EKW Public Ceremony: After a Year + The Brave Truant

EKW public event: After one year, GDR 1987, R: Winfried Junge, 15 min,

The Brave Truant, GDR 1967, directed by Winfried Junge with André Kallenbach, Hartmut Tietz, Günter Ott, 67 min

In presence: André Kallenbach, Barbara and Winfried Junge and Peter Gotthardt

Honorary membership was then awarded to the director couple

Barbara and Winfried Junge from the European Cultural Workshop Berlin-Vienna (EKW) by Sibylle Princess of Prussia, laudatory speech: F. B. Habel, moderated by KS Heiko Reissig

The Brave Truant (DEFA 1967)

was filmed in 1967 in Berlin between Schönhauser Allee, Alexanderplatz and Fischerinsel. It was the only feature film directed by documentary filmmaker Winfried Junge. Claus Neumann was at the camera and the film music was written by Peter Gotthardt, who became famous in 1973 with “The Legend of Paul and Paula.” André Kallenbach, who later worked as an advertising specialist, played the leading role of an imaginative twelve-year-old who dreamt about starting school and helps extinguish a fire in a residential building.

Winfried Junge

Berliner born in 1935, teacher studies at Humboldt University, moved to the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film School, which he left in 1958 as a graduate film dramaturge, journalistic work for magazines such as “Forum” and “Die Weltbühne”, from 1961 the series The Chronicle of the Children of Golzow, which continued in 18 films up to the 2000s and is thus the most extensive long-term observation of film history. Junge shot a total of 52 documentaries on various topics.

Barbara Junge,

born Becher, was born in Neunhofen in Thuringia in 1943. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter, she studied languages in Leipzig, came to Berlin as an interpreter at the DEFA documentary studio, where she met Winfried Junge and initially worked as an archivist on the Golzow Project in 1978 before becoming co-director of the Golzow Project and other films by Winfried Junge.