Michael Schmid-Ospach

Michael Schmid-Ospach (2014)

Michael Schmid-Ospach (born August 29, 1945 in Heidelberg ) is a German journalist and former managing director of the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation .

Life

Schmid-Ospach studied German and psychology at the University of Cologne . After graduating, he became head of the feature pages of the Westdeutsche Rundschau in Wuppertal. Subsequently, he was initially deputy head of the church and radio editorial team of epd , media policy advisor to the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Heinz Kühn , spokesman for ARD and held various positions within WDR , such as deputy television director . In addition, he worked from 1998 to 2001 as a presenter for the ARD program Kulturweltspiegel .

On March 17, 1999, he was unanimously elected director of Radio Bremen , but had to resign on April 5, 1999 for health reasons.

From 1992 to 2001 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Filmstiftung NRW during the tenure of the then managing director Dieter Kosslick . He took over his office when Kosslick became director of the Berlinale in 2001 . In addition to this activity, he was a member of the FFA administrative board , the ZDF television council and the Franco-German film academy . Schmidt-Ospach left the Filmstiftung at the end of March 2010 and retired. For a short time, he acted as the founding managing director of the AV-Gründerzentrum NRW in Cologne, which is heavily subsidized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

further activities

• June 2007: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Adolf Grimme Institute
• September 2007: Deputy Chairman of the ZDF Television Council / 2011 election to the ZDF Administrative Council, until 2016 Chairman of the Finance Committee
• Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Münster , the University of Siegen , the University of Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
• Member of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK)
• Member of the Else Lasker Student Society
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Adolf Grimme Institute
• Member of the supervisory board of the European Center for Media Literacy

Awards

• October 2006: Appointment as honorary professor by the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

literature

• Crime scene State Chancellery. The Barschel Case - two years later (editor), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3-8729-4411-8 .
• My heart: nobody. An Else Lasker-Schüler Almanach (editor), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-8729-4545-9 .
• Holocaust. Letters to the WDR , by Heiner Lichtenstein (author), Michael Schmid-Ospach (author), Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1985, ISBN 3-8729-4148-8 .
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher (biography), by Barbara Dickmann (author), Michael Schmid-Ospach (author), Lübbe Verlagsgruppe, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-4046-1119-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Schmid-Ospach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Schmid-Ospach in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Filmstiftung NRW : Michael Schmid-Ospach's curriculum vitae ( memento of the original dated February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 15, 2007 
2. ^ Die Welt : Schmid-Ospach new head of the Filmstiftung NRW , from November 8, 2000
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