Alfred Holighaus

Ulrich Höcherl (BlickpunktFilm) and Alfred Holighaus (SPIO) at the NRW Cinema Program Award, November 2016, Cologne.

Alfred Holighaus (born February 1, 1959 in Dillenburg ) is a German author and film salesman. From 2011 to 2019 he was full-time President of the Central Organization of the Film Industry (SPIO).

biography

From 1980 Holighaus studied theology in Tübingen and Berlin. At the same time, he began his journalistic career at the specialist magazine Filmecho / Filmwoche and the city and culture magazine TIP in Berlin, of which he was editor from 1986 to 1995. From 1992 onwards, Holighaus was also editorially responsible for the programs "TIP TV" and Kinotipps on ORB television . Since 2012 he has been a columnist on film policy for the journal Blickpunkt: Film .

In 1995 he switched to the film industry . At Senator Film Produktion , he was in charge of project development as well as material and film purchasing until 2000. In addition, as a dramaturge and producer , Holighaus oversaw the in-house and co-productions of the house (including Comedian Harmonists , 1997; Kleines Arschloch , 1997, Bang Boom Bang - Ein todicheres Ding , 1999; Helden wie wir (film) , 1999; Käpt'n Blaubär - Der Film , 2000; Now or Never (Film) , 2000; The Experiment (Film) , 2001). From 2000 to 2001 he was managing director of Senator Film Verleih GmbH.

After retiring from Senator, he worked as a freelance writer and producer of documentaries ( Fallen Angel - Gram Parsons (film) , 2004; Spur der Bären (film) , 2010; Merle Haggard - Learning To Live With Myself (film) , 2010).

As a guest lecturer , he taught in 2002/03 in the media management / production department at the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf film academy . In several films - u. a. Gorilla Bathes at Noon (D: Dusan Makavejev), 1991-1993; Everything at the beginning (D: Reinhard Münster), 1993/1994; Happy Weekend (D: Ed Herzog), 1995–96 and Heil (D: Dietrich Brüggemann), 2015 - he has cameo appearances as an actor.

In 2001 he moved from the film industry to the Berlinale . There, on the initiative of Dieter Kosslick , Holighaus founded the new section "Perspektive Deutsches Kino", which he profiled as a platform for talent and which he headed until 2010. He was also a permanent member of the selection committee for the Berlinale competition.

In 2012 Holighaus was awarded the honorary prize at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken for special services to young German-language film .

From January 2010 to July 2015 he worked as managing director for the German Film Academy .

Holighaus was and is active in various honorary positions for the film, including at the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA). He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for Young German Film and the Film Program Advisory Board at the Goethe Institute . Holighaus is a member of the European Film Academy and an honorary member of the German Film Academy. He was a member of various film and television juries (including the Adolf Grimme Prize , European Film Prize, Max Ophüls Prize, Studio Hamburg Young Talent Prize). From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the BKM Jury Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and Media for the promotion of full-length feature films and documentaries.

Publications

• Guntram Lenz / Alfred Holighaus (eds.): Choose us so that we are well - poets and democracy in the focus of German poetry and prose from 1840 to today. 1980
• TIP film yearbook. 1985-1995
• Alfred Holighaus (ed.): The film canon - 35 films that you have to know. 2005
• “The youngest German film at festivals”; in: Thomas Schick / Tobias Ebbrecht (eds.) Cinema in Motion - Perspectives on Contemporary German Films. 2011
• “We were never here”, in: Pinakothek der Moderne and HFF (Hg) documentary film in the 21st century. 2010
• "Film and football - an inseparable story", in: Art and culture program of the federal government for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Berlin
• “Foreword”, in: Frederik Steiner: Stepping Out - From Film School to Feature Film. 2003
• “Mood of optimism”, in: Heike Amend / Michael Bütow (eds.): The moving film - departure for new German successes. Berlin 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Holighaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alfred Holighaus at the Berlinale: "Cannes has never been so nervous", interview in the FAZ on February 15, 2002
• Max Ophüls Honorary Award for Alfred Holighaus, tip, December 12, 2011
• Alfred Holighaus changes to the management of the German Film Academy, January 1st, 2010
• SPIO elects new president, SPIO press release on March 17th, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website - The Presidium. Central organization of the film industry e. V., accessed February 20, 2019 .