Günter Agde

Günter Agde (* 1939 ) is a German film historian.

Life

Agde studied theater studies from 1957 to 1961 at the Leipzig Theater Academy . From 1975 to 1992 he was a research assistant for film at the Academy of the Arts of the GDR (since 1990 Academy of the Arts in Berlin ). 1985 doctorate him Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on position and performance of the feature film director Kurt Maetzig (1946-1976) Dr. phil.

Agde wrote several works on German film history and DEFA , film exile and contemporary history. After 1989 he published the volumes of documents on the 11th plenary session of the SED Central Committee in 1965 and on the Soviet special camp No. 7 Sachsenhausen . He is a member of the Association of German Film Critics and a founding member of the CineGraph Babelsberg association, co-founder and longstanding author of the magazine Filmblatt and has taught film history at the Free University of Berlin and at the HU Berlin. He lives in Berlin .

Awards

• Heinrich Greif Prize 1989
• Ben Witter Prize 2006
• Willy Haas Prize 2011 for the book Die Rote Traumfabrik published by Alexander Schwarz and Agde

Works

• Erwin Geschonneck : My restless years. Edited by Günter Agde. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1984 a. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7466-0161-4 .
• Kurt Maetzig: Film work. Conversations, speeches, writings. Edited by Günter Agde. Henschelverlag Kunst u. Society, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-362-00039-8 .
• Margarethe von Trotta, Die Bleierne Zeit and other film texts. Edited by Günter Agde. Henschelverlag Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-362-00269-2 .
• Leeway. From the workshop of the film scenographer Alfred Hirschmeier. Edited by Günter Agde. Academy of Arts of the GDR Berlin, 1989.
• Clear cutting. The 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED in 1965. Studies and documents. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7466-0061-8 .
• Sachsenhausen near Berlin. Special camp No. 7, 1945–1950. Receipts, documents and studies. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7466-7003-9 .
• The Greussians. Hitler's werewolves, Stalin's secret police and a trial in Thuringia. edition Reiher in Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01905-8 .
• Flickering promises, the history of German advertising films in the cinema. Das Neue Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-360-00865-0 .
• Fighter . Biography of a film and its makers. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00942-8 .
• Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg . A German fate in the resistance. Edited by Günter Agde. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8107-3 .
  • That. Russian: Граф Карл-Ханс фон Харденберг, Одна из судеб немецкого Сопротивления, составитель Гюнер Агдер. РОССПЕН Москва 2007, ISBN 978-5-8243-0945-4 .
• Filmexile Moscow. Edited by Günter Agde. edition text + kritik, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88377-778-1 .
• The red dream factory. Meschrabpom film and Prometheus 1921–1936. Edited by Günter Agde and Alexander Schwarz. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86505-214-8 .
• Günter Agde (Ed.): Peter Voigt : sketches, reviews, essays, interviews . New Life, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-355-01874-6 .