Claus Löser
Claus Löser (* 1962 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German author , curator , film historian and specialist journalist .
Training and activities
Since 1990, Löser has been a program designer in the cinema of the cultural institution “Brotfabrik” in Berlin-Weißensee . In 1992 he started working as a freelance writer. After studying at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film School , which he graduated with a diploma in 1995 , he founded the film archive "ex.oriente.lux" in 1996, which is dedicated to East German underground and experimental films. His dissertation Strategies of Denial: Investigations into the Political-Aesthetic Gesture of Unadapted Cinematic Articulations in the Late Period of the GDR was published in 2011 in the DEFA Foundation's series of publications. From 2013 to 2015 he was a board member of the Association of German Film Critics and has been a member of the advisory board since then.
Löser lives and works in Berlin .
Works
Books
- Strategies of Refusal / Investigations into the political-aesthetic gesture of inappropriate cinematic articulations in the late phase of the GDR . DEFA Foundation series, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-00034-845-7
- Counter-images - cinematic subversion in the GDR 1976–1989 (Ed. With Karin Fritzsche). Janus Press, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-928942-38-7
Movies
- Assertion of space. Ways of independent exhibition culture in the GDR . Documentary. FRG 2009. 100 minutes
- Miriquidi , FRG 1999. 15 minutes
- Victoria , GDR 1989. 28 minutes
- Action: Frank Herrmann , GDR 1987. 5 minutes
- Terzett , GDR 1987. 3 minutes
- People have to take a safe stance , GDR 1986. 8 minutes
- Nekrolog , GDR 1985. 7 minutes
- OT , GDR 1984. 5 minutes
media
- (Author) Parallel World: Film. An insight into DEFA . DVD. Federal Agency for Civic Education. Berlin 2006.
- (Ed. With Karin Fritzsche) Counter-images - GDR film in the underground / 1983-1989 . DVD. Absolut Medien, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-89848-092-5
- (Ed. With Karin Fritzsche) Counter-images - GDR film in the underground 1976-1989 . VHS. Absolut Medien, Berlin 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Claus Löser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Claus Löser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claus Löser , FIPRESCI
- Commentary from curator Claus Löser: Against the destruction of film heritage , Berliner Zeitung , December 9, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Claus Löser Biography , DEFA Film Library
- ^ Vita Federal Foundation for the coming to terms with the SED dictatorship
- ^ Claus Löser , Association of German Film Critics
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Looser, Claus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |