JÜRGEN BRAUER

Jürgen Brauer (born November 6, 1938 in Leipzig) is a German cameraman, film director and screenwriter.
Jürgen Brauer was born in Leipzig in 1938 as the son of a shoemaker. After graduating from high school in 1956, he began studying physics at the Technical University of Dresden and attended there u. a. Lectures in scientific photography. Later he worked for about a year as an optical computer in the VEB camera works Niedersedlitz, when in 1958 he began studying at the German Academy of Film Arts in Potsdam-Babelsberg in the field of camera, which he finished in 1962 with a diploma. Thereafter, the graduate cameraman went to DEFA, where he first filmed various short films of the satirical "Stacheleltier" series, with Horst Seemann as director.
In 1965 he first directed the camera in a feature film, in Heiner Carow's children's film The Journey to Sundevit. Both with Carow, as well as with sailor Brauer worked together in the aftermath of several film productions. His greatest achievements as a cinematographer had Brauer in the 1970s, so with Carov's The Legend of Paul and Paula (1972), Icarus (1975) and Until that death separates you (1978), with Frank Beyer's The Hideout (1978) and with The Betrothed (1980) by Günter Reisch and Günther Rücker.
Shortly before shooting began on the Wellm film adaptation Pugowitza, at which the original director gave up in 1980, Brauer was promptly committed as a director, so that he celebrated his debut as a film director with the support of Heiner Carow. His second directorial work Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns, an adaptation of the fairytale novel by Gisela and Bettina von Arnim, was created in 1985. A year later, he staged together with Günther Rücker the film Hilde, the maid, in which he was responsible for the co-direction and the camera was. Further film work followed.
Since 1984, Brauer also taught as a lecturer at the Film and Television Academy "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg.