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Konrad Wolf Prize
The Konrad Wolf Prize (german: Konrad-Wolf-Preis) is a German performing arts, new media art and film award given since 1986 by the Academy of Arts, Berlin (formerly the East German Academy of Arts). It is named after the East German film director and former president of the Academy, Konrad Wolf. The prize is awarded annually, alternating between the Academy's Performing Arts Section and its Film and Media Art Section, and comes with a 5,000 Euros purse. Recipients * 1986: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann * 1987: Rainer Simon * 1988: Ruth Berghaus * 1988: Helke Misselwitz * 1990: Heiner Carow, Wolfram Witt * 1991: Katharina Thalbach * 1992: Peter Konwitschny * 1993: Margarethe von Trotta * 1994: Jürgen Flimm * 1995: Ken Loach * 1996: Christoph Marthaler * 1997: Volker Schlöndorff * 1998: Michael Haneke * 1999: Ula Stöckl * 2000: Klaus Michael Grüber * 2001: Agnès Varda * 2002: Jossi Wieler * 2003: Abbas Kiarostami * 2004: Lars von Trier * 2005: Andres Veiel * 2006: Wolfga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performing Arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance. Theatre, music, dance, object manipulation, and other kinds of performances are present in all human cultures. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times whereas circus skills date to at least Ancient Egypt. Many performing arts are performed professionally. Performance can be in purpose-built buildings, such as theatres and opera houses, on open air stages at festivals, on stages in tents such as circuses or on the street. Live performances before an audience are a form of entertainment. The development of audio and video recording has allowed for private consumption of the performing arts. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939 Friday) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for '' The Tin Drum'' (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Early life Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany to the physician Dr. Georg Schlöndorff. His mother was killed in a kitchen fire in 1944. His family moved to Paris in 1956, where Schlöndorff won awards at school for his work in philosophy. He graduated in political science at the Sorbonne, while at the same time studying film at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques, where he was friends with Bertrand Tavernier and met Loui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvis Hermanis
Alvis Hermanis is a Latvian theatre director, set designer and actor. Since 1997 he has worked at the New Riga Theatre ( lv, Jaunais Rīgas teātris) as artistic director. Early life and education Hermanis was born in Riga and in his early teens he played hockey in Dinamo Riga sports school. He was forced to leave sport at the age of 15 due to health reasons. He obtained his first theatre and stage experience when he attended Riga pantomime studio under Roberts Ligers. From 1981 until 1982 Hermanis attended the Riga Peoples artist studio. He continued his education from 1984 until 1988 in the theatre department of Latvian State conservatory. Career As an actor, Hermanis appeared in several feature films in the late 1980s. Aside from at the New Riga Theatre, Hermanis has directed several plays in Austria, Germany, Russia, Switzerland and elsewhere, and a number of New Riga Theatre plays have toured the whole of Europe. In 2003, Hermanis directed Nikolai Gogol's ''The Governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Mograbi
Avi Mograbi ( he, אבי מוגרבי; born May 9, 1956) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. Life and career Mograbi's grandfather founded The Mograbi Cinema ''(Kolnoa Mograbi)'', an Art Deco movie theatre in downtown Tel Aviv. Opened in 1930, it was probably Israel's most famous movie theater. It was the site of one of the largest celebrations following the 1948 partition and remained a vital national landmark until its demolition in the 1990s. Avi Mograbi was born in Tel Aviv to migrant parents. His mother fled to Palestine from Germany (at that time German Reich) in the 1930s; his father was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an Arab-speaking Jewish family. Like all Israeli citizens over the age of 18, he was required to join the Israel Defence Forces for military service. He was a non-combatant He became a reservist, and when in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon, he was recruited to serve as a combatant. He conscientiously objected and was jailed. He studied philosophy at Tel Aviv Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon McBurney
Simon Montagu McBurney (born 25 August 1957) is an English actor, playwright, and theatrical director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films '' The Manchurian Candidate'', '' Friends with Money'', '' The Last King of Scotland'', '' The Golden Compass'', '' The Duchess'', ''Robin Hood'', ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'', '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', '' Magic in the Moonlight'', '' The Theory of Everything'', and '' Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation''. He plays Cecil the choirmaster in BBC's '' The Vicar of Dibley''. Early life McBurney was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic of Scottish descent. His paternal great-grandfather was American surgeon Charles McBurney, who was credited with describing the medical sign McBurney's point. Simon McBurney's mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone (née Charles), was a British secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed '' Heimat film series'' (1984-2013). Early life and education Reitz was born in Morbach, Hunsrück. His father Robert was a watchmaker and his business in Morbach was later taken over by Reitz's brother Guido. Reitz's interest in acting and producing plays began in his school years in Simmern, where he was encouraged by his German teacher Karl Windhäuser. After taking his Abitur, he studied German studies, journalism, art history and theatre studies in Munich from 1952. His first experiences in film-making however were not theoretical; he worked as a camera, editing, and production assistant from 1953. His interests in the advancement of new developments in film went as far as he cooperated with Wolfgang Georgsdorf and his ''Osmodrama'' in 2016 which led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Veiel
Andres Veiel (born 16 October 1959) is a German film and theater director and writer. Biography From 1982 to 1988, Veiel studied Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and attended the director's class of Krzysztof Kieślowski at the Independent Berlin Artist Center Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 1985 to 1989. As professors, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien gathered other renowned International and European directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Patrice Chéreau and Robert Wilson. Veiel's first documentary film ''Winternachtstraum'' (''Winter Night's Dream'') resulted from his theatrical work with a group of senior actresses and premiered 1992 at the Duisburger Filmwoche, an annual festival for German-speaking documentaries. His next documentary about a Jewish-Palestinian theater group in Israel, ''Balagan'', won in 1993 the Findling Award than was screened at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and awarded with the Peace Film Award, the Camera Award and the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Von Trier
Lars von Trier (''né'' Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish filmmaker, actor, and lyricist. Having garnered a reputation as a highly ambitious, polarizing filmmaker, he has been the subject of several controversies: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, in addition to nominating and awarding his films on numerous occasions, once listed him as ''persona non grata'' for flippant Nazism, Nazi remarks during an interview; depictions of graphic violence and unsimulated sex in some of his films have drawn criticism; and he has been accused of mistreating actresses during filming, including Björk and Nicole Kidman. Trier's career has spanned more than four decades and his works have gained notoriety for his trademarks including European frequent actors (particularly Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgård), different thematic Trilogy, trilogies, Hand-held camera, handheld camerawork, upsetting subject matters, genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existentialism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the '' Koker'' trilogy (1987–1994), ''Close-Up'' (1990), ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' (1999), and ''Taste of Cherry'' (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, ''Certified Copy'' (2010) and ''Like Someone in Love'' (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. ''Close-Up'' was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial ''Sight & Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing women's issues, and other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style. Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema. Varda's feature film debut was ''La Pointe Courte'' (1955), followed by ''Cléo from 5 to 7'' (1962), one of her most notable narrative films, ''Vagabond'' (1985), and ''Kung Fu Master'' (1988). Varda was also known for her work as a documentarian wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
