Born in Morbach, in the Hunsrück hills, in 1932, Edgar Reitz was among the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and an early teacher at the Ulm Institute of Design. He is best known for his Heimat cycle, a chronicle of twentieth-century Germany seen through the lives of ordinary people in a fictional Hunsrück village called Schabbach. Heimat (1984), which runs nearly sixteen hours, was shown on television and in cinemas all over the world, followed by Die Zweite Heimat (1992), Heimat 3 (2004) and the prequel Home from Home (2013).
Filmography
- Zero Hour (1977)
- Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984)
- The Second Heimat (1992)
- Heimat 3 (2004)
- Home from Home (2013)