12 Facts About Hugo Niebeling

Hugo Niebeling was a German film director and producer.

Hugo Niebeling had been particularly noted for his work on industrial and music films, and is considered one of the most important renewers of these genres in Germany.

Hugo Niebeling's style is credited to have influenced and helped create the modern music video.

In 1957, Hugo Niebeling directed his first film Stahlerne Adern, a documentary about steel-production at Mannesmann AG, inspired by the German experimental director Walter Ruttmann.

Hugo Niebeling's short film Stahl - Thema mit Variationen is a good example, being an audiovisual poem on steel-production, using only sound and image to explain its subject without any voice-over or other narration.

In 1962, Hugo Niebeling created the Oscar-nominated documentary Alvorada - Brazil's Changing Face, which received numerous awards.

Hugo Niebeling created a radical Oscar-nominated editing style that predated, influenced, and informed the 1960s experimental, underground, and new psychedelic cinema, helping to create the modern music video.

In 1991, Hugo Niebeling directed a feature-film in Germany showing the passion of Christ based on Bach's Johannespassion, evoking antique tragedy with its combination of music, language and dance.

Hugo Niebeling planned it for three decades prior to realizing it, and himself considers it one of his most important works.

Hugo Niebeling was present for the screenings, and films from all stages of his career were shown.

Since the early 2000s, Hugo Niebeling had many of his earlier works scanned in 2k or 4k from the original 35mm negatives, and they were color corrected and restored under his supervision.

Until his death, Hugo Niebeling continued to be active as a director, planning numerous new projects.