science

Horst Burbulla

Horst Burbulla is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Horst Burbulla rather than just read about it. In short: Horst Burbulla (born 1959) is an Oscar-winning German inventor and entrepreneur. Life and work Burbulla was born in Poland and came to Bonn with his family at the age of seven.

Key takeaways

Horst Burbulla belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Horst Burbulla to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Horst Burbulla from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Horst Burbulla (born 1959) is an Oscar-winning German inventor and entrepreneur.

Life and work Burbulla was born in Poland and came to Bonn with his family at the age of seven. In the early 1980s, he made his first film, Liebe und Tod (Love and Death), in Bonn and Iceland. The North Rhine-Westphalian film subsidy supported the film with 100,000 DM. Unfortunately, this was not enough to rent a flexible mobile camera, so Burbulla built his own model, combining a camera crane system with a telescopic mechanism. In 1981, his Technocrane telescoping crane was first used for Steven Spielberg's film Raiders of the Lost Ark. In 1982, he founded the Orion company. The film Liebe und Tod was shown at the Locarno International Film Festival, but Burbulla caused more of a stir with his new invention, which Technovision London presented for the first time at a trade fair, Photokina in Cologne, in 1986. He was able to sell a copy of his crane to a Roman film company for 35,000 DM. In the same year, his camera crane was used for the film False Game with Roger Rabbit, thus achieving an international breakthrough. Initially, Burbulla was financed by Technovision in London, where he manufactured the parts for his cranes on their behalf. Then, after the fall of communism, he moved his company operations to Plzeň in the Czech Republic in 1990. Burbulla's telescopic cranes brought numerous new possibilities for the use of camera cranes in film and television shoots. The technology is especially needed for complicated camera movements in action films. His crane is currently being used, among other things, in the filming of Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron.

Awards In 2005, Burbulla received the Academy Award of Merit, Class I, for his invention and development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane. Actress Scarlett Johansson gave the laudation.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Horst Burbulla

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Horst Burbulla claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Horst Burbulla before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Horst Burbulla ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Horst Burbulla

In research: Horst Burbulla appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Horst Burbulla in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Horst Burbulla is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1959 births, 20th-century German businesspeople, 20th-century German inventors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Horst Burbulla outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

Ask Teacher Smith questions about this articleOpens your AI tutor with a question about “Horst Burbulla” →

Affiliate

Preply — study more efficiently by working with a personal tutor. 50% off.

How to study Horst Burbulla in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Horst Burbulla means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Horst Burbulla out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Horst Burbulla in simple terms?

Horst Burbulla (born 1959) is an Oscar-winning German inventor and entrepreneur. Life and work Burbulla was born in Poland and came to Bonn with his family at the age of seven.

Why does Horst Burbulla matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Horst Burbulla?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Horst Burbulla.