Christian boys
Christian Junge (born May 7, 1973 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss film historian , film critic and author. He is the artistic director and overall director of the Zurich Film Festival .
Life
Boys studied Italian linguistics and literature, history and film studies at the University of Zurich . In 2006 he received his doctorate in film studies with a dissertation on the relationship between Hollywood and the Cannes Film Festival .
Junge was film editor for NZZ am Sonntag and editor-in-chief of the film magazine Frame, which he founded in 2014 together with Karl Spoerri , artistic director of the Zurich Film Festival , and Felix E. Müller , then editor-in-chief of NZZ am Sonntag. From 2011 to 2017 he was President of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists. From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the Zurich Film Commission. He wrote a biography about Moritz de Hadeln .
In April 2019 it was announced that he would succeed Karl Spoerri as artistic director of the Zurich Film Festival in 2020 . Instead, he has given up his position as head of culture at the “NZZ am Sonntag”.
Awards
- 2010: Award of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels for Hollywood in Canne $
- 2011: Prix Pathé for film journalism
Publications
- Bryan Adams Mustang in the cinema . In: Cinema No. 49: Music. Marburg 2004. ISBN 9783894726003
- The journalist, a business partner of the studios . In: Coming to your cinema soon. Marburg 2005. ISBN 9783894723897
- Hollywood in Canne $: A Love-Hate Story . Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-521-1
- Moritz de Hadeln: Mister Film Festival . Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3-907625-98-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint of the NZZ
- ↑ http://frame.ch/de/home/
- ↑ http://filmjournalist.ch/
- ^ Tobias Sedlmaier: Moritz de Hadeln - trailblazers of world cinema | NZZ . March 7, 2018, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 13, 2019]).
- ↑ Christian Jungs becomes Artistic Director at the Zurich Film Festival . Article dated April 4, 2019, accessed April 4, 2019.
- ^ Award-winning works October 2010 - Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - Bundesverband
- ↑ Solothurn Film Festival - Journées de Soleure - Prize Winners ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boys, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss film historian and film critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7th 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |