Erika Gregor

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Erika Gregor (born May 26, 1934 ) is a German cinema operator , film curator and publisher . As a co-founder of the Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek , as a co-founder of the Berlin arthouse cinema Arsenal, as a co-initiator of the International Forum of New Films at the Berlinale, and as a program curator for decades and member of the selection committee of the International Forum, she has shaped German film in many ways for more than 50 years .

Career

Erika Gregor was born near Bremen . She grew up in a Protestant community with around 3,000 inhabitants. As a young girl, she took refuge in books while fleeing from her strict parents' home and from the pressure of National Socialist youth groups. She fell for the magic of the cinema at a young age, but only found greater access as a student.

She studied German , English , history and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , in London , Munich and Berlin . After a controversial debate about the classic silent film Menschen am Sonntag, she met her future husband Ulrich Gregor at the Free University of Berlin in 1957 . Together with him, she co-founded the Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1963 and, in 1970, co-founded the Berlin arthouse cinema Arsenal , the first non-commercial cinema in Germany and a role model for all German municipal cinemas. From 1963 Erika Gregor published the Kinemathek series .

At the end of the 1960s, the Gregor couple initiated the International Forum for New Films , which has been part of the Berlinale since 1971 under the title Forum . The founding of the Forum of New Films goes back to the crisis of the Berlin Film Festival in 1970, when disputes over the performance of Michael Verhoeven's cinematic Vietnam War parable OK led to the film festival being abandoned. The 1st forum took place under its own sponsorship, affiliated to the Berlinale, in July 1971 and distinguished itself from the competition through a different understanding of film and its own criteria for the selection and presentation of films. Erika Gregor was together with Ulrich Gregor director of the forum for 30 years until 2001.

Erika Gregor belonged to the group of students, the 1959-1962 calling the student council of the Free University of Berlin followed and the initiative Unpunished Nazi Justice of Reinhard Strecker supported.

She and her husband Ulrich Gregor have two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erika Gregor becomes an honorary member of the Academy of Arts. November 15, 2019, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Happy Birthday, Erika Gregor! Arsenal, May 26, 2019, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bettina Henzler, Manuela Zahn: We just count on the enthusiasm for film and cinema to continue. In: After the film. April 9, 2014, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Esther Buss: Breaking taboos was a pleasure for us. Der Spiegel, February 18, 2020, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Wowereit awards the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin. October 29, 2015, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Honorary Prize - Erika and Ulrich Gregor . In: Association of German Film Critics (Ed.): Press release . February 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cinema operator, film curator and head of the International Forum for New Films
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1934