
Jonatan Briel
Known for
Directing
Born
June 9, 1942
Birthplace
Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony
Died
August 26, 1988 (aged 46)
Biography
Jonatan Karl Dieter Briel (June 9, 1942 – December 26, 1988) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor, born in Bodenwerder, Lower Saxony, and raised in Holzminden. He is best known as a specialist of the literary biographical film, with a body of work centered on 19th-century German poets and dramatists — primarily Heinrich von Kleist, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, and Friedrich Hölderlin.
After completing an administrative apprenticeship (1959–1962), Briel founded the Youth Film Studio of Holzminden in 1962. He moved to West Berlin in 1965, where he became an assistant to director Peter Lilienthal before being admitted to the newly founded Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
Berlin - Berlin - BerlinDirector
1987
Kleist Project BerlinDirector
1985
1985
KatjaDirector
1985
The Double StrangerScenario Writer
1984
Elli, SO 36Director, Author
1984
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Pressas Dr. Spiegelwelt
1982
Your Humble Servant ScardanelliDirector, Writer
1982
The Attempt to Sing a SongDirector
1981
The Stars That Smile Upon Their Cottageas Voices, Director, Author
1979
Das GeheimnisDirector
1975
A Man AglowDirector, Writer
1973
A Quite Strange Case of LoveDirector, Writer
1971
Tago MagoDirector
1971
Jonatan Briel's Lenz – A German PhysiognomyDirector, Writer
1970
Weighed and Found Too HeavyDirector
1970
Berlin, Berlin, BerlinDirector, Writer, Cinematography
1969
Like Two Merry Aeronautsas narrator, Director, Writer
1967
The 300th BirthdayDirector


