Peter B. Schumann

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Peter B. Schumann, 2014

Peter B. Schumann (* 17th May 1941 in Erfurt ) is a German journalist with main focus Latin America .

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While studying political science , German studies , theater studies and journalism (1961–1965 in Freiburg and Berlin ), he began working as a freelance journalist. He learned the journalistic trade while working for the student magazines at both universities. The work as editor of Alternative offered an essential political orientation . Journal for Literature and Discussion of the Independent Left (1964–1982).

In 1966 he began working at the Berlin International Film Festival , where he was responsible for the retrospective from 1966 to 1970 and opened the festival with two film series for the New Latin American Cinema. From 1971 to 2006 he was a member of the management team of the International Forum of Young Films at the Berlinale, responsible for Latin America . From 1971 to 1985 he was also responsible for the Latin America selection of the West German Short Film Festival Oberhausen (today: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen ).

In 1968 he shot his first television program in Brazil with the series New Brazilian Film . In 1987 he became the first German TV journalist to interview the writer Gabriel García Márquez in detail.

In 1971, Film and Revolution in Latin America was the first of his numerous publications on Latin American film, and in 1987, Historia del cine latinoamericano, one of the first film stories in Latin America.

In 1973 he took up a teaching position, primarily at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin (1973–1979), which also brought him to the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and the University of Bremen.

From 1978 to 1989 he represented the German Union of Journalists (today ver.di ) on the administrative board of the Filmförderungsanstalt. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires . Since 2002 he has been a board member of the Friends of the Ibero-American Institute eV in Berlin , and since 2012 ambassador for Erfurt .

In his radio features, which he mostly directs himself, he has been committed to Latin American topics from the start and has presented the political and cultural situation of the continent in numerous contributions. In the political programs he was particularly interested in the transformation processes: the smashing of the democracies in Brazil , Chile , Uruguay and Argentina , the political and cultural resistance to the military dictatorships and the difficult processes of speech democratization. He has often described the consequences of neoliberalism on social and cultural development as well as the failure of socialist projects in Cuba and Venezuela . In recent years he has paid particular attention to the strengthening of social movements in Latin America.

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Publications

  • Ed .: Glauber Rocha e as culturas na América Latina (together with Peter W. Schulze). Frankfurt / M .: TFM 2011 / Biblioteca Luso-Brasileira 26, 252 pp.
  • Ed .: The morning is the last escape. Cuban literature between the ages (with Thomas Brovot). Berlin: Edition diá 1995, 220 pp.
  • Ed .: Some clues or the last way out (stories from Chile). Berlin: Edition diá 1994, 192 pp.
  • Handbook of Brazilian Film. Frankfurt / M .: Vervuert 1988, 160 pp.
  • Historia del cine latinoamericano. Buenos Aires: Legasa 1987, 362 pp.
  • Jacobo Borges (catalog book). Berlin 1987. 200 pp.
  • Handbook of Latin American Films. Frankfurt / M .: Vervuert 1982, 324 pp.
  • Cinema in Cuba 1959–1979. Frankfurt / M .: Vervuert 1980, 412 pp.
  • Cinema and Fight in Latin America. On the theory and practice of political cinema. Munich / Vienna: Hanser 1976, 264 pp.
  • Film and Revolution in Latin America. Oberhausen: Laufen 1971, 172 pp.

TV reports (selection)

  • Secret Cuba . Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio (8-part series for ZDF-Info, 2016). Consultant and interlocutor
  • Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Historia y orígenes en los años sesenta. DVD (Universidad del Cine / Goethe-Institut, Buenos Aires 2008)
  • The Red Screen (four-part television series about proletarian film in Germany, WDR III / NDR III, 1976)
  • Cinema in Cuba (WDR III, 1976)
  • German film in exile 1933–1945 ( ZDF - 1975)
  • “Conquer the film!” Proletarian film in Germany 1922–1933 ( ZDF 1973)
  • Cinema in Opposition (The Making of the New Latin American Feature Film, ZDF 1970)
  • Cinema in the Underground (The political documentary in Latin America, ZDF 1970)
  • New Brazilian Film (four-part television series, WDR III, 1968)
  • TV reports for WDR : Kino für Perón (1974); First elections in Cuba (1977); Cinema in Argentina (1985); Gabriel García Márquez (first detailed interview for German television, 1987); Miguel Littín underground in Chile (1987); Miguel Barnet (1987); Mario Benedetti (1987); Theater in Uruguay (1987); Art in Venezuela : Jacobo Borges (1988).

Radio feature (selection)

  • "The comrade who looks after us." Cuban dissident literature. DLF-K 2019
  • Berlin - film city for Latin Americans. RBB cultural radio 2019
  • "In Berlin I have grown wings". Long night over Berlin, the secret cultural capital of Latin Americans. (Three hours on literature, film and tango.) DLF / DLF-K 2018
  • Balancing act between art and politics. The Argentine film director Fernando Solanas. RBB cultural radio 2018
  • Argentinian authors on the rise - between microcosms and computer viruses. DLR 2018
  • The IMPA - a factory as a haven in neoliberal Argentina. SWR / DLF 2017
  • The new generation of authors in Mexico. Writing about violence in the face of violence. DLR 2017
  • Mexican literature under the sign of violence. Co-author: Rita Nierich. SWR 2017
  • Places of resistance. Berlin insights into the theater scene in Latin America. Co-author: Rita Nierich. RBB cultural radio 2017
  • From start to finish: Censorship in Cuba. DLF 2016
  • "We're tired of it!" Mexican civil society is fighting back. DLF / SWR 2016
  • Miguel de Cervantes - the inventor of Don Quixote . SWR 2016
  • The broken mirror. New voices in Central American literature. DLR 2016
  • Ecuador : cinema on the rise. RBB cultural radio 2015
  • Cuba : cinema in transition. Co-author: Rita Nierich. RBB cultural radio 2015
  • Venezuela on the way to dictatorship? Impressions from a battered country. SWR / DLF 2015
  • Writing under the sign of violence. Colombian literature between criticism and cliché. DLF 2015
  • Venezuela after Chavez : a country in its deepest crisis. DLF 2014
  • Spain under construction. Authors on the country's state-threatening crisis. Co-author: Rita Nierich. DLR 2014
  • The writer Julio Cortázar . On the Autobahn to the modern age. Co-author: Rita Nierich. SWR 2014
  • Parade ground for dictators. On the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Brazil . DLF 2014
  • Microteatro - how Spanish theater people save themselves from the crisis. RBB cultural radio 2014
  • Citizen revolution with weaving errors. Ecuador : a small country with great ambitions. SWR 2013
  • "Tell me about the crisis." Culture in Spain is resisting decline. DLF / SWR 2013
  • A path leads out of the darkness. A historical review of Latin America between dictatorship and democracy. DLF 2013
  • The periphery in the center. Brazil's marginal literature. DLR 2013
  • New literature from the Sugar Loaf. Brazil's young writers tell stories. SWR 2013
  • An ambitious balancing act in Ecuador between the raw materials industry and the education offensive. DLF 2013
  • “If you don't move, you can't move anything.” Culture of change in the favela Santa Marta. DLF 2013
  • Cine Brasil: The new generation. Co-author: Rita Nierich. RBB cultural radio 2013
  • On the death of Hugo Chávez . DLF 2013
  • Melancholy and protest. Young theater from Latin America. Co-author: Rita Nierich. RBB 2012
  • “I live a utopia that is not mine.” The Long Night of Cuban Dissidence . DLR / DLF 2012
  • “Education without friction!” The Chilean protest movement poses the question of the system. SWR / DLF 2012
  • Unfulfilled promises. Chile - two years after Piñera's election as president. DLF 2012
  • Departure into the past? The Venezuela of Hugo Chavez . DLF 2011
  • Culture under suspicion. Venezuelan culture and the Chavez government. DLF 2011
  • Adapt, max, survive. Writing in Cuba ( Miguel Barnet , Leonardo Padura ). DLR 2011
  • Contravía - against the current. How the reporter Hollman Morris fights for human rights in Colombia . Co-author: Rita Nierich. DLF 2011
  • Media of power? Problems of press freedom in Latin America. DLF 2011
  • Haiti - the island at the end of all dreams. A literary search for traces. SWR 2011
  • Democracy as an empty formula. Interim review of the revolution by Hugo Chávez . DLR 2011
  • Cuba : signs of change? DLF 2010
  • "Dinosaurs in Difficult Times". The Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa . DLR 2010
  • Roberto Bolaño : the cultivated 'savage'. DLR 2010
  • Bones in the desert. Literature and Violence in Mexico . DLF 2010
  • The Kirchner's politics - a contradicting balance sheet. DLF 2010
  • Argentina's young writers : writing against magical realism . SWR 2010
  • The Marco phenomenon . A young politician is stirring up the political fabric of Chile . DLF 2010
  • 20 years of Concertación : the end of a successful model and a turn to the right? DLF 2010
  • 1989 - turning point in Latin America . DLF 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Peter B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt