Carsten Diercks was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 filmmaker.

Diercks started his career after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 at the radio station of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 until 31 December 1955. Until 1954, it was also responsible for broadcasting in West Berlin...

. 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

Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...

 to built up a national TV network in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

He was decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz

Bundesverdienstkreuz

The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has existed since 7 September 1951, and between 3,000 and 5,200 awards are given every year across all classes...

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Filmography

• 1955: Netz über Bord - Heringsfang auf der Nordsee
  Netz über Bord - Heringsfang auf der Nordsee (1955)
  Netz über Bord - Heringsfang auf der Nordsee is a 1955 German documentary about the herring fishing industry written and directed by Jürgen Roland....
  
  

External links

• Short biography of Carsten Diercks at Filmmuseum Hamburg (some examples of his work in for realplayer)
• Die Welt kommt in die Stube, DJV-Info, Issue 1/2001, S. 8