The filmmaker is considered one of the defining personalities of the “other cinema” of the 1960s and 1970s. Now he has died at the age of 86.
Hamburg / Frankfurt – The filmmaker Helmut Herbst died at the age of 86. The director and producer succumbed to an illness on Saturday (October 9th), as his son Moritz Herbst announced.
Herbst worked in Hamburg for a long time, from 1985 to 2000 he was professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HFG) Offenbach.
He lived with his wife in the municipality of Brombachtal in the Hessian Odenwaldkreis. Herbst was one of the defining personalities of the “other cinema” in the 1960s and 1970s and one of the founding members of the “Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative”, a distribution cooperative for independent films.
In 1962, Herbst founded the company Cinegrafik, which produced, among other things, animations for educational and industrial films as well as political-satirical animated films, including “Little Instruction for a Happy Life” or “Black-White-Red”, a critical examination of the “Bild” newspaper . Born on December 2, 1934 in Escherhof, Rhineland, his first feature film was made in autumn 1981/82 with “A German Revolution” based on Kasimir Edschmid’s novel “Georg Büchner – a German Revolution”. dpa
