Background
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein is the son of the painter Karl Schmidt-Reitwein.
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein is the son of the painter Karl Schmidt-Reitwein.
He went to Waldorfschool and afterward he studied Physics for a few semester also in Lübeck.
He has collaborated with director Werner Herzog on a number of projects. Early life and family The first twelve years of his life he has been in Lübeck. Early career Then he switched on to the Film Industry and went for that in 1959 to Berlin.
He did some various practicum in different film management area such as synchron studio, film laboratory, and sound studio.
Suddenly his career structure broke up, as he was captured there after building the Berlin wall, on the east communist side, as he tried to help his girlfriend be transported to the west. In such a fast political juristic show-process he was sentenced for 5 years imprisonment as an accused human dealer and a bounty hunter.
After spending moore then 3 years in penitentiary, the west-government dealt in a conspirative action for his freedom against 84.000DM worth of butter. Career as a cinematographer He started his Professional career again from the very beginning.
In the first instance as camera assistant in Munich.
In 1969 Werner Herzog gave him his greatest chance for the first time by a DokuFeature Film as Director of Photography. Thereby emerged the most promising film critics foreign Thereafter he worked together 17 more movies and documentary films with Werner Herzog himself.
On top of this, he also worked with various well known numbers of directors such as Alexander Kluge, Herbert Achternbusch, Josef Bierbechler, hockey club Blumenberg, Werner Schroeter, Alan Greenberg, Markus Fischer, Douglas Wolfsperger, Andre Heller, et cetera
He gathered 2 German Film ed in gold for his light speciality on his films he worked together with Werner Herzog. Schmidt-Reitwein had worked in Ludwigsburg Film Academy and University of the Philippines ( Film Academy in Manila) as a Lecturer.
He also works for television, shooting many commercials for Nike, Master Card, Swiss Com, Mercedes - Benz.