Albrecht goodbye

Albrecht Ade (born September 14, 1932 in Tübingen ) is a German emeritus (Prof. em.), Photographer , animator and founding director of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , who works in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg .

education

From 1952 to 1956 Albrecht Ade studied typography and book graphics with Walter Brudi at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . From 1963 to 1964 he was a visiting student at the University of Cologne for theory of mass communication with Alphons Silbermann .

academic career

Albrecht Ade taught typography at the University of Applied Sciences for the Graphic Industry in Stuttgart from 1956 to 1960. From 1960 to 1970 Ade worked as a lecturer for typography and graphic design at the Art School Wuppertal operates. In 1971 he was appointed professor of visual communication and animation in the Department of Art and Design of the University of Wuppertal appointed. From 1975 to 1976 he was dean of the art and design department at the University of Wuppertal. In the 1976/77 winter semester he was offered a position at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart for the graphic design department (successor to Eugen Funk ). There, as part of the graphic design diploma course established in 1977, he set up an AV workshop and the animation film study group and headed it until 1991. The study group made its first comprehensive appearance in 1982 with the “Film Drawings” exhibition accompanied by a catalog on the occasion of the “1. International Animated Film Festival Stuttgart ”in the state pavilion Baden-Württemberg. The animated film contributions from the students Roman Lang, Thomas Meyer-Hermann , Christoph Simon, Renate Stürmer and Helga Thamm, whose "realization from the idea to the script to the shooting and production was done independently by the filmmaker", turned out to be “A liberation from the narrow formal shackles of the conventional medium” and “programmatic opening for many design techniques”. The series of exhibitions “Between Study and Practice”, started by Albrecht Ade in 1979, enriched the Academy's events over a longer period of time.

Act

In 1969, Ade founded and took over the management of the animation film work group (Wuppertal Manifesto of Animated Films). He had stays in the Kratky animation studios in Prague . 1969 to 1975 he produced (directed) animation films (Play 25, Banz remains Banz, 9.9.1999). Ade took part in festivals in Oberhausen, Mannheim, Annecy , Zagreb , London , Hiroshima , among others . In 1982 he founded the Stuttgart International Animated Film Festival and directed it until 2002. Since 1990, the international animation festival competition has been the most artistically demanding animation film competition in the world . The number of visitors in 2002 was around 50,000. From 1987 to 1988 he carried out the research project Computer Animation, New Digital Techniques in Media Application on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Art in cooperation with the TC Studios in Ludwigsburg and the lecturer Thomas Haegele . He ran his studio for graphic design and animation film, image films, educational films and commercials from 1972 to 1989.

Postage stamp designed by Ade from 1981

In 1977 Ade founded the class for animation ("animation class") and took over its leadership at the Stuttgart Art Academy .

In 1991 Albrecht Ade set up the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, as its founding director from 1991 to 2000. He was responsible for the location decision for Ludwigsburg in the former Mathilden barracks area, for the concept and structure of the teaching of the Film Academy, for the development of a modern technology and for the recruitment of highly qualified teaching staff.

For decades, Albrecht Ade was a conceptual sponsor and architect of Baden-Württemberg as a media location . For this reason, the Supervisory Board of the Film Academy showed understanding that Ade, after more than 25 years of responsibility for film in Baden-Württemberg, ended his work as artistic director of the Film Academy. Ade is still a member of the award committee of the Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG) and a member of the program selection for the international competition at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival.

The now emeritus professor is chairman of the Friends of the Film Academy ( Friends of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy since 1993). Until 2003 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Film- und Medienfestival GmbH, which is responsible for organizing the European Short Film Biennale in Ludwigsburg .

Honors

1997: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Wolfgang Kermer : The professors of the graphic design, interior architecture and design department: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1981 (publication on the occasion of the Baden-Baden State Art University Weeks, June 5-21, 1981)
Wolfgang Kermer (Hrsg.): Between book art and book design: Book designer of the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart: examples of works and texts. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1996. ISBN 3-89322-893-4 .
Albrecht Ade: Cologne. City for people , Cologne 1980, 50-page brochure of the city of Cologne, text and photographs by Albrecht Ade

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [15].
↑ Ders .: Summary report by the Rector for the period from July 1, 1980 to December 31, 1982 before the Senate of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on January 25, 1983 . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1983, pp. 64, 67, 135 (article beautiful without background: animated film drawings in the Stuttgarter Landespavillon , Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 20, 1982, in facsimile).
↑ Ders .: Address for the opening of the exhibition “Film Drawings” on January 12, 1982 in the Stuttgart State Pavilion . In: Ders .: "1968" and academy reform: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart academy in the 1970s . Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN 3-89322-446-7 , p. 87.
↑ That. (as editor): Between book art and book design: Book designer of the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart: examples of works and texts . Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1996 ISBN 3-89322-893-4 , p. 162.

Web links

Literature by and about Albrecht Ade in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Goodbye, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German founding director of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tübingen

[1] Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [15].

[2] Ders .: Summary report by the Rector for the period from July 1, 1980 to December 31, 1982 before the Senate of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on January 25, 1983 . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1983, pp. 64, 67, 135 (article beautiful without background: animated film drawings in the Stuttgarter Landespavillon , Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 20, 1982, in facsimile).

[3] Ders .: Address for the opening of the exhibition “Film Drawings” on January 12, 1982 in the Stuttgart State Pavilion . In: Ders .: "1968" and academy reform: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart academy in the 1970s . Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN 3-89322-446-7 , p. 87.

[4] That. (as editor): Between book art and book design: Book designer of the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart: examples of works and texts . Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1996 ISBN 3-89322-893-4 , p. 162.