Lars Brandt
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Lars Brandt (born June 3, 1951 in West Berlin) is a German writer and filmmaker.
Life[edit]
Lars Brandt is the second of three sons of former German Chancellor (Germany), SPD chairman and Governing Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt and his second wife Rut Brandt. His brothers are Peter Brandt and Matthias Brandt.
Lars Brandt studied political science, sociology, philosophy and briefly Japanese studies. He has been a freelance artist since the mid-1970s, working at the "intersection of image and word," making films, texts, and images.
In his documentary film Moments of Happiness - H. C. Artmann (2000 WDR/ARTE) and his book H. C. Artmann - ein Gespräch (2001, published by Residenz Verlag in Salzburg), Brandt dealt with the poet and Georg Büchner Prize-winner H. C. Artmann. He thus set a monument to Artmann, who died shortly after working on this project.
Brandt experienced his father's rise at close quarters and wrote the literary book Andenken (published by Hanser Verlag in Munich in 2006) about his relationship with his father, who died in 1992. The critically acclaimed work reached No. 1 on the bestseller list of the news magazine Spiegel immediately after its publication.
'Andenken' by Lars Brandt is by its genre short prose, by its essence a letter to the father. It is a letter in which the son does not separate himself from the deceased father Willy, but on the contrary uses stylistic and intellectual intensification to overcome what separates him.
— Ursula März, Deutschlandfunk, 2006 [1]
In his first novel Gold and Silver (published by Hanser Verlag in 2008), Brandt tells encoded stories of love. The novel depicts a group of artists who spend their days at the table of a work-living community as if at a recreated "Artistic Table." At the center is a "tired Lancelot" who loses the woman he adores to a competitor.
Brandt lives and works in Bonn.
Works[edit]
- H. C. Artmann. A Conversation. Residenz-Verl., Salzburg u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1265-4. (Media combination, with CD-ROM).
- Andenken. First ed.: Hanser Verl., Munich u. a. 2006; 2nd ed., Hanser Verl., Munich u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-446-20710-4; paperback edition: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl., Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007 (= Rororo, 24453), ISBN 978-3-499-24453-7.
- Gold and Silver, novel. Hanser Verlag, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23032-3.
- Alles Zirkus novel, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012.
Films[edit]
- Katz und Maus, directed by Hansjürgen Pohland, BRD 1967.
- Moments of Happiness - H. C. Artmann, WDR/ARTE 2000.
Actors[edit]
In the film Katz und Maus (1966), Lars Brandt played the role of the young Joachim Mahlke. His brother Peter Brandt played the role of the older Joachim Mahlke.
Literature[edit]
- Torsten Körner: The Willy Brandt Family. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-040407-7.
Web links[edit]
- Literature by and about Lars Brandt in the German National Library catalogue
- Lars Brandt at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Letter to the Father. 'Andenken' von Lars Brandt", contribution by Ursula März, Deutschlandfunk, March 22, 2006
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