Gero Gandert
Gero Gandert (born June 13, 1929 in Görlitz ; † August 29, 2019 ) was a German film scholar. His specialty was the research of film history from its beginnings and above all the tracking down and acquisition of collections on the exile history of German film.
Career
After graduating from high school in Oldenburg in 1948, he began writing his first film reviews. He studied newspaper and theater studies as well as history in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1952 . In 1957 he took over the programming of the Filmbühne am Steinplatz . He was imprisoned there from 1958 to 1961 because of his critical examination of cultural policy and film in the GDR. In 1963 he co-founded the “Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek” association, from which the Arsenal cinema emerged , as well as the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlinale. From 1964 he was a freelancer, from 1972 a permanent curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek .
Together with Ulrich Gregor , he published a protocol of the film M - A City Seeks a Murderer by Fritz Lang in 1963 . The anthology Der Film der Weimarer Republik 1929 was published in 1993. A handbook of contemporary criticism .
Honors
- 1992: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2007: Reinhold Schünzel Prize
- 2011: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- CV at the Cinefest
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Kinemathek press release of September 2, 2019: On the death of Gero Gandert (June 13, 1929– August 29 , 2019 ) , accessed on September 3, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gandert, Gero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th August 2019 |