Rolf Giesen

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Rolf Giesen (born July 4, 1953 in Moers ) is a German film scholar , film journalist and non-fiction author . He is one of the leading German specialists in fantastic films , animated films and horror films , through which he won the popular title “Dr. Horror ”received.

Life

Rolf Giesen studied sociology , psychology and ancient history at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1979 with a dissertation on the fantastic film. phil. A topic that became his life's work. He has published numerous articles and books about the cinema of the fantastic - from fantasy films , science fiction films and horror films to the various techniques of animation , which he dealt with particularly intensively. From 1982 to 1984 he was chairman of the German Trickfilmverband eV and organized drawing film festivals. More recently, Giesen has also dealt with the propaganda films of the Third Reich .

Giesen is an employee of the Berlin Film Museum - Deutsche Kinemathek - and there director of a collection of animated films named after him. The Rolf Giesen Collection of the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin Foundation is considered to be one of the best collections on the subject of film fantasy in Europe. Giesen also designed the permanent exhibition “ Artificial Worlds ” at the Berlin Film Museum, which focuses on the life's work of the animated film maker Ray Harryhausen . Other exhibitions organized by Giesen were “ Asterix , Mickey Mouse & Co. ” (1986) and “ Cinefantastic ”. He also contributed the scripts for the animated film Die Digedags in Grauer Vorzeit (1999) and the television cartoon series The Neverending Story (1996). He acted as a consultant for the films Lorenz in the Land of Liars (1997) and Lauras Stern (2004) and as a production supervisor for Asterix - Operation Hinkelstein (1989).

In addition to teaching assignments at various universities, technical colleges and film academies, Giesen also taught as an honorary professor at the German Film School for digital production . He is an Associate Professor at Peking University , where he lectured in 2007. As “Dr. Horror ”, Rolf Giesen recorded a record with the group“ Niagara ”in the early 1980s. He is a member of the Visual Effects Society in Los Angeles . Giesen lives and works in Berlin and Beijing.

Works

General film books

  • Science fiction. 50 classics from SF cinema , Roloff & Seesslen, Schondorf 1981
  • together with Norbert Stresau , Wolfgang J. Fuchs: Der phantastische Film , Edition Achteinhalb, Ebersberg 1983
  • Cinema - like nobody likes it. The worst films in the world , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1983/1984
  • Lexicon of the fantastic film. Horror - Science-Fiction - Fantasy (2 volumes), Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, 1984
  • Special effects. King Kong , Orphée and the trip to the moon . With contributions by LB Abbott , Linwood G. Dunn , Helmut Herbst , Peter Kutzner , Theo Nischwitz , Karl Ludwig Ruppel , HO Schulze , Douglas Trumbull , Edition Achteinhalb, Ebersberg 1985, ISBN 3-923979-07-X
  • TV as everyone hates it. A horror trip through the TV country , Munich 1987
  • Fabulous worlds. The fantastic film. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-03776-6 .
  • Laugh bombs. The great film comedians. From silent films to the 1940s , Munich 1991
  • The great film comedians. From 1945 until today , Munich 1993
  • Godzilla - Gamera - Gappa . The history of the Japanese monster films. Japan's primeval world giants in German cinemas , Berlin 1998
  • together with Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen , Norbert Stresau : The new lexicon of fantasy films. More than 1300 fantasy films with filmographic information, production dates, content, cast and reviews , Berlin 2001
  • Lexicon of Special Effects , Berlin 2001
  • together with Ronald M. Hahn: The worst films of all time. A journey through the greatest embarrassments in cinema history , Berlin 2002
  • together with Ronald M. Hahn, Volker Jansen: Das neue Lexikon des Horrorfilms , Berlin 2002
  • Lexicon of cartoons and animated films. The big world of animated films , Berlin 2003
  • together with Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex , Jud Suess and Kolberg . The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Documents and materials on Nazi film , Berlin 2005
  • The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy , Carolina 2019

Biographies

  • together with John Boorman : John Boorman - Hope and Glory - Hope and Glory. The portrait of the cinema magician , Munich 1987
  • together with Ronald M. Hahn: Alfred Hitchcock . The master of fear , Munich 1999

Novels

  • Falkenau forest house . (Novel for the ZDF series of the same name), Nuremberg 1996
  • Poltergeist : Night of the Ghostbusters , Nuremberg 1997
  • Poltergeist: Demonenbrut , Nuremberg 1997
  • Lexx - The Dark Zone : Rebels of the Galaxy , Nuremberg 1997
  • Lexx: Supernova , Nuremberg 1998
  • Against the Wind , Nuremberg 1998

As editor (and mostly also co-author)

  • Fantasy. Studies on Fantasticism , Schondorf am Ammersee 1982
  • The big book from the drawing film , Berlin 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Giesen: A Eurasian Affair - Animated Film History from Beijing and Berlin: “Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian”. (No longer available online.) Filmdienst, September 28, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 28, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / film-dienst.kim-info.de  
personal data
SURNAME Giesen, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers