Hans-Michael Bock

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Hans-Michael Bock (born July 5, 1947 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German film historian, filmmaker, translator and publicist.

Hans-Michael Bock

Life

Hans-Michael Bock is editor of the loose-leaf encyclopedia CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film , which has been published by edition text + kritik , Munich since 1984 and is internationally recognized as a standard bio-filmographic work.

The Institute CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e. V. , of which Bock is a board member and which has given important impetus with numerous publications on German and European film history. An international film history congress has been held every year since 1988 . This resulted in cinefest - International Festival of German Film Heritage , Hamburg - Berlin - Prague - Udine - Vienna - Wiesbaden - Zurich, which has been organized by CineGraph and the Federal Archives' film archive since 2004 , and whose director is Bock.

He is the author and editor of numerous publications and book series on German and international film history. Since 1980 he has been in charge of the German edition of the American standard work How to Read a Film by James Monaco , whose “General Editor German Edition” is Bock, as the editor and editor of film understands . At Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, he has been editing the book series Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context since 2005 together with Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton) and Sabine Hake (University of Texas, Austin) .

Since the early 1970s, he has been producing documentaries on topics from German film history for various television stations.

He was responsible for DVD editions such as the Ernst Lubitsch Collection (2006, Transit Classics) as well as for the label absolut MEDIEN Die 3-Groschen-Oper (2008, Classic Edition), Klaus Wildenhahn - Documentarist on TV (2010, The Great Documentarists), Peter Pewas : Films 1932–1967 (2011, cinefest edition). Together with Karl Griep, director of the film archive of the Federal Archives, he compiles DVDs from the cinefest Edition series.

Hans-Michael Bock began with publications on the writer Arno Schmidt , for example in 1973 the first detailed bibliography of the work and the publications about Schmidt (2nd verb. And supplementary edition 1979). From 1978 Bock gave the Haidnian Antiquities series . Literature from the 18th and 19th centuries published by Verlag Zweiausendeins . The series of annotated, complete reprints of forgotten and rare novels is based on suggestions from Schmidt.

Bock was also a translator u. a. from novels by American singers and writers Woody Guthrie and Kinky Friedman .

Honors

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, edited by Christoph Fuchs and Michael Töteberg , the band Fredy Bockbein meets Mister Dynamit - films at a second glance with texts from numerous international authors on films “beyond the canon” appeared in the Edition Text + Criticism .

On his 65th birthday, a DVD appeared in the arte Edition in 2012 with the TV series Der Komische Kintopp, which he put together in 1997 . Early German comedies .

In February 2016, the University of Udine presented him with the Limina Award for Outstanding Cultural Achievement as part of the Filmforum .

In September 2016 he received the Kinematheksverbund's honorary award for special services to film culture and film heritage .

In November 2017, the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg awarded him the Biermann-Ratjen Medal for his many years of diverse services to film history, in particular to German film history.

Filmography

  • 1972: Fritz Rasp tells . TV documentary. Together with Rudolf Körösi.
  • 1972: 18 pictures by hand. Cameramen of the German silent film . TV documentary. Together with Rudolf Körösi.
  • 1981: Hans Feld tells . Interview. Video material collection. Together with Werner Sudendorf.
  • 1985: taboos from the day before yesterday . TV documentary. Realization under the pseudonym Werner Goldmann.
  • 1989: The cabinet of Erich Pommer . A producer makes film history . TV documentary. Together with Ute T. Schneider.
  • 1997: The comic cinema. Early German comedies . TV series, 6 episodes. Compilation of short films from 1908–1919.

Literature (selection)

  • (Editor with Jörg Drews ): The solipsist in the heath. Materials on Arno Schmidt's work . Munich: edition text + kritik 1974, ISBN 3-415-00355-8 .
  • Bibliography Arno Schmidt 1949–1973 . Munich: edition text + kritik 1974, ISBN 3-415-00411-2 .
  • Bibliography Arno Schmidt 1949–1978. 2nd, improved and supplemented edition . Munich: edition text + kritik 1979, ISBN 3-88377-020-5 . (corrected reprint 1980)
  • Woody Guthrie : This country is my country. - Bound for Glory . With drawings by the author and a foreword by Studs Terkel . German by Hans-Michael Bock. Frankfurt am Main: Zweiausendeins 1977. (New edition: This country is my country . Hamburg: 2001. ISBN 3-89401-363-X )
  • (Concept and compilation with Jürgen Berger): Photo: Casparius. Film history in pictures / Berlin around 1930 / Traveling . Berlin / West: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek 1978. Catalog book with detailed material on GW Pabst's film adaptation of The 3-Groschen-Oper based on Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht .
  • (Editor): CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film . Munich: edition text + kritik since 1984, ISBN 3-88377-607-6 . Loose-leaf work.
  • (Editor): About Arno Schmidt. Reviews from "Leviathan" to "Julia" . Zurich: Haffmans 1984, ISBN 3-251-00031-4 .
  • (Editor): Paul Leni . Graphic theater film . Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum 1986, ISBN 3-88799-008-0 .
  • (Editor with Thomas Schreiber ): About Arno Schmidt II. Complete presentations . Zurich: Haffmans 1987, ISBN 3-251-00117-5 .
  • (Editor with Michael Töteberg ): The Ufa book. The international history of Germany's largest film company. Art and crises - stars and directors - business and politics . Frankfurt am Main: Zweiausendeins 1992, ISBN 3-86150-065-5 .
  • Kinky Friedman : Greenwich Killing Time. Detective novel . From the American by Hans-Michael Bock. Zurich: Haffmans 1992. ISBN 3-251-01144-8 .
  • Kinky Friedman: Lone Star. Detective novel . From the American by Hans-Michael Bock. Zurich: Haffmans 1993. ISBN 3-251-30002-4 .
  • Kinky Friedman: Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola. Detective novel . From the American by Hans-Michael Bock. Zurich: Haffmans 1993. ISBN 3-251-30051-2 .
  • (Editor with Wolfgang Jacobsen): Research: Film. Sources and methods of film research . Munich: edition text + kritik 1997, ISBN 3-88377-550-9 .
  • (Editor): Lexicon Film Actors International. 2 volumes . Reinbek: Rowohlt 1997, ISBN 3-499-16523-6 , ISBN 3-499-16524-4 .
  • Douglas Sirk : Imitation of Life. A conversation with Jon Halliday . German edition ed. v. Hans-Michael Bock and Michael Töteberg. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Autor 1997. ISBN 3-88661-176-0 .
  • Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: History of International Film . Translated from the English by Hans-Michael Bock and a team of film scholars. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 1998, ISBN 3-476-01585-8 .
  • (Editor): Lexicon of directors and cameramen . Reinbek: Rowohlt 1999, ISBN 3-499-60651-8 .
  • (Editing with Wiebke Annkatrin Mosel, Ingrun Bewegungs): Die Tobis 1928–1945. An annotated filmography . Munich: edition text + kritik 2003, ISBN 3-88377-748-X .
  • James Monaco: Understanding Film. Art, technology, language, history and theory of film and the media. With an introduction to multimedia . Updated and expanded edition. German version ed. v. Hans-Michael Bock. Reinbek: Rowohlt 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-62538-1 . (First German edition: 1980).
  • (General Editor; Associate Editor: Tim Bergfelder): The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopaedia of German Cinema . New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books 2009, (Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context), ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9 .
  • James Monaco, Hans-Michael Bock: Understanding Film. The encyclopedia. The most important technical terms for film and new media . Reinbek: Rowohlt 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62667-8 . (Extended new edition by: James Monaco: Film und Neue Medien. Lexicon of technical terms . German version by Hans-Michael Bock. 2000)

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personal data
SURNAME Bock, Hans-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film historian, filmmaker and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven