Bodo Fründt

Bodo Fründt (born September 16, 1945 in Ludwigslust ; † December 2, 2014 in Munich ) was a German film journalist , film critic and author.

Life

Fründt attended high school in Bad Salzuflen, then Düsseldorf and Cologne, and began his career as a journalist for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . From 1978 to 1982 he worked as a film editor for the star . He worked as a freelancer for Die Zeit , Die Welt am Sonntag and the Süddeutsche Zeitung , among others . As an author, he has also written books on Alfred Hitchcock and German film in Cannes and has translated film books.

From 1983 to 1993 Fründt ran the film production company Nord-Süd-Film with Rolf Thissen . Both made documentaries for ZDF , BR , WDR and NDR , including full-length films about Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese .

Another field of activity for Fründt were film festivals such as the Berlinale and the Hof Film Festival . At the Munich Film Festival he was in charge of press and editorial work and, as editor-in-chief, was responsible for the Film Festival catalog and all other publications at the Film Festival and the Munich International Festival of Film Schools . He taught as a lecturer at the University of Television and Film in Munich .

with Yegor Anashkin u. Stefan Arsenijevic (Hg): 25 years of the International Festival of the Munich Film Schools. Festschrift. International Festival of Film Schools. Munich 2005.
with Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (ed.): Wait until it gets dark. 7 years "Film im Bild" from d. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 1968 to 1974 . Edition Achteinhalb, Ebersberg 1983.
(Co-author): Francis Ford Coppola . Haner, Munich 1985.
Alfred Hitchcock and his films . Heyne, 4th edition, Munich 1992.
with Bernd Lepel: dreams under golden palm trees. The German film at the boarding school. Cannes Film Festival = Dreams beneath the golden palms . Ed. Eight and a half, Ebersberg 1987.

Susanne Hermanski : Cooking with Polack. Mourning for SZ film critic Bodo Fründt . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 5, 2014, p. 12.
Mourning for Bodo Fründt . In: Blickpunkt Film , December 5, 2014.
Hans Schifferle: The professional film critic Bodo Fründt . In: epd Film , December 8, 2014.
Gebhard Hölzl : Wait until it gets dark. In: Internationale Münchner Filmwochen (Ed.): 33rd Munich Film Festival 2015. Munich 2015, pp. 124–125. (Program brochure)

↑ Rolf-Rüdiger Hamacher: Obituary Rolf Thissen at vdfk.de, accessed on June 28, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Fründt, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German film journalist, film critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH	2nd December 2014
Place of death	Munich