Pepe danquart biography

Pepe Danquart was born on March 1, 1955 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Pepe Danquart started shooting his first films on Super-8 back in 1968.
Pepe Danquart was born on 1 March 1955 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Pepe Danquart, Schwarzfahrer (1992)

Pepe Danquart’s short film Schwarzfahrer (1992) offers an excruciating glimpse into racial prejudice in contemporary German society. (Note: the German verb “schwarzfahren” translates literally as “riding black” but is used figuratively to mean to taking public transportation without a ticket. In this case, the title Schwarzfahrer (or Black Rider) is a play on both the literal and figure meanings of “riding black.”) The eleven-minute film plays out in a tram in Berlin. A young Black man boards the tram and sits down next to an elderly German woman, who is clearly put out to have a Black seatmate. She responds with a racist rant filled with anti-immigrant stereotypes: e.g. that immigrants are a drain on resources and don’t conform to German standards of behavior: “If you live off our taxes, you should at least behave properly. It’s not as if it were so difficult to adapt to our customs.”

The young man suffers through her diatribe in silence; the other passengers try to ignore her and choose not to engage. When a controller enters the tram a

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Biography

Pepe Danquart started shooting his first films on Super-8 back in 1968. In 1977 he became the initiator and co-founder of the Medienwerkstatt Freiburg (MWF Engl.: Media Workshop Freiburg). Between1978 and1991 Danquart worked on over 30 documentaries as author, director and/or producer. Among these initial projects classics such as Paßt bloß auf (1980) or Geisterfahrer – Eine utopische Kolportage (1985) emerged and won a host of awards, culminating in the 1987 Documentary Film Award of German Film Critics for the Medienwerkstatt’s overall output.

Two years later Pepe Danquart left the Freiburg collective for Berlin where he shot his first fictional short film Schwarzfahrer. Its success was overwhelming and in 1994 it received an Oscar© for Best Live Action Short Film.

Danquart’s follow-up movie Nach Saison(1994-1997) collected several awards including the Berlinale Peace Film Award, the Grand Prize at San Francisco Film Festival, Grand Prize Valladolid and the Pare Lorenzt Award, L.A. and so solidified the writer/director’s growing international renown.

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TheJakartaPost

Pepe Danquart (Courtesy of Goethe Institut/Nadja Klier)

Academy Award-winning film director Pepe Danquart describes himself as a punk whose flame of rebellion has not waned with age.

Born in Singen, Germany, on March 1, 1955 ' just 10 years after the end of the World War II ' film director Pepe Danquart is part of a German generation whose parents and elders kept a veil over the nation's recent dark past.

Danquart said that during his youth, he often heard stories about the Holocaust, but when he and his peers questioned the older generation, they were met with silence and evasion.

'My parents did not talk about the war. That was the thing. That made me rebellious,' Danquart told The Jakarta Post during a recent visit to Jakarta.

Danquart and his friends then started to probe and dig deeper into their country's past and history. They started to hold discussions to ascertain what had happened and what the previous generation had done during the war.

The discussions ignited political awakening inside Danquart, who decided to study films and commun