Reiner Eberhard Moritz (born 1938 in

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

) is a German

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and film producer.

Biography

Moritz studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

, and

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is an academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak Romance languages. Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spa ...

. He graduated from the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

in 1970. In 1977, he founded the ''RM Creative Fernseh- und Film-GmbH'' in Munich, which still exists today. In 1978, he founded the RM Arts Fernseh- und Film GmbH, which later passed to the Kirch Group and since 2005 has rights to some 900 productions owned by the Arthaus Musik label. RM Arts produced a large number of documentaries in the field of music and

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

. In 1981, RM Arts started the series '' 1000 Meisterwerke'' for the WDR under the direction of Moritz. Moritz knew

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

and produced the documentary ''Ein Mann mit vielen Gesichtern'' ("A man with many faces") about him.

Honours

* 2007: Honorary

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Preis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Preis (1911–1993), Austrian architect * Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer * Mary Louise Preis (born 1941), ...

. * 2009: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the

Order of the Lion of Finland Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood ...

Filmography (selection)

As director

* 1981: ''1000 Meisterwerke'' (series) * 1991:

Werner Tübke Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen. Associated wi ...

. About the adventure of figuration * 2004: '' L'heure espagnole'' * 2006: ''The Real Rameau'' * 2014: ''Tanz macht Fernsehgeschichte''

As producer

* 1972: '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii'' * 1978: ''Monsieur René Magritte'' * 1984: ''Puccini'' * 1992: ''Das Doppelleben des Arnold Bax'' ("The Double Life of Arnold Bax") * 1998: In Rehearsal: Christoph von Dohnányi with the Philharmonia Orchestra

References

External links

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RM Arts on IMDb
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