Lars Henrik Gass

Lars Henrik Gass (born June 11, 1965 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German author and curator . Since October 1997 he has been director of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival .

Life

He is the son of Peter Gass, who was head of the cultural office in Kaiserslautern for many years , and Annemarie Liebrich, who was married to the soccer player Werner Liebrich for the second time . During his school days in Kaiserslautern, he worked as a journalist for the local pages of Die Rheinpfalz . He worked in the film club Kaiserslautern's Alternative Film and was the bass player in the band Brain Trust , which broke up after three public appearances. Gass studied literature and theater studies as well as philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . He did his doctorate under Karsten Witte and Winfried Menninghaus with a study on the French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras , published as a book under the title Das ortlose Kino. About Marguerite Duras (2001) appeared. In 1996/97 he was managing director of the European Documentary Film Institute in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where he was editor of the series of books on documentary film as well as the magazine DOX - Documentary Film Quarterly .

Gass published numerous reviews, essays and lectures on photography, film and cultural-political issues, in particular on the phenomenology of film festivals and cinema as well as the development of culture and film funding. He held various teaching positions on film and cultural management and was guest editor of the special issue Die Zukunft der Filmfestivals von Schnitt (film magazine) . He regularly publishes a column on the online portal Filmdienst . Gass is co-editor of the volumes Provocation of Reality. The Oberhausen Manifesto and the Consequences (2012) and after youtube. Conversations, portraits, texts on the music video after the Internet (2018) and author of the book Film und Kunst nach dem Kino (2012), "a pamphlet against the dissolution of the cinema into the multimedia consumer world", which met with positive criticism. In 2017 an updated and expanded new edition of the book was published. An English-language edition was published in 2019. His last book, Filmgeschichte als Kinogeschichte , was also published in 2019 . A little theory of the cinema . “The interesting thing about Gass' procedure is that it does not subscribe to any lascivious cultural pessimism and corresponding rescue missions. Gass may see a long-gone utopia in the cinema - he also knows that it can no longer be saved. "

He was described as the innovator of the festival in Oberhausen because he began to relate the short film to pop culture , contemporary art and a “post-cinematic present”.

From 2002 to 2007 Gass was a member of the jury of the German Short Film Award in the animation and documentary film categories , in 2009 a member of the Berlinale Shorts Jury, and from 2011 to 2013 he was on the Artistic Advisory Board of Emscherkunst . In February 2019 he became a board member of the Federal Association of Communal Film Work for one year .

Gass is committed to an unconditional basic income and to the Artabana community . He is also interested in questions about sustainability and environmental protection .

honors and awards

• 2014: Honorary Award from Interfilm and Signis.

Book publications

• The placeless cinema. About Marguerite Duras (2001) ISBN 3-9806313-3-8
• Provocation of Reality. The Oberhausen Manifesto and the Consequences (2012) ISBN 978-3-86916-182-2
• Film and Art after the Cinema (2012) ISBN 978-3-86572-684-1
• Film and art after the cinema (2017) ISBN 978-3-946770-17-6
• after youtube. Conversations, portraits, texts on the music video according to the Internet (2018) ISBN 978-3-946770-27-5
• Film and Art After Cinema (2019) ISBN 978-953-7372-47-7
• Film history as cinema history. A Little Theory of Cinema (2019) ISBN 978-3-95905-285-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Lars Henrik Gass in the catalog of the German National Library
• Against the dictatorship of mediocrity. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 20, 2015. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 4./5. May 2002
2. ^ The future of film festivals , editing, No. 54, 2/2009
3. ↑ How the cinema disappears more and more from the films . World on Sunday , August 12, 2012.
4. ↑ Bert Rebhandl in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 28, 2012
5. ↑ Wolfram Schütte in: Deutschlandradio Kultur , August 10, 2012
6. ↑ Peter Körte in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , July 7, 2019
7. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: A quarter of a year in the cinema: You can't stop, but you have to stop - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Manfred Hermes in: Junge Welt , 11./12. May 2013
9. ↑ New board elected. (No longer available online.) In: Bundesverband kommunale Filmarbeit eV February 15, 2019, archived from the original ; accessed on June 9, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Lars Henrik Gass: The party is over. An essay on the crux of film festivals, bringing the new awareness of climate protection under one roof with the desire for effort. Filmdienst , September 19, 2019, accessed on April 17, 2020 . 
12. ^ Lars Henrik Gass on the "eco-dilemma" of international film festivals. MDR television , March 19, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020 . 
13. ↑ 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | inter-film.org. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .