{{Short description|German film director, writer, actor and producer (1927–2023)}} {{distinguish|Peer Lilienthal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Peter Lilienthal | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|11|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|04|28|1927|11|27|df=yes}} | death_place = Munich, Bavaria, Germany | other_names = | occupation = Film director<br />Screenwriter<br />Actor | years_active = 1958–2007 }}
'''Peter Lilienthal''' (27 November 1927 – 28 April 2023) was a German film director, writer, actor and producer. He is most associated with being a liberal director of New German Cinema in the 1970s.<ref name="Reimer">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4MCZDwAAQBAJ&dq=Dear+Mr.+Wonderful+pesci+peter+lilienthal&pg=PA182 |title=Historical Dictionary of German Cinema|author1=Robert C. Reimer |author2=Carol J. Reimer |date= 2019 |isbn=9781538119402 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=182}}</ref>
==Early life== As a child, in 1939, Lilienthal emigrated to Montevideo, Uruguay, with his parents to escape the Nazis.<ref name="ZDF">{{cite news |url=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/regisseur-peter-lilienthal-tot-100.html |title="Neuer Deutscher Film" : Regisseur Peter Lilienthal ist gestorben |date=28 April 2023 |work=ZDF |language=de |access-date=4 May 2023}}</ref> He only returned to Germany in 1956 to attend a film school.<ref name="Reimer"/>
==Career== In the 1960s and 1970s, Lilienthal was among directors who focused on social criticism, along with Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.<ref name="WDR" /> In 1970 he directed ''Malatesta'' with Eddie Constantine and Christine Noonan, which contains some biographical aspects of the life of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta. The film was featured at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2450/year/1970.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Malatesta |accessdate=3 May 2023|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> In 1975, Lilienthal shot ''Calm Prevails Over the Country'' (''Es herrscht Ruhe im Land''),<ref name="ZDF" /> based on a screenplay by Antonio Skármeta. The picture was screened at the Hof International Film Festival.<ref name="Reimer"/>
His 1979 film ''David'', about a son of a rabbi wo survives the Nazi regime, won the Golden Bear at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="ZDF" /><ref name="Berlinale 1979">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1979/03_preistr_ger_1979/03_Preistraeger_1979.html |title=Berlinale 1978: Prize Winners |accessdate=13 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In 1982 he directed American actor Joe Pesci in ''Dear Mr. Wonderful'', his first American endeavor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbowDwAAQBAJ&dq=Dear+Mr.+Wonderful+pesci+peter+lilienthal&pg=PA375|title=Adventures of Perception - Cinema as Exploration|author=MacDonald, Scott|publisher=University of California Press|year=2009|page=375|isbn=9780520258563 }}</ref> ''{{ill|The Uprising (1980 film)|de|3=Der Aufstand (1980)|lt=The Uprising}}'' (''Der Aufstand'' or ''La insurrección'') followed, another collaboration with Skármeta in 1980,<ref name="Reimer"/> a film which was made in Costa Rica and depicts the Nicaraguan Revolution.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AC1qAAAAMAAJ&q=Der+Aufstand++La+insurreci%C3%B3n+Costa+Rica+Nicaraguan+Revolution.|title=The Nirex Collection Nicaraguan Revolution Extracts, 1978-1990|author=Porfirio R. Solórzano |year=1993|publisher=Litex|isbn=9781877970016 }}</ref>
Lilienthal's 1984 film ''Das Autogramm'' was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="ZDF" /><ref name="Berlinale 1984">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1984/02_programm_1984/02_Programm_1984.html |title=Berlinale: 1984 Programme |accessdate=25 November 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> Lilienthal was the first director of the department ''Film- und Medienkunst'' (The art of film and media) of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1985, holding the position until 1996.<ref name="ZDF" /><ref name="WDR" /> In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Berlinale 1996">{{cite web |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1996/04_jury_1996/04_Jury_1996.html |title=Berlinale: 1996 Juries |access-date=1 January 2012 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000.<ref name="ZDF" /> Lilienthal died in Munich on 28 April 2023, at the age of 95.<ref name="ZDF" /><ref name="WDR">{{cite news |url=https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/peter-lilienthal-regisseur-gestorben-100.html |title=Regisseur Peter Lilienthal gestorben] |date=28 April 2023 |work=WDR |language=de |access-date=4 May 2023}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Director=== *1958: ''Studie 23'' (co-directors: Pit Kroke, Jörg Müller, Ralph Wünsche), short *1959: ''Ausflug mit Damen'' (co-director Wolfgang Spier — Based on a play by Friedrich Michael) *1960: ''Die Nachbarskinder'' (segment of the anthology film ''Der Nachbar'', screenplay: Benno Meyer-Wehlack), short *1961: ''Biographie eines Schokoladentages'' (screenplay: Dieter Gasper) *1962: ''Der 18. Geburtstag'' (screenplay: Theodor Kotulla, Klaus Roehler)<!--3 January 1962--> *1962: ''Stück für Stück'' (screenplay: Benno Meyer-Wehlack)<!--4 October 1962--> *1962: ''Picknick im Felde'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a play by Fernando Arrabal), short<!--20 December 1962--> *1963: ''Striptease'' (based on a play by Sławomir Mrożek), short *1963: ''Schule der Geläufigkeit'' (screenplay: Dieter Gasper), short *1964: ''Das Martyrium des Peter O'Hey'' (screenplay: Günther Kieser, Peter Lilienthal — Based on a play by Sławomir Mrożek)<!--19 May 1964--> *1965: ''Guernica – Jede Stunde verletzt und die letzte tötet'' (based on a play by Fernando Arrabal), short<!--21 February 1965--> *1965: ''Seraphine oder Die wundersame Geschichte der Tante Flora'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a play by David Perry), short<!--16 March 1965--> *1966: ''Abschied'' (screenplay: Günter Herburger)<!--3 March 1966--> *1966: ''Der Beginn'' (screenplay: Günter Herburger, Peter Lilienthal)<!--24 October 1966--> *1967: ''Unbeschriebenes Blatt'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a play by Rhys Adrian)<!--11 February 1967--> *1967: ''Abgründe'' (screenplay: Peter Schneider, George Moorse, Peter Lilienthal — Anthology film based on stories by Stanley Ellin and Patrick Quentin)<!--17 October 1967--> *1967: ''A Premeditated Crime'' (screenplay: Piers Paul Read, Peter Lilienthal — Based on a story by Witold Gombrowicz)<!--22 November 1967--> *1968: ''Tramp oder Der einzige und unvergleichliche Lenny Jacobson'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a play by Barry Bermange)<!--10 December 1968--> *1969: ''Horror'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on novel "How Awful About Allan" by Henry Farrell)<!--13 January 1969--> *1970: ''Malatesta'' (screenplay: Heathcote Williams, Michael Koser, Peter Lilienthal)<!--7 May 1970, Cannes Film Festival--> *1971: ''Die Sonne angreifen'' (screenplay: Robert Muller, Peter Lilienthal — Based on a novel by Witold Gombrowicz) *1971: ''Jakob von Gunten'' (screenplay: Ror Wolf, Peter Lilienthal — Based on the novel ''Jakob von Gunten'' by Robert Walser) *1973: ''La Victoria'' (screenplay: Antonio Skármeta, Peter Lilienthal)<ref name="ZDF" /> *1975: ''Schoolmaster Hofer'' (screenplay: {{Ill|Herbert Brödl|de}}, Peter Lilienthal — Based on ''Hauptlehrer Hofer'' by Günter Herburger) *1975: ''{{ill|Calm Prevails Over the Country|de|Es herrscht Ruhe im Land}}'' (screenplay: Antonio Skármeta, Peter Lilienthal)<!--15 November 1975, Hof International Film Festival --><ref name="WDR" /> *1979: ''David'' (screenplay: Jurek Becker, Peter Lilienthal — Based on ''Den Netzen entronnen'' by Joel König)<ref name="WDR" /> *1980: ''{{ill|The Uprising (1980 film)|de|3=Der Aufstand (1980)|lt=The Uprising}}'' (screenplay: Antonio Skármeta, Peter Lilienthal)<ref name="ZDF" /> *1982: ''Dear Mr. Wonderful'' (screenplay: Sam Koperwas) *1984: ''Das Autogramm'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on ''Cuarteles de invierno'' by Osvaldo Soriano)<ref name="WDR" /> *1986: ''The Silence of the Poet'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on ''The Continuing Silence of a Poet'' by A. B. Yehoshua)<ref name="ZDF" /> *1988: ''Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal'' (screenplay: Antonio Skármeta, Peter Lilienthal) *1995: ''Wasserman – Der singende Hund'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a story by Yoram Kaniuk)<!--14 April 1995--> *1995: ''Angesichts der Wälder'' (screenplay: Peter Lilienthal — Based on a story by A. B. Yehoshua)<!--6 July 1995--> '''Documentaries''' *1959: ''Im Handumdrehen verdient'' *1964: ''Marl – Das Porträt einer Stadt'' *1969: ''{{Ill|Noon in Tunisia|de|Noon in Tunisia (Film)}}'' *1970: ''Ich, Montag – Ich, Dienstag – Ich, Mittwoch – Ich, Donnerstag. Portrait Gombrowicz'' *1971: ''Start Nr. 9'' *1972: ''Shirley Chisholm for President'' *1977: ''Kadir'' *2001: ''{{Ill|Denk ich an Deutschland …|de}}: Ein Fremder'' *2007: ''Camilo: The Long Road to Disobedience''
===Actor=== *1972: ''Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street'' – Carlos *1977: ''The American Friend'' – Marcangelo *1978: ''I See This Land from Afar'' – Pfarrer Hendrich *1979: ''{{ill|Milo Milo|de}}'' *1983: ''Der Platzanweiser – Porträt eines Kinomanen''
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0510245|Peter Lilienthal}}
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