Joachim von Vietinghoff

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Joachim Freiherr von Vietinghoff (born May 8, 1941 in Munich ) is a German film producer .

Life

It comes from the Livonian line of the Vietinghoffs with roots both in Marienburg (today Alūksne ) and in Salisburg (today Mazsalaca ). After training as a press photographer at the Munich Institute for Photojournalism from 1959 to 1962, Joachim von Vietinghoff became a photojournalist at the International Press Agency Keystone in Munich, Bonn and Hamburg from 1962 to 1966. In 1964/65 he did military service as a lieutenant

From the fall of 1966 he took on assistantships at Munich film production companies. After various heads of recording, production and production (including a supermarket by Roland Klick , views of a clown by Vojtěch Jasný , Lina Braake , Der Mädchenkrieg und Berlinger by Bernhard Sinkel and Alf Brustellin ), the first own productions were made How I became a Neger (based on Ödön von Horváths Jugend ohne Gott ) by Roland Gall , first performance in Cannes 1970, Bomber & Paganini by Nikos Perakis .

The From Vietinghoff Filmproduktion GmbH produced in Munich more than 70 feature films, television and documentaries since its inception in 1969/70. Films such as David by Peter Lilienthal ( Golden Bear and Federal Film Prize 1979), Laputa by Helma Sanders-Brahms (Jury Prize in Montreal), Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta (Grand Prix of Biarritz), Satanstango , Die Werkmeisterlichen Harmonie and The Man were made From London (2007 Cannes competition) by Béla Tarr .

From 1983 to 2001 he was a member of the advisory selection committee for the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since 1995 he has been a lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), at the Institute for Acting and TV Professions at the VHS Berlin Mitte (iSFF), at the Film School Hamburg Berlin and since 2002 at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. In 2001 the Deutsche Kinemathek organized the exhibition Pictures, Stories, Films: the producer Joachim von Vietinghoff and an extensive retrospective in the Arsenal. Von Vietinghoff is a permanent member of the German Film Academy and was a board member for four years.

In addition to various prizes and awards, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2001 .

2012 founded Vietinghoff with his colleague Hans W. Geißendörfer and the media entrepreneur Andreas Vogel the treasures of German Film GmbH , now about 800 German films and documentaries on the video-on-demand provides portal alleskino.de online.

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SURNAME Vietinghoff, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vietinghoff, Joachim Baron von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich