Dieter Kosslick

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Dieter Kosslick (2019)

Dieter Kosslick (born May 30, 1948 in Pforzheim ) is a German cultural manager . From 2001 to 2019 he was the director of the Berlin International Film Festival .

Life

Born in 1948 in Pforzheim and raised in Ispringen , Kosslick studied communication, politics and education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing his master's degree, he initially worked as a research assistant at the university before moving to Hamburg in 1979 to work as personal advisor, speech writer and office manager of the First Mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose and later as press spokesman for the control center for “Equality for Women” work.

From there, in 1982, Kosslick switched to the far left -hand magazine " Betonet " as a culture editor . In 1983 he began working in film funding , initially as managing director of the Hamburg film funding agency (Hamburger Filmbüro). In 1986 he founded the European Low Budget Forum there with the "Kino auf der Alster". In 1988 he became managing director of the Hanseatic city's economic film fund ( Film Fonds Hamburg ). In the same year, as co-founder of EFDO (European Film Distribution Office), he became president of this first European distribution organization, which later became the MEDIA program of the European Union - an office that he held alongside his managerial work until EFDO was dissolved in 1996.

In 1992 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the WDR brought Dieter Kosslick to the Rhine as managing director of the one year old Film Foundation NRW in Düsseldorf . In the nine years he worked on the Rhine and Ruhr , North Rhine-Westphalia became the front runner among German film locations and has also established itself internationally as an important film country. In 2000, Dieter Kosslick was appointed by the State of Berlin and the Federal Government to take over the management of the Berlin International Film Festival (“Berlinale”). On May 1, 2001, he took up his position as director of the Berlinale. The last time his contract was extended in 2014 for another five years until 2019.

He was vice president of the European Film Academy EFA that every year the European Film Prize awards, member of the board of the Film Board in Berlin and board member of the European Film College in Ebeltoft , Member of the ZDF Television Council and founding CEO and current Chairman of the Board of the International Film School Cologne .

Kosslick got involved as a city sponsor for Pforzheimerhilfe Afrika as part of the aid project We are helping Africa for the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa. In September 2012 he also took over the patronage of the Pforzheimer association Active Aid in Africa eV , which runs a reforestation project in southern Malawi.

In October 2016, Kosslick took over a five-year guarantee for the legal entry of a Syrian war refugee as part of the initiative of the refugee sponsors Syria .

Since 2019, Kosslick has been the jury chairman of the Carl Laemmle Producer Award, which is awarded annually for the life's work of an outstanding producer personality.

Fonts

  • with Peter Körte: The book Bagel. A pastry rolls around the world. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-596-14748-9 .

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Dieter Kosslick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Interviews
Additional information

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contract extended to 2019 - Dieter Kosslick remains Berlinale Director ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at rbb-online.de, November 19, 2014 (accessed October 25, 2015).
  2. ^ Report on Kosslick's engagement on the website of the refugee sponsors Syria , accessed on November 14, 2016
  3. ↑ WELT: Film Festival in Transition: The new Berlinale management takes over . May 31, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  5. ↑ Schwarzkopf Europe Prize. Schwarzkopf Foundation, archived from the original on June 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ First Steps Awards 2018 . Article dated September 24, 2018, accessed September 25, 2018.
  7. ^ France pays tribute to Berlinale boss Dieter Kosslick . Article dated March 1, 2019, accessed March 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Berlinale 2020: New festival leaders are giving the first signals . Article dated March 28, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ Former Berlinale boss Dieter Kosslick receives the Federal Cross of Merit . Article dated March 28, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kosslick, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of the Berlin International Film Festival (2001–2019)
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim