Carsten Diercks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German film director
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Place of Birth: Preetz Priory, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Carsten Diercks
- Carsten Diercks (1921 - 2 November 2009) was a German documentary filmmaker. Diercks started his career after World War II at the radio station of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
- 1952 he became cinematographer with NWDR TV station.
- In 1953, he participated in the first tests of pilot tone.
- During his long occupation for the network, he made some 500 documentaries as cinematographer, director or executive producer.
- He was the driving representative of the so-called Hamburgian school, which aimed to comply the documentary genre with new requirements of television broadcasting.In 1959, he worked as a consultant for Minister of Information and Broadcasting Indira Gandhi to build up a national TV network in India He was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
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