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Konrad Wolf (20 October 1925 – 7 March 1982) was an East German film director. He was the son of writer, doctor and diplomat Friedrich Wolf, and the younger brother ...
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) The fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification in the early 1990s marked the beginning of a new era and saw the birth of the Media City. Covering an area of 46 hectares, today's Babelsberg is home to 16 film studios and 100 businesses with a total of some 1,750 staff members.
October 20, 1925 - March 07, 1982. Konrad Wolf. Konrad Wolf, born in Hechingen in 1925, was the second son of the doctor and playwright Friedrich Wolf, who campaigned to have abortion legalized in the 1920s and joined the KPD as a respected public health expert in 1928. Konrad Wolf, his parents and his older brother Markus, later the Deputy ...
The Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, located in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, is the oldest and largest film school in the country. Founded in 1954 as the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (German Academy for Film Art), it was renamed in 1985 after the influential German-Jewish filmmaker Konrad Wolf. With approximately 800 students as ...
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Creativity in connection with the topic „Film“ is abundant in Potsdam. Since 1911, Potsdam has developed into an important film city. This applies to the continuous production of films for more than a 100 years in the old Babelsberg Studios, but also to the City itself as a film setting in various feature films and TV-productions. In Potsdam, many ...
When scouting for suitable locations, filming permits and equipment, national and international filmmakers get professional assistance at the Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission (bbfc). In addition, Potsdam features an excellent infrastructure, skilled film professionals and a broad mix of experienced and innovative companies in the areas of film, T...
Film also plays a growing role in Potsdam`s sector of tourism. The Film Museum located in the former horse stables of the Prussian kings, reflects a hundred years of German film history. In 1993, Filmpark Babelsberg, a film based theme-park, opened its gates. Metropolis Halle is part of the park. Every year, the park is visited by several hundred t...
In Potsdam, film history and current media technologies are the subject of research in several educational institutions. The city is an excellent science base for the studies of film practice, film cultural heritage and new film technologies. Focal point is the internationally renowned Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, the oldest film high sc...
The investments in the expansion of the Media City in Potsdam-Babelsberg are an important sign for the strengthening of the film and media location. Examples are the planned new show depository of the collections of the Film Museum Potsdam and the new building for the costume collection of the Film Park Babelsberg. Further objectives over the next ...
Lisa Nawrocki – Head of UNESCO Creative City of Film Potsdam Office creativecityoffilm@potsdam.de Dr. Sigrid Sommer – Head of Marketing, Landeshauptstadt Potsdam marketing@rathaus.potsdam.de Stefan Frerichs – Head of Business Development, Landeshauptstadt Potsdam wirtschaftsfoerderung@rathaus.potsdam.de
SOLO SUNNY (1980), Konrad Wolf's last completed film, is significant not only within the director's oeuvre but also in the history of DEFA film as a whole. It marks not only a generic breakthrough for a director otherwise better known for his antifascist films of the Second World War but also the tail end of a group of late-’60s and ‘70s DEFA women’s films, and the last gasp of the final ...
Konrad Wolf, I want to examine the variety and potential of such cine-matic innovations as a way of evaluating his success and reception. Thematically Wolf's oeuvre does manifest a remarkable continuity in its preoccupation with the German past, with the quest for a position from which one might explain the vicissitudes of recent Ger-man history.
