Ulrich Schamoni
Illustration — Ulrich Schamoni 1997 Ulrich Schamoni (9 November 1939 – 9 March 1998) was a German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor.
Ulrich Schamoni

Ulrike Schamoni · Privatfoto · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1939 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1998 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- film director · screenwriter · media proprietor · television director · actor · entrepreneur · film producer
- Honours
- German Film Award for Best Direction · German Film Award for Best Feature Film
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Ulrich Schamoni 1997 Ulrich Schamoni (9 November 1939 – 9 March 1998) was a German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor.
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Biography
Biography
Schamoni began his career as an assistant director, among others for William Dieterle. He was a signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962. His first feature film, It (1966), won five German Film Awards. His 1967 film Next Year, Same Time won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. He was the brother of Peter Schamoni, also a film director and producer. Ulrich Schamoni died on the March 9, 1998 in Berlin as a result of a cancer illness and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf in that city's Zehlendorf district.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• 1966: It • 1967: Next Year, Same Time • 1968: Quartett im Bett • 1970: We Two • 1971: Eins • 1973: ' • 1979: ' • 1985: ' (as actor) • 2011: Farewell to the Frogs (final film, edited by his daughter Ulrike)

Graves, Ulrich Schamoni, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, Berlin-Nikolassee, Germany
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1939
Ulrich Schamoni born at Berlin.
1998
Ulrich Schamoni died at Berlin.
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- 1.Maria Schamoni: Meine Schamonis. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, München 1983, S. 158–1959.
- 2.Ulrich Schamoni: Ullis Allerlei. Dokumentarfilm 1982.
- 3.Lutz Hachmeister, Christine Schulte: „… sobald Sie Erfolg haben, geraten Sie in die Schußlinie“. Gespräch mit Ulrich Schamoni. In: Medium, Nr. 4, 1984.
- 4.Biografie von Ulrich Schamoni. In: Hilmar Hoffmann (Hrsg.): Peter Schamoni Filmstücke. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2003, S. 193.
- 5.Ulrich Schamoni auf schamoni.de, abgerufen am 24. März 2015.
- 6.Peter W. Jansen: Das doppelte Leben. In: Der Tagesspiegel, 11. März 1998, S. 31.
- 7.Meldung der Produktionsfirma Ziegler Film
- 8.ABSCHIED VON DEN FRÖSCHEN, berlinale.de, Berlinale 2012, S. 370
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