Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosoph ...

: for '' Buena Vista Social Club'' (1999), about Cuban music culture; '' Pina'' (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer

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; and '' The Salt of the Earth'' (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. One of Wenders's earliest honors was a win for the

BAFTA Award for Best Direction The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a film director for a specifi ...

for his narrative drama '' Paris, Texas'' (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including ''

Wings of Desire ''Wings of Desire'' (, ; ) is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of it ...

'' (1987), for which he won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director.

Early life

Wenders was born in

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into a traditionally Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. The Dutch name "Wim" is a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm". As a boy, Wenders took unaccompanied trips to

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to visit the

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. He graduated from high school in

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in the

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. He then studied medicine at the

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(1963–64) and philosophy at the University of Dusseldorf (1964–65), but dropped out and moved to Paris in October 1966 in order to become a painter. Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school, IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver at

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's studio in Montparnasse. During this time Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater. Set on making his obsession his life's work, he returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of

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. That fall, he entered the

University of Television and Film Munich The University of Television and Film Munich (German: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, short: HFF Munich) is a publicly funded film school in Munich, Germany. The school was established in 1966 by decree of the Bavarian government. T ...

(HFF). Between 1967 and 1970, while at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic for ''FilmKritik'', the Munich daily newspaper ''

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'', ''

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'' magazine, and ''

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''. Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a

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black-and-white film, '' Summer in the City'' (1970), his feature directorial debut.

Career

Wenders's career began in the late 1960s, the New German Cinema era. Much of the distinctive

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in his movies is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller. '' Paris, Texas'' and ''

'' were the result of collaborations with ''avant-garde'' authors Sam Shepard and Peter Handke. Handke's novel ''

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'' was adapted for Wenders's second feature film, ''

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''. Handke co-wrote the script for ''

''.

Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably '' Buena Vista Social Club'' (1999), about Cuban musicians, and ''

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'' (2003), on American blues. He also directed a documentary-style film on the Skladanowsky brothers, known in English as ''A Trick of the Light''. The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing "moving pictures" when several others like the

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and William Friese-Greene were doing the same. '' Buena Vista Social Club'' and his documentaries on

, '' Pina'', and Sebastiao Salgado, '' The Salt of the Earth'', received nominations for the

. Wenders has also directed many music videos for groups such as U2 and

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, including " Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and "

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". His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer. Wenders's book ''Emotion Pictures'', a collection of diary essays written as a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on

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, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves,

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, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatised by Neil Cargill. In 2015, Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, ''Wim Wenders – Visions on Film'', when Porter died. The film remains incomplete. Wenders is a member of the advisory board of

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. The project was founded by

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and aims to find and reconstruct world cinema films that have been neglected. As of 2015 he served as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals. In 2011, Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of

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's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' at the

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. The project fell through when he insisted on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive. In 2012, while promoting his 3-D dance film '' Pina'', Wenders told the

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Blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture.
He also said he would only work in 3-D from then on. Wenders had admired the dance choreographer

since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen. In June 2017, Wenders stage-directed

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's opera ''

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'', starring Olga Peretyatko and Francesco Demuro and conducted by

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at the

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br>(Staatsoper)
In a 2018 interview, Wenders said his favorite movie of all time was his film about

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, and that his entire career had been building up to it. His admiration for Francis is profound; he said he felt Francis is doing his best in a world full of calamities. He also said that, though raised Catholic, he had converted to Protestantism years earlier. In 2019 Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary ''A Black Jesus'', which has similar themes to ''Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.'' The film explores the role of religion in communal identity and how this can create or dissolve differences in a small Sicilian town during the height of the refugee crisis. Lucchesi noted that Wenders pushed the film to be more symbolic and philosophical, saying that Wenders wanted the film to have a "universal fairy-tale aspect" and to represent "Europe in a nutshell."

Photography

Wenders has worked with photographic images of desolate landscapes and themes of memory, time, loss, nostalgia and movement. He began his long-running project "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" in the early 1980s and pursued it for 20 years. The initial photographic series was titled "Written in the West" and was produced while Wenders criss-crossed the American West in preparation for his film '' Paris, Texas'' (1984). It became the starting point for a nomadic journey across the globe, including Germany, Australia, Cuba, Israel and Japan, to take photographs capturing the essence of a moment, place or space.

Legacy and honors

Wenders has received many awards, including the

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for '' The State of Things'' at the

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(1982); the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his movie '' Paris, Texas''; and Best Direction for ''

'' in the 1987 Bavarian Film Awards
and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Director for ''

Faraway, So Close! ''Faraway, So Close!'' (german: In weiter Ferne, so nah!) is a 1993 German fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. It is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film ''Wings of Desire''. Actors ...

'' in 1993. In 2004, he received the Master of Cinema Award of the

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. He was awarded the Leopard of Honour at the

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in 2005. In 2012, his dance film '' Pina'' was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature of the 84th Academy Awards. Wenders also received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for the film. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989, the

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(Switzerland) in 1995 and the

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, Belgium in 2005. The Wim Wenders Foundation was established in Düsseldorf in 2012. The foundation provides a framework to bring together his cinematic, photographic, artistic and literary works in his native country and to make it permanently accessible to the public. Wenders was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015. In 2016, Wenders received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland, one of the highest-endowed cultural honorings in Germany, with previous winners such as photographer legend Hilla Becher, sculptor

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, musician

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and director Sönke Wortmann. In 2017, Wenders received the Douglas Sirk Award at the Hamburg Film Festival.

Personal life

Wenders lives and works in Berlin with his wife, Donata. He has lived in Berlin since the mid-1970s. He is an

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Christian; as a teenager he wished to become a Catholic priest. He supports German football club

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. In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director

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, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely" and argued that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door to "actions of which no-one can know the effects."

Filmography

Films

Music videos and commercials

Other film work

Selected exhibitions

1986–1992

*Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987), touring exhibition: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986); Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra (1987); Palazzo della Triennale di Milano (1988); Film Society of Miami (1988); Goethe Institut, Stockholm (1988); Goethe Institut, Copenhagen (1988); Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche (1990); Städtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg (Breisgau) (1992)

1989–1994

*Wim Wenders Photographs, touring exhibition: Galerie F. C Gundlach, Hamburg (1989); Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zürich (1990); Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich (1991); Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (1991); Shibuya Seibu Dept. Store, Tokyo (1992); Kiyomizu *Temple, Kyoto (1992);

Musée de l'Élysée Musée de l'Élysée is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.

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(1992); Amerika Haus, Berlin (1992); Venice Biennale (1993); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (1993); Sala Parpallo Palau Dels Scala, Valencia (1994); San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian (1994)

1993–1995

*Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001), touring exhibition: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (1993); Villa delle Rose, Bologna (1994); FNAC, Paris (1994); Parco, Tokyo (1994); FNAC, Berlin (1995); Villa Rufolo, Ravello (1995)

1995

*Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, California

1996

*Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica *Wim Wenders: Photos, in conjunction with the publication, Wim Wenders: Photos, Munich Goethe Institute (1996), Goethe Institutes worldwide

2000

*Buena Vista Social Club, Rose Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California

2000–2004

*Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2002), Haunch of Venison, London (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2004)

2003

*Wim Wenders, James Cohan Gallery, New York *Wim Wenders, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich, Switzerland

2004

*Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Australia and Japan, James Cohan Gallery, New York *Between The Lines, group exhibition,

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, New York *Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, group exhibition, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York *Wim Wenders, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy *Through the Lens: Eight Photographers, group exhibition, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. Wendersinterview

2004–2005

*Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus C, Denmark

2005

*The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina *Through the Lens, group exhibition, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland

2006

*Wim Wenders: Immagini dal pianeta terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy *Journey to Onomichi – Photos by Wim and Donata Wenders, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan *Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, images from touring exhibition, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia *Dark Places, curated by Joshua Decter, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California

2010

*Places, strange and quiet, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, BR

2011

*Places, strange and quiet, Haunch of Venison, London, UK

2012

*Places Strange and Quiet, Ostlicht. Galerie Für Fotografie, Vienna, AT *Places, strange and quiet, Harald Falckenberg Exhibition Space, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE *Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RU

2013

*Wim Wenders. Appunti di Viaggio. Armenia Giappone Germani. Villa Pignatelli, Naples, IT *Wim Wenders: Photographs, Fundació Sorigué, Leida, ES

2014

*Wim Wenders: Places Strange & Quiet, GL Strand, Copenhagen, DK *Wim Wenders: Urban Solitude, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, IT

2015

*Wim Wenders: America, Villa e collezione la Panza, Varese, IT *Wim Wenders: 4REAL & TRUE2. Wim Wenders. Landscapes and Photographs, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE *"time capsules. by the side of the road. Wim Wenders' recent photographs", BlainSouthern, Berlin, DE *"In broad daylight even the sounds shine. Wim Wenders scouting in Portugal", curated by Anna Duque y González and Laura Schmidt Reservatório da Mãe d'Água das Amoreiras, Lisbon

2016

"The Space Between the Characters Can Carry the Load", Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum for modern Art, Bremen, DE

2017/2018

"Instant Stories/Wim Wenders' Polaroids", The Photographers' Gallery, London, from 20 October 2017 to 11 February 2018.

Installation art

2019

''(E)motion''

2020

''Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper''

2022

''Presence''

Selected bibliography

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References

External links

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Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

including biography, filmography and photos
Wim Wenders — Film — The Guardian
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