Herwig Kipping

Herwig Kipping (born 31 March 1948) is a German film director and script writer.

Life Herwig Kipping was born in Meyhen, a hamlet of fewer than 200 people located between Weimar and Leipzig, nearly 9 km south of Naumburg. At that time the area was part of the Soviet occupation zone. His father was a farmer and headed a local Agricultural Production Cooperative shortly after the boy was born. at a VEB "Walter Ulbricht" Leuna chemical plant in southern Halle. However, before completing the course at the plant he returned to school to pass the final exams. According to another more succinct source, he discovered that he was being prepared for a career in the Central Statistical Office. During his time at the Humboldt Kipping developed an intense love for the works of philosopher-poets such as Georg Heym, Trakl, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky and, most particularly, Nietzsche. The next year he produced a short documentary film with the title "Sechs auf dem Dach" (1984) about a team of roofers. However, this was modified before release, and Kipping became involved in a furious dispute about the changes made to it. and responded by resigning from the Deutscher Fernsehfunk. His next film, , appeared in 1993. However, in 1992 the old DEFA studios were sold, and an inability to attract further funding proved as effective a block on Kipping's film directing career as the bureaucratic obstruction he had faced in the 1980s.