Michael Kötz

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Michael Kötz (2014)

Michael Kötz (born May 27, 1951 ) is a German cultural manager , film critic and filmmaker .

Life

After graduating from the Nordsee-Gymnasium Langeoog , Michael Kötz studied German and political science , mainly in Frankfurt / Main, and received his doctorate in 1985 with Alexander Kluge .

He then worked as a film critic, for example for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Sonntagsblatt , on the radio ( NDR , Radio Bremen , HR ) and on television. He held various teaching positions and was director of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival from 1992 to 2019 , which he expanded into a festival of the two cities. In 2005, Kötz and his wife Daniela Kötz founded the Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein, which, with well over 100,000 visitors, is the second most popular film festival in Germany and of which he is director and partner.

Michael Kötz is also President of the Free Academy of the Arts Rhein-Neckar.

Director Dr. Michael Kötz during the opening of the International Film Festival in Heidelberg (2019)

Filmography

  • 1981: Heimatkunde (director)
  • 1988: Go wild for the cinema. A journey through the very latest German film (director)
  • 2001: A story with stubbornness (script, commentary, producer, editor, speaker, director)
  • 2007: Dreamlike Times - Telling a City. Mannheim 1607–2007 (screenplay, direction, speaker, producer. Editor Ralf Herrmann)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Key words on the history: 1999–1990. Internationales FilmFestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; accessed on July 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Presidium: Biographical Notes: Dr. Michael Kötz. Free Academy of the Arts Rhein-Neckar, archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; accessed on July 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kötz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager, film critic and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1951