At the short film festival in Cannes, a report about the extreme mountaineer Hermann Huber (91), who lives in Gaißach, received a special prize in the “Best Original Story” category.
Gaißach / Kochel am See / Bad Tölz
- At her "Alpen Film Festival" with six short films, Sandra Freudenberg from
Tölz
also included a portrait of the Gaißach-based extreme mountaineer, former Salewa managing director and equipment pioneer Hermann Huber (91).
The 15-minute long film by the Taubenberg-based director and author Tom Dauer recently received a very special award at the short film festival in Cannes: it was awarded the special prize “Best original Story”.
"We are very happy about this award," say Sandra Freudenberg and Tom Dauer.
The film received another award in New York from the renowned Directors Club.
Cinema version of BR contribution from "Bergauf-Bergab"
The contribution originally filmed for the BR mountaineering program “Bergauf-Bergab” was revised again for a theatrical version and supplemented, among other things, with historical material from the end of the war in Bad Reichenhall in 1945.
“The Value of Time” tells the life story of the mountaineering legend Hermann Huber.
In a time of youth craze, performance show and inflated self-presentation, which has long since captured the climbing and outdoor scene, this film stands for a return to the real values of the mountain experience: friendship and community, passion and the joy of life.
Sensitive person portrait
In his films, Tom Dauer makes it clear that he is interested in sensitive portraits of people that also look at what is deeply human and the breaks in their biography.
He sees himself as a storyteller who turns to his counterpart with an inner bond - as is customary among mountaineers, who join together to form a community of fate on a rope, almost essential for survival.
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Hermann Huber
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This is the attitude that Tom Dauer encounters with 91-year-old Hermann Huber, who can also be found more often in the Tölz climbing center.
The two have known each other for almost 40 years.
Their friendship was renewed four years ago when, together with Ralf Sussmann, he opened a new climbing route through the 1,100 meter high goal wall in the Karwendel: the wall that Hermann Huber was the first to climb in 1954.
Tom Dauer was deeply impressed by the senior of extreme climbing, who also has an apartment in Munich in addition to Gaißach: “He is the youngest 90-year-old I know.
Always interested and open to everything new, always turned towards others. "
Tom Duration: An ambitious all-rounder
As a child of development workers, Tom Dauer spent the first six years of his life in Mexico and then grew up in Munich.
There he studied German and politics, and also attended the journalism school.
He came to mountaineering at an early age through his parents and developed into an ambitious all-rounder who took part in expeditions and was involved in difficult first ascents in his mountain home.
He worked as a freelance assistant for the mountaineering program of Bavarian TV and acquired the skills as a mountaineer, screenwriter and director.
Mostly for “Servus TV”, Tom Dauer produced filmic monographs on prominent Alpine peaks and well-known personalities in mountaineering.
(Rainer Bannier)
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