Ernst Reinboth(1935-2016)

Ernst Reinboth was born on February 8, 1935 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and producer for short films, known for Interferenzen (1967), Aleph (1968), Der Sucher (1976), Die Abstrakte Oper Nr.1 (1978), Licht Skulptur Raum (1979), Das Tor (1986). The films were accompanied with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, György Ligeti and Maurice Ravel, and especially with new music and experimental sounds by Boris Blacher, Karlheinz Wahren, Rüdiger Rüfer and Nikolai Badinski. Besides the music many of his short films were accompanied by literary texts by Dante, Gottfried Benn and Samuel Beckett. The texts were spoken by actors such as Ernst Schröder and Will Quadflieg. The collaboration with artists such as Michael Schwarze, Bernhard Heiliger and Edith Türckheim led to the emergence of the films Aleph, Licht Skulptur Raum and Yang and Ying. He died on December 24, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.