Gerd Conradt was born in 1941 in Thuringia. After studying Photography, he started his film career at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin in 1968. After lecturing for about seven years at different Berlin universities, he directed a series of German poems for the Berlin broadcaster SFB. Since this time he has been working as a director and author for documentary films for television. He his well known for his long-term documentaries: "About Holger Meins" (1982), "The Video-Pioneer" (1984), "TV-Greetings from West to East" (1985), "Heavy User" (1989), "Hold Me - Love Me: Tempodrom in Berlin" (1995), "Dyngyldai" (1996), "Men and Stones" (1998), "A Portrait of Marceline Loridan" (1998) and "Starbuck - Holger Meins" (2001).

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