In the mists of war and violence, the Harlequin, trumpet in hand, drifts through ravaged landscape passing a cripple and a marionette: Bernhard Heisig's pictorial worlds shock the viewer by depicting the great dramas of German history. Both a victim and a perpetrator in World War II and in the GDR dictatorship, the artist's search for sense and truth led him to his moving image formulas. Director Reiner E. Moritz converses with the renowned ex-principal of the Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) about his work, which influenced the development of art for many decades in the rigid GDR system.
Reiner E. Moritz
Director
Public Speaking70%
McQueen74%
Sherman's March65%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Matrix Recalibrated69%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Night Will Fall76%
Sidney70%
Fuck64%
Directed by John Ford70%
John Candy: I Like Me79%
180° South72%
Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit67%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
The Class of ‘9271%
Extremis69%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Heart of a Dog65%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
