JÖRG SCHMIDT-REITWEIN

1969 - FATA MORGANA (Mirage)  

First time working as Director of Photography.

Director: Werner Herzog - 100 min - 35 mm - Color - Locations: Sahara desert including 11 north, west & central African countries.

 

1969 - EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL

(Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) -

Second Unit Camera.

Director: Werner Herzog - 35 mm - Black & White - Location: Island of Lanzarote (Canary Islands).

 

1970 - WUMM  

Short Film - 20 min - 35 mm - Color - Locations: villages in Bavaria. 

 

1970 – ANGLIA  

Director: Werner Schroeter, with R.W. Fassbinder - Location: Munich.

 

1970-1971 - Twelve films for TV, features, shorts & documentaries, including DER DAMM and SIDDHARTA (Herman Hesse)

Director: Christian Doermer - Locations: India & Nepal.

 

1972 - LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS

(Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit).

Director: Werner Herzog - 45 min - 16mm - Color - Documentary - Locations: Munich & Bavaria. 

 

1972 - HANDICAPPED FUTURE (Behinderte Zukunft) - Director: Werner Herzog - 45 mm - 16 mm - Color - Documentary - Locations: Bavaria & Los Angeles.

 

1973 - CHITRANGADAR

Dancing Drama (from Rabindranat Tagore),

RAINMAKER and INDIAN MUSIC - 3 Docudramas - Director: Joern Thiel - 45 min each – Color -

Locations: Calcutta, Birbum & Rajastan, India.

 

1974 - DIE EKSTASE DES BILDSCHNITZERS STEINER

(The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner) 

Director: Werner Herzog - 45 mm – Documentary - Color  - 16 mm 

Locations: Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland.

 

1974 – KASPAR HAUSER  

EVERYBODY AGAINST HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL Jeder fuer sich und Gott gegen alle Director: Werner Herzog - 90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film

Location: Dinkelsbuehl, Franconia, Germany.

 

1974 - DAS ANDECHSER GEFUEHL 

Director: Herbert Achternbusch

90 min - Feature Film - Color - 16mm -

Location: Andechs, Bavaria.

 

1975 - AUSREISSER - ZDF (Schueler Express)

20 min - color - 16 mm - Docudrama

Director, Production, Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein - Location: Munich & Milan.

 

1975 - WENN MIR DIE WILDEN BOESEN KOMMEN  

Director: Kettelhack - 45 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Locations: Berlin & Senegal.

 

1975 - SENIORENSCHWEIZ

Feature Film for TV station Suedwest Funk  Baden - Baden - Director: Otto Jaegersberg - 90 min - color -16 mm - Location: Baden-Baden & around the city.

 

1975 - STERBEHILFE - MORD ODER MOEGLICHKEIT - Director: Wilma Kottusch - 45 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Film

Locations: Munich & Berlin.

 

1975 - DIE ATLANTIKSCHWIMMER

Director: Herbert Achternbusch - 90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film 

Locations: Bavaria & Teneriffa (Canary Islands).

 

1976 - HEART OF GLASS (Herz aus Glas)

Director: Werner Herzog

 94 min – Color - 35 mm – Feature Film.

Schmidt-Reitwin won the 1977 German Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Individual Achievement: Cinematography

 

1976 - DER BIERKAMPF

Director: Herbert Achternbusch - 16 mm - Color - 90 min -  Feature Film

Location: Munich.

 

1976 - DIE HOHENSTAUFEN

Director: Dr. Alexander Kluge - Short Film - 20 min - 35 mm - Color

Location: Stuttgart.

 

1976 - LA SOUFRIERE

Director: Werner Herzog

45 min - Color - 16 mm -  Documentary Film

Location: Guadalupe.

 

1976 - UNTERNEHMEN ULAY

Director: Wilma Kottusch

16 mm – Black & White - 20 min – Performance/Action Film - Locaton: Berlin.

 

1976 - NICHT LEBEN - NICHT STERBEN

Director: Wilma

16 mm - Color - 45 min - Documentary Film

Locations: Nuernberg & Munich.

 

1976 - OB‘S STUERMT ODER SCHEINT

Director: Doris Doerrie - 45 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Film

Location: Endorf (Chiemsee), Germany.

 

1977 - NO ONE WILL PLAY WITH ME

Director: Werner Herzog 

16 mm - Color - 12 min - Short Film

 Location: Munich.

 

1977 - DIE MENSCHEN, DIE DAS STAUFERJAHR VORBEREITEN

Director: Dr. Alexander Kluge

20 min - Color - 35 mm - Documentary Film

Locations: Stuttgart  & Munich.

 

1977 - NACHRICHTEN VON DEN STAUFERN -

Director: Dr. Alexander Kluge -

20 min - Color -35 mm -

Locations: Stuttgart & Munich.

 

1977 - SYLVESTERNACHT (New Year’s Night) -

Director: Douglas Sirk -

20 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria Studio Munich.

 

1977 - DIE STUNDE DER PUPPE -

Director: Wilma Kottusch -

16 mm - Color - 90 min - TV Feature Film - 

Location: Bavaria.

 

1977 - SERVUS BAYERN -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

90 min - Color -35 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Bavaria & Greenland.

 

1978 - NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE -

Director: Werner Herzog -

100 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Delft, The Netherlands & Czechoslovakia.

 

1978 - WOYZECK (with Klaus Kinski) -

Director: Werner Herzog -

80 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Czechoslovakia.

 

1978 - DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST –

Directors: Dr. Alexander Kluge & Volker Schloendorff -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Documentary Feature Film - Locations: Munch & Frankfurt am Main.

 

1978 - DIE PATRIOTIN -

Director: Dr. Alexander Kluge -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Documentary Feature Film -

Locations: Munch & Frankfurt am Main.

 

1979 - DER KANDIDAT –

Directors: Dr. Alexander Kluge & Volker Schloendorff -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Munich & environs.

 

1979 - PUBLIC RELATION FILM -

Director, Production, and Camera: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein - 15 min - Color - 16 mm -

Location: Miami & other places in Florida.

 

1980 - ORATORIUM -

Director: Florian Fricke -

16 mm - Color - Feature Film -

Locations: Negev Desert & Sinai Peninsula.

 

1980 - DER DEPP -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

90 min – Black & White - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1980 - CHARLY II -

Director: Cliff Robertson -

35 mm - Color - Feature Film (work in progress) -

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

 

1980 - DER NEGER ERWIN -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

92 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Bavaria & Brussels.

 

1981- DAS LIEBESKONZIL -

Director: Werner Schroeter -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Rome.

 

1981- LAND OF LOOK BEHIND -

Director: Alan Greenberg -

45 min - Color - 16 mm - Semi-Documentary -

Location: Jamaica.

 

1981- DAS LETZTE LOCH -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

92 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1981- SEHNSUCHT NACH DEM GANZ ANDEREN - Director: Pia Frankenberg -

12 min – Black & White - 35 mm - Short Film -

Location: Hamburg.

 

1982 - MANURE -

Director: Solveig Hoogesteijn -

96 min - Color - 16 mm TV Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1982 - DAS GESPENST -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

92 min - Black & White - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1982 - DIE OLYMPIASIEGERIN -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1983 - RITA - RITTER -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

89 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Bavaria & Paris.

 

1983 - DER WANDERKRIEBS -

Director: Herbert Achternbusch -

90 min - Color - 35 mm -

Locations: Bavaria & Vienna.

 

1984 - DIE PRAXIS DER LIEBE -

Director: Valie Export -

92 min - Color - 16 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Vienna & Hamburg.

 

1984 - WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM

(Wo die Gruenen Ameisen traeumen“) -

Director: Werner Herzog -

90 min - Color - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Australia.

This film was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the German Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Feature Film.  Schmidt-Reitwein won another German Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography.

 

1985 - KAISER UND EINE NACHT -

Director: Markus Fischer -

90 min - Color - Feature Film -

Locations: Kreuzlingen & Tessin, Switzerland.

 

1985 -1986 - NEUER ENGEL WESTWAERTS -

Director: Gerhard Thuering -

120 min - 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Drome (southeastern France).

 

1986 - VILLA AIR BEL -

Director: Joerg  Bundschuh -

89 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Film -

Locations: USA & France.

 

1986 - DER NACHBAR -

Director: Markus Fischer -

96 min - Color 35 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Zurich, Switzerland.

 

1987 - SEEFAHRER -

Director: Joerg Bundschuh -

89 min - Color - Documentary Film -

Locations: Hamburg, Atlantic Sea, Brazil & Argentina.

 

1987 - GESCHICHTEN VON ANDERSWO -

Director: Christian Weisenborn -

28 min - Color -16 mm - Documentary Film -

Location: Brasil.

 

1988 - ZIMMER 36 -

Director: Markus Fischer

88 min - Black/White 35 mm - Feature Film -

Locations: Konstanz, Germany & Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

 

1988 - GESUCHT MONIKA ERTL -

Director: Christian von Baudessin -

45 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Film -

Location: Bolivia.

 

1988 - WOODABE - HERDSMEN OF THE SUN 

(Woodabe - Hirten der Sonne) -

Director: Werner Herzog -

45 min - Color - 16 mm - Documentary Film -

Location: Sahelzone, Niger.

 

1988 - IN MEINEM HERZEN SCHATZ -

Director: Hans C. Blumenberg -

84 min Black/White - 35 mm - Docudrama -

Locations: Hamburg & Starnberger See (Germany).

 

1989 - DER ALTE REBELL UND SEIN GOLD -

Director: Sylvio Heufelder -

45 min - Color -16 mm - Documentary Film -

Locations: Chihuahua & El Paso, Mexico. 

 

1989 - BAVARIA BLUE -

Director: Joerg Bundschuh - 90 min - Color -16 mm - Feature Film -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1990 - ECHOES FROM A SOMBRE EMPIRE

(Winter des Patriarchen - Bokassa) -

Director: Werner Herzog -

16 mm - Color - Documentary Film -

Locations: Bangui (central Africa) & France.

 

1990 - DIE RATTE -

Director: Markus Fischer -

60 min - Color -16 mm - Criminal Film -

Location: Bale, Switzerland.

 

1990 - DESPERADOS -

Director: Markus Fischer -

60 min - Color - 16 mm - Criminal Film -

Locations: Lugano & Locarno, Switzerland.

 

1990-1991 – WILMA WOHNT WEIT WEG -

Director: Dirk Schaefer -

90 min - Color - 16 mm - TV Feature Film -

Location: Berlin.

 

1991- DIE BRANDNACHT (Burning Night) -

Director: Markus Fischer -

100 min - Color - 35 mm - Cinema Feature Film -

Location: Julia Valley, Switzerland.

 

1992 - KALTES FIEBER -

Director: Markus Fischer -

60 min - TV Feature Film - Color -

Location: Morocco.

 

1992 - PROBEFAHRT INS PARADIES -

Director: Douglas Wolfsberger -

100 min - Color - 35 mm - Cinema Feature Film -

Locations: Konstanz & Bodensee, Switzerland.

 

1992 - BELLS FROM THE DEEP (Glocken der Firnsternis) - Director: Werner Herzog -

20 min - Documentary Film - Color -

Locations: Siberia, Ladoga Sea, St. Petersburg & Moscow.

 

1993 – HIMMEL UND ERDE -

Director: Markus Fischer -

Tatort Bavaria - Film GmbH - Color -

Location: Munich & environs.

 

1993 - KLECKERBURG VERLOREN -

Director: Hans C. Blumenberg -

Documentary Film – Color -  Provobis Film -

Location: Gdansk, Poland.

 

1993 - MYTHOS BAYREUTH -

Director: Werner Herzog -

Documentary Film – Color - Arte and ZDF.

 

1994 - STRASS AND PLEUROSEN -

Directors: Ulrich Zrenner & Mathias Wilfert -

Documentary Film - Color - Super 16 mm -

Locations: Spain, the Alps & Munich.

 

1994 - VERBOTENE ZONE -

Director: Markus Fischer -

Super 16 mm - Color - 45 min - Universum-Film/ZDF - TV Feature Film -

Location: Cologne & environs.

 

1994 - THE PAPER HAT - (Der Papierhut) -

Director: La Phoung -

Color - Super 16 mm - Short Feature Film -

Location: Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

 

1994-1999 Visiting Lecturer,

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg,

Ludwigsburg, Germany.

 

1995 - DAS MAEDCHEN MIT DER PUPPE -

Director: Markus Fischer - Tatort for Bavaria-Film/WDR - Location: Munich.

 

1995 - DER SPEZIALIST -

Director: Markus Fischer - Tatort for Bavaria Film/WDR - Location: Munich.

 

1995 - DIE ABRECHNUNG -

Director: Markus Fischer - Tatort for Boa Filmproduktion - Location: Switzerland.

 

1996 - IM RAUSCH DER LIEBE -

Director: Markus Fischer -

TV Feature Film for RTL -

Locations: North of Germany, Dessau & the Alps.

 

1997 - ROT WIE DAS BLUT -

Director: Markus Fischer -

Super 16 mm - 45 min - TV Feature Film for WDR - Locations: Cologne & Belgium.

 

1998 -TRIEBWEG -

Director, Cinematographer & Production: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein -

Location: Bavaria.

 

1998 - PROJEKT ALPHA -

Director: Klemens Kuby -

Feature Film -

Location: Mexico, Florida/USA.

 

1998 - THE UNCLE FROM THE SEA (Der Onkel von Meer) - Director: Marie L. Bless –

Cinema Feature Film - Sylvia Film Produktion -

Location: Switzerland. 

 

1998 - FISIMATENTEN

(with Maximillian Schell & Alexandra Maria Lara) -

Director: Jochen Kuhn -

Feature Film - Nextfilm Production.

 

1998 –TRITTBRETTFAHRER 

TV Production - 16 mm - Tatort 

Director: Markus Fischer

Location: Switzerland.

 

1999 - NIKE Commercial

Director: Ralf Schmerberg -

Triggerhappyproductions.

 

1999 - DAS ROTE STRUMPFBAND -

Director: Markus Fischer -

Erotic tale - 20 min - Color - 35 mm -

Location: Zurich, Switzerland - 

Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion.

 

1999 - PASSENGER -

Director: Markus Fischer -

20 min - Color - 35 mm - Music Film -

Location: Zurich -

Boa Filmproduktion.

 

2000 - DUNE -

Director: Ralf Schmerberg -

Music Video - Triggerhappyproductions.

 

2000 - ECCE HOMO 

Director: Miriam Kubescha -

Black & White – Docudrama - 45 min -16 mm -

Location: Italy.  

 

2000 – Lecturer -

WORKSHOP: LESSONS ON CINEMATOGRAPHY - University of the Philippines. 

 

2001 - IMELDA MARCOS -

Director: Tikoy Aguiluz – Documentary –

Location: Philippines.

 

2001 - PARADISE -

Director: Jan Bosse -

Docudrama - 45min - Black & White - 16 mm -

Location:  Caput, island near Berlin.

 

2002 - INTERNATIONAL PONY -

Director: Zoran Bihac -

Music Video - Triggerhappyproductions.

Location: Berlin.

 

2002 - STEEL

Commercial for European Steel Union -

Director: Martin Schmid.

Location: Lisbon.

 

2003 - DHL - PYRAMID 

Director: Martin Schmid -

Commercial -

Location: Morocco.

 

2004 - VW 

VISTA VISION (360 degree - dome cinema) -

Public Relations Movie.

Director: Christian Aeby.  

     

2004 - THE WONDER OF JESSYE NORMAN  

Director: Andre Heller -

Docudrama (Opera) -

Locations: Vienna & Marrakesh. 

 

2006 - DROPPING KNOWLEDGE

(Global Warming Documentary) -

Director: Ralf Schmerberg -

Locations: Bombay, Peking, Carracas, New Orleans & San Francisco.

 

2007 – MARMORERA

Mystery Feature Film -

Director: Markus Fischer -

Location: Zurich & Julia Valley, Switzerland.

Won FANCINE XVII Premio a la Mejor Fotografia, Fantasy Film Festival, Malaga, Spain. 

 

2007 - THE CALL OF THE GECKOS (Der Ruf der Geckos) - Director: La Phoung -

Locations: Mekong Delta & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

 

2009 – CONEY ISLAND BABY -

Director: Andre Aimaq -

Location: New York City.

 

2009 – SUCCSESSFUL GERMAN FAMILIES / BARON VON POESCHINER  -

Location: Bavaria.

 

2012 – ELINA GARANZA

Opera Music Video-

Director: Ottmar Schmieder -

Location: Vienna.

 

2012 – ESCAPE FROM TIEBET 

Spielfilm- Production: Snakefilm/Kickfim -

Location: Himalaya/Schweiz.

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2013 -GUY TALK     ( Commercial für Schweizer Post)

Director : Brian Lee Hughes

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2013-STAY HOME  ( Commercial für Scweizer Post)

Director : Brian Lee Hughes

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2014 - 5 IngDiba (Commercial)

mit Dirk Nowitzky

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2014 – Workshops and Events in Beijing/China

 

2014 – SUPERGREEN

Documentary/Christian Ingenhoven -

Director: Frank Henschke -

Location: Singapur, Switzerland, Germany.

 

2015  - WYE

Experimental Art Movie, Director: Mikhael Sobotsky

Location (South Afrika)

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2015 – Blue/Green-screen Workshop  -

Subject: BASE Jumping - Location: Ljubliana/Slovenia

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2015 -POET

Regie: André Aimaq

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2016 -BIKE

Regie: André Aimaq, Location: Marrocco

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2017 - HERBERT

Experimental Art Movie

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2017 - WAYS OF SEEING

Documentary about Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

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