Andrei Ujica

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Andrei Ujica

Andrei Ujica (* 1951 in Timișoara , People's Republic of Romania ) is a Romanian author, director and screenwriter. He has lived in Germany since 1981 and was a professor for film at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe from 2001 to 2017 .

Live and act

Ujica studied literature in Timișoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg . From 1968 he published prose, verses and essays at certain intervals. He also translated texts and poems by the Banat Action Group into Romanian .

In 1990 he made the decision to make films. In collaboration with Harun Farocki, he produced “ Videograms of a Revolution ”, a film about the relationship between political power and the media in Europe at the end of the Cold War . His next film was “ Out of the Present ”, which tells the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikalev , who spent ten months on board the MIR space station while the Soviet Union disappeared on earth . His work “Unknown Quantity” shows the staging of two conversations between Paul Virilio and Svetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch , author of the book “Chernobyl. Chronicle of the future ”. Andrei Ujica was invited to the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in 2010 with “Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu” .

From 2001 to 2017 Ujica was professor of film at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe and since 2002 founding director of the film institute at the Center for Art and Media Technology .

Filmography

  • 1992: videograms of a revolution. (Director)
  • 1992: Camera and Reality. (TV; screenplay and direction)
  • 1995: Out of the Present. (Script and direction)
  • 2010: Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu / The autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu. (Script and direction)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Halbjahresschrift.blogspot.de , The Securitate opens an operational process
  2. ↑ Biography of Prof. Andrei Ujica. Professor of film. In: beta.hfg-karlsruhe.de

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personal data
SURNAME Ujica, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , People's Republic of Romania