Wieland Speck
Wieland Speck | |
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 Wieland Speck in 2006 | |
| Born | 1951 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, author and publisher |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Wieland Speck (*
Biography
Since 1972, he started living in Berlin. He studied German, Theater and Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin. Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been engaged in various areas of film and video as well as author and publisher.
In the late 1970s, he was managing director of the Tali-Kino, an independent arthouse cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg (later called "Moviemento"). From 1979 to 1981 he completed a film study at the San Francisco Art Institute.[2]
Between 1982 and 1992 Speck worked with the German film director Manfred Salzgeber producing LGBT-themed films and shorts. He is the co-creator of the Teddy Award,[3] (with Manfred Salzgeber) which since 1987 was awarded to LGBT films at the Berlinale.
Openly gay,
In 1985, he produced his first feature film
He was a panel member of the Berlin State Film Fund (1990-1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994-1998) and from 1992 to 2017 he was head of the Panorama section of the Berlinale.[2]
In 2011 he won the Nino Gennaro Award at the first edition of Sicilia Queer filmfest.[3]
In 2015, Speck won the 20th Busan International Film Festival, Korean Cinema Award.[7]
In 2017, he became a consultant on the Berlinale official program.[8]
Filmography
As an actor;
| Year | Title | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Just a Gigolo | Man | Uncredited |
| 1980 | How to Choose a Wife | Cowboy | (Short) |
| 1982 | Rote Liebe - Wassilissa | Spekulant auf der Party | |
| 1987 | Kismet, Kismet | ||
| 1988 | The Venus Trap | ||
| Sleepless Nights | Schauspieler | ||
| 1989 | The Prisoner of St. Petersburg | Youth in bar | |
| 1992 | The True Story About Men and Women | ||
| 2012 | Mommy is Coming | Hans Eberhardt |
As a Director;
| Year | Film | Other notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (Director, Screenplay) |
| 1991 | Among Men | |
| Zimmer 303 | (Short) | |
| 1989 | November | (Short) |
| 1985 | Westler | (director, screenplay, production) |
| 1983 | The Sound of Fast Relief | (Short) (director, screenwriter, camera, editor) |
| 1981 | Bei uns zuhaus - Chez nous | (Short) |
| David, Montgomery und ich | (Short) (director, screenplay, camera, editor) |
Awards
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit[4]
- 2011: Nino Gennaro Award ( Sicilia Queer filmfest )[3]
- 2019: Berlinale Camera
References
- ISBN 978-1-57344-209-1
- ^ a b "Wieland Speck". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ a b c Marsala, Helga (6 February 2012). "Cinema e cultura omosex. Un premio e un film per ricordare Nino Gennaro, intellettuale maudit con la voglia di cambiare il mondo". Artribune (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ a b Kraushaar, Elmar (14 February 2012). "Die Wahrheit: DER HOMOSEXUELLE MANN". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8047-3995-5.
Among the gay male directors who merit more attention than space unfortunately allows, Wieland Speck is probably the best known--but more for his feature-length film, Westler, East of the Wall (1985), and for his programming as director of the Panorama section at the Berlin film festival, than for his shorts.
- ^ IMDB
- ^ "[2015 BIFF Press Release] Wieland SPECK Receives the Korean Cinema Award". www.biff.kr. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Mitchell, Robert (21 August 2017). "Berlin Film Festival's Wieland Speck Takes on New Role". Variety. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
External links
- Wieland Speck at IMDb
- Manfred Hermes (6 March 2003). "Die Wirtschaft verführen". Die Tageszeitung: Taz. p. 22. - interview over history and past of LGBT cino
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