashupatinath Abendraga'' * 1975: ''Straßenartisten'' * 1977: ''Der Persönlichkeitstest'' * 1978: ''Nirmala'' (unfinished)

External links

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Franz-Josef Spieker on the website that commemorated 30 years of the Oberhausen Manifesto
1933 births 1978 deaths Film directors from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Paderborn {{Germany-film-actor-stub