Rainer Koelmel

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Rainer Kölmel (born June 26, 1947 in Karlsruhe ) is a German film producer .

Life

Rainer Kölmel came on June 26, 1947 as the third of five sons of the country doctor Jakob Kölmel and his wife Magdalene Kölmel, nee. Röhl, on the world. He grew up in the Baden province, graduated from the Tulla-Gymnasium in Rastatt and studied history, political science and English in Heidelberg and Munich .

In 1969, he worked for six months on the TS Hamburg as rangeman and went on an outing during a stay in New York to Woodstock over.

He completed his studies with the first and second state exams and took on a position as a study assistant at a grammar school under construction in Königsbach near Pforzheim. A little later, he applied for a DAAD editing position in Great Britain and in 1974 began his work as a language assistant at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh . There he met his colleague and mentor Henry Prais , who had found refuge in Scotland as a Jewish persecuted by the Nazi regime. This encounter resulted in the doctorate on " Acculturation and Integration of German-Jewish Refugees in Scotland ". The work was submitted to Hartmut Soell in Heidelberg, where Rainer Kölmel received his doctorate in 1980. Scientific publications on the subject of the Holocaust followed .

During his time in Scotland Rainer Kölmel took acting lessons from the method acting teacher Walter Lott from the Actor Studio in New York. The attempt to become an actor failed.

In 1984 there was a meeting with his brother Michael Kölmel , at which Michael told him about his plan to set up a film distributor . Michael Kölmel, who also works at the university, already had experience programming cinemas and the Göttingen film festival. The first film to be approved for distribution was Gregory's Girl (1980) directed by Bill Forsyth . This established the connection to Scotland, Rainer Kölmel wrote the subtitles and became one of the founders of Kinowelt Filmverleihs .

Since the mid-eighties he has been a freelancer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) under the direction of Jim Hickey . His work there culminated in the organization of a retrospective of Pier Paulo Pasolini's film work, to which Laura Betti and the Pasolini biographer Enzo Siciliano also traveled from Rome. At the Edinburgh Film Festival, Rainer Kölmel got to know editors from the public broadcasters and began selling feature film television rights.

In 1989 he left Edinburgh and joined Thomas Häberle in the management of Kinowelt Filmverleih in Munich . From then on, he was mainly concerned with buying and selling cinema films. He also taught for several semesters at the Institute for Theater Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University as a lecturer in film .

Kinowelt Filmverleih became a distributor for art house films and went public in 1997 shortly after the Neuer Markt was founded. The company expanded and Kinowelt became a leading company in the media industry. The crisis of the new market that began in 2000 led to the bankruptcy of the cinema world in 2001 . The reasons for this decline are not sufficiently clear. At that time, Kinowelt had one of the most extensive and valuable film libraries in Germany and was the owner of the rights to the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the German-speaking area and all of Eastern Europe including Russia. The trigger was the cancellation of a loan from a Dutch bank, which was also one of the banks in the studio where the Lord of the Rings trilogy ended up. All financing banks, with the exception of the Dutch bank, were interested in the continuation of the cinema world. The Lord of the Rings trilogy grossed a total of more than € 600,000,000 in the licensed area of ​​the cinema world after the rights were transferred to the American studio.

Like his brother Michael, Rainer Kölmel was temporarily imprisoned for alleged tax evasion, bankruptcy delay and infidelity. The case against him has been dropped.

In 2002 he and his brother Michael managed to get the company out of bankruptcy with the help of the Stadtsparkasse Leipzig and to reorganize it after moving to Leipzig . Kinowelt quickly became one of the leading companies in the film industry again.

Rainer Kölmel acquired Kinowelt Filmproduktion from the bankruptcy estate and began to concentrate on feature film production. After Kinowelt was sold to Studiocanal in 2008, Kinowelt Filmproduktion was renamed Starhaus Filmproduktion . Wasiliki Bleser took over sole management in 2013.

Rainer Kölmel continues to work as a producer. His productions and co-productions include Julian Pölsler's Die Wand , Hans Weingartner's 303 and the documentary films Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmmacher von Dominik Wessely and Mika Kaurismäki's Mama Africa .

Rainer Kölmel is a member of the European , German and Austrian film academies .

He is married to the painter Sabine Kölmel and has no children.

Filmography

Publications

  • Beginnings of the Association of Jewish Refugees in London in anti-Semitism and Jewish history, studies in honor of Herbert A. Strauss , edited by Rainer Erb and Michael Schmidt, Wissenschaftlicher Autorverlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88840-248-4
  • Babel Reversed in Glasgow in Babel, The Cultural and Linguistic Barriers between Nations , edited by Rainer Kölmel and Jerry Payne, Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen 1989, ISBN 0-08-037969-9
  • German-Jewish Ethnicity in Great Britain in Bradford Occasional Papers , Autumn 1984, Issue No.6
  • Emigrants and the host society in conflict. On the history of German-Jewish refugees in Scotland in exile in Great Britain, on emigration from National Socialist Germany , edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld, publications by the German Historical Institute in London, Volume 14 Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-91142-1
  • The history of German-Jewish refugees in Scotland , inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg 1979
  • Problems of Settlement in Exile in Great Britain, Refugees from Hitler's Germany , edited by Gerhard Hirschfeld, Leamington Spa, 1984, ISBN 0-907582-21-4 and ISBN 0-391-03121-X
  • A Holocaust Memorial in Berlin? in Remembering for the Future, The Impact of the Holocaust on the Contemporary World, Theme II , Pergamon Press, Oxford 1988
  • The huge curiosity and the hedonistic need for great feelings in the 60s through the 60s and what became of them , edited by Werner Pieper, Löhrbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-925817-52-6

Web links

Commons : Rainer Kölmel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 25 years of the cinema world: From lecture hall to media group. In: blickpunktfilm.de. Retrieved September 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The first film dealer goes public on the Kinowelt stock exchange. In: tagesspiegel.de. May 4, 1998. Retrieved September 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ "Lord of the Rings" does magic for the competition. In: SPIEGEL online. October 16, 2001, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kinowelt: investigations stopped. In: manager magazin online. February 20, 2007, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sparkasse gives the green light: Kinowelt takeover secured. In: n-tv.de. December 15, 2002, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ MDR: Dr. Michael Kölmel in portrait. In: (Memento from January 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive). May 2, 2006, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ French broadcaster buys Kinowelt. In: tagesspiegel.de. January 17, 2008, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Kinowelt Filmproduktion becomes Starhaus Filmproduktion. In: blickpunktfilm.de. July 1, 2008, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Rainer Kölmel retires from the management of Starhaus Filmproduktion. In: blickpunktfilm.de. November 12, 2013, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  10. ^ Rainer Kölmel. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ European Film Academy - Member Dr. Rainer Koelmel. In: europeanfilmacademy.org. Retrieved September 11, 2018 .
  12. ^ Austrian Film Academy members. Retrieved September 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kölmel, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe