Adrian Kutter

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Kutter (center) with Marianne Sägebrecht at the “ Filmfest Biberach ” 2003

Adrian Kutter (born February 21, 1943 in Tegernsee ) is a German former cinema owner and organizer of film festivals . Kutter is the founder of the Baden-Württemberg Film and Cinema Museum and the founder and former artistic director of the Biberach Film Festival , the “family get-together for German filmmakers”. At the end of the 40th edition in 2018, he gave up the management. His wife, the actress Helga Reichert, became the new director.

Life

Adrian Kutter is the son of the director Anton Kutter , who made a name for himself as an amateur astronomer and designer of a new mirror telescope , the Kutter-Schiefspiegler .

He first studied business administration in Mannheim and in 1972 took over the management of the Kutter film theater company in Biberach from his father. In addition to the operation and expansion of the cinema halls, originally “Urania” and “Filmtheater”, then also “Sternchen” and “Stardust”, today “Star Palace” with eight halls, Adrian Kutter dedicated himself very early to supporting the art of film.

On May 8, 2010 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg by Prime Minister Stefan Mappus .

Biberach film festival

In 1979 he initiated the Biberach Film Festival . In addition to his membership in the jury of the Berlinale 1989 and the chairmanship of the guild of German film art theaters , Kutter became known as an advisor to the former Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Lothar Späth on the establishment of the Baden-Württemberg Film Fund and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . In addition, for many years Kutter was chairman and representative of the Wiesbaden film evaluation office , which awards the ratings “valuable” or “particularly valuable”, among other things. Kutter is a voluntary member of the board of directors of the FV Biberach club . In August 2007 Adrian Kutter handed over the Star Palace to the cinema operator Lochmann and, according to his own statements, withdrew from active cinema operations for reasons of age, but remained director of the Biberach Film Festival.

Kutter maintains close and good contacts with a number of important German directors such as Joseph Vilsmaier , Werner Herzog , Volker Schlöndorff and Douglas Wolfsperger . Wolfsperger in particular, who was also internationally successful with his film Bellaria , was and is supported by Kutter.

As part of the program design in the regular operation of his cinemas, Kutter repeatedly set clear signs that he is not only interested in purely economic success: In 2007 he showed a special series of film adaptations of all Wagner operas and he does not shy away from directing filmmakers who got into trouble support. This is what happened with the filmmaker Leo Hiemer , who in 1994 had not found a distribution company for the film Leni muss weg and was shown several times in direct distribution in Biberach. Young directors like Philipp Kässbohrer (SWR) are important to Kutter and have the opportunity to present their films to an audience not only during the Biberach Film Festival.

Crank camera from around 1900, exhibit in the Baden-Württemberg Film and Cinema Museum in Biberach / Riß

Film and Cinema Museum Baden-Württemberg

At the end of 2008, Kutter opened the Baden-Württemberg Film and Cinema Museum in Biberach an der Riß in the Star Palace, which has been offering regular tours since January 2009. The exhibits include valuable individual items such as hand crank cameras, wooden tripods and an original cinema projection room from 1949 (origin: Basel). Adrian Kutter is personally available for guided tours on request. As the founder of the Film and Cinema Museum, which is also supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg, Kutter explains the development of cinema technology from 1900 to today.

Cinema sound system from around 1920, shellac records (length approx. 1 act = 11 minutes) were started "by hand" with the roll of film. Exhibition piece in the Film and Cinema Museum Baden-Württemberg in Biberach / Riss

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Schlöndorff in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of July 25, 2005.
  2. ↑ Founder of the Biberach Film Festival gives up directorship . Article dated November 5, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: New director of the Biberach Film Festival. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ film-kinomuseum-bw.de
  5. ↑ Filmkunstmesse Leipzig: Awarding of the Gilde Film Awards 2017 . Article dated September 29, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kutter, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinema owner and organizer of film festivals
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegernsee (city)