Jan-Christopher Horak
Jan-Christopher Horak (* 1. May 1951 in Bad Münstereifel ) is a German -American film historian and film restorer . From 1994 to 1998 he was director of the Munich Film Museum .
Life
Jan-Christopher Horak emigrated to the USA with his parents in 1951 . There he went to school in Chicago . He returned to the Federal Republic of Germany with his family in 1964 and attended the American High School in Frankfurt am Main . He then studied at the universities in Ohio , Delaware and Boston . At the University of Münster he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.
From 1984 to 1994 Horak worked at the George Eastman House as a curator, restorer and film historian and then until 1998 as director of the Munich Film Museum. From 1998 to 2000 he worked at Universal Studios and from 2000 to 2006 at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum. In December 2007 he became director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive .
Jan-Christopher Horak held various teaching positions and published more than 300 articles on film history .
In 2018, Horak was awarded the Reinhold Schünzel Prize at the CineFest in Hamburg for his services to the care, preservation and dissemination of German film heritage.
Works (selection)
- Film and photo from the 1920s. Publisher Gerd Hatje. Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 978-3-7757-0141-9
- Anti-Nazi films of German-speaking emigration from Hollywood 1939-1945 , MAkS, Münster 1984 ISBN 3-88811-305-9 (dissertation University of Münster (Westphalia) 1984, 473 pages).
- Hollywood Vanishing Point. A documentation on film emigration after 1933. 2nd, expanded and corrected edition with the collaboration of Elisabeth Tape. MAkS - Münster working group for semiotics, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-88811-303-2 .
- Mountains, light and dream. Dr. Arnold Fanck and the German mountain film. F. Bruckmann KG, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3091-9
- Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design. University of Kentucky Press, Lexington 2014, ISBN 978-0-8131-4718-5
- LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. University of California Press, Berkeley 2015, ISBN 978-0-520-28467-8
Web links
- Jan-Christopher Horak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Jan-Christopher Horak in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photos by Jan-Christopher Horak
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horak, Jan-Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film historian and film restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Münstereifel |