Daniel Kothenschulte

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Daniel Kothenschulte (* 1967 in Porz , now the district of Cologne ) is a German film critic and film scholar .

Life

Daniel Kothenschulte grew up in his native city of Cologne. There and in Bochum he studied art history , theater, film and television studies as well as German .

Kothenschulte works as a film critic for the Frankfurter Rundschau . In addition to his numerous articles and essays on film history, photography, art and pop culture, he published the book Improvements to the American Dream in 1998 , in which he deals with Robert Redford's directorial work . Kothenschultes specialty is animation . He has published many publications in particular on the life and work of Walt Disney and his artistic collaborators.

Kothenschulte also works as a film curator . He put together film programs for the exhibitions Marinus and Heartfield - Political Images and La Bohème at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. He participated in several editions of the KunstFilmBiennale . In 2009, he curated and presented the retrospective of the American cameraman and director Ed Lachman.

In addition, Kothenschulte worked as a university lecturer. From 2004 to 2005 he held a teaching position for art history at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and in 2005/2006 a teaching position in the design department of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences . Kothenschulte is also a lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich .

In 2004 he was a member of the jury of the Backup Festival . In 2009 and 2010 he led the Young Critic's Workshop for selected film students from the colleges in Mumbai at the Mumbai Film Festival (MIFF), India. In 2013 Kothenschulte was a member of the jury at the International Competition of the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival .

In 2013, Kothenschulte founded the series of events "Videonale Scope", which has taken place annually in Cologne since then, with retrospectives by international film and media artists, which he presented in workshop discussions. The guests included Kenneth Anger , James Benning and Birgit Hein , Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Wilhelm Hein and Lutz Mommartz .

In 1986 he appeared as a candidate under the name "Hans Wahn" in the ZDF program " Der Große Preis " and caused a minor scandal with his flippant manner.

Kothenschulte lives in Cologne and has an extensive collection of classic Hollywood glamor photography of well-known stars.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • as co-author: The breath of death blows around them. The Spaghetti Western - The Story of a Genre . Bochum 1998, 2nd expanded edition, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-9806313-2-X .
  • Improvements to the American Dream. The director Robert Redford . Marburg 1998, 2nd, expanded and revised edition Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-89472-326-2 .
  • as co-author: Sublevel: Dim Recollection. Illuminated by Multicolored Swamp Gas. Deodorized Mass with Satellites , 1999, ISBN 3-88375-403-X .
  • Andreas Slominski , where are the skis? Where are the skis? On the occasion of the Exhibition Andreas Slominski, New Works, New Works, November 10, 2000 - January 13, 2001, Jablonka Gallery . Cologne 2001.
  • as co-author: Videonale 10th catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from April 30th to May 16th, 2005 . Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-88375-951-1 .
  • The ruin of the future. Metropolis 2010 - Fritz Lang's restored classic. Cologne 2010, ISBN 3-9813426-3-1
  • with Robert Nippoldt : Hollywood in the 30s . Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 3-8369-2628-8
  • as editor and co-author: The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921-1968 . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-5291-2 ; German edition: The Walt Disney Film Archive. The animated films 1921–1968 . ISBN 978-3-8365-5289-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marinus and Heartfield . ( Memento from October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Museum Ludwig Cologne
  2. ↑ exhibitions. ( Memento from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Museum Ludwig Cologne
  3. ↑ Lecturer entry at the HFF
  4. ↑ buzzintown.com ( Memento from January 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Website Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart ( Memento from July 4th 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ videonale.org
  7. ↑ v14.videonale.org
  8. ↑ videonale.org
  9. ↑ videonale.org
  10. ↑ videonale.org
  11. ↑ Brief portrait at Monopol magazine , February 1, 2009. Memento from the Internet Archive of April 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kothenschulte, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic and film historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Porz , now the municipality of Cologne