Ron Holloway (film scholar)

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Ronald Holloway (born November 26, 1933 in Peoria , Illinois , † December 16, 2009 in Berlin ) was an American film journalist and film historian . He appeared primarily as a promoter of Eastern European and German film .

Life

Ron Holloway grew up in Illinois. He studied Catholic theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake (Mundelein Seminary), where he also earned a Master of Arts degree. He was ordained a priest in 1959 and served in a parish in Elmwood Park . In 1962, Holloway co-founded the Chicago Center for Film Study . He began writing film reviews for Catholic magazines and befriended writers like Pauline Kael . Holloway finally decided to take up a degree in film studies. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship and went to Paris , where, in addition to his studies , he oversaw several film programs at the Cinémathèque française . Holloway moved to Hamburg and graduated in 1972 his dissertation on the religious dimension in the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer , Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson from, with whom he 1973 Theological Evangelical on the faculty of the University of Hamburg for Dr. theol. received his doctorate . In Hamburg, Holloway met the actress Dorothea Moritz , whom he later married and with whom he created numerous publications.

Funeral service of Ron Holloway in the Johanniskirche January 17th 2010

In 1976 Ron Holloway was hired as a correspondent for the industry journal Variety for Germany and Eastern Europe. Holloway moved to Berlin , where he was invited by Wolf Donner , the director of the Berlinale , to work on the selection committee of the film festival. A decade-long collaboration began with the organizing committee of the Berlinale, in which Holloway had campaigned for the establishment of various competition sections.

In 1979, Holloway and his wife Dorothea Moritz founded the English-language magazine KINO - German Film & International Reports , which is committed to the promotion of New German Cinema - and continues to be published by Dorothea Holloway. Holloway had been organizing retrospectives of German films in the United States since the mid-1970s . He coined the English expression New German Cinema .

In addition to his work on German film, Holloway distinguished himself as a promoter of Eastern European cinema. He created The Holloway Files , a database of film directors from the former Soviet republics . In 1994 Holloway also produced the documentary Paradjanov: A Requiem about the Armenian director Sergei Paradschanow and a television documentary about Elem Klimov .

Ron Holloway's article has appeared in magazines such as Variety , The Hollywood Reporter , Moving Pictures , Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune . He reported regularly from the European film festivals and published a total of six books.

Holloway has received numerous awards for his journalistic achievements, including the Berlinale Camera , the Freedom Award from the American Cinema Foundation, and awards from the film academies of Poland and Russia . A week before his death, Ron Holloway was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Association of German Film Critics . On February 8, 1999, Ron Holloway was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon.

Publications

  • The Religious Dimension in the Cinema. With Particular Reference to the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson , Hamburg 1972 (Dissertation, Universität Hamburg 1973)
  • Z Is for Zagreb , Tantivy Press, London 1972 ( ISBN 0-900730-52-8 )
  • O Is for Oberhausen: Way to the Neighbors , Laufen, Oberhausen 1979 ( ISBN 3-87468-009-6 )
  • The Bulgarian Cinema , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, NJ 1986 ( ISBN 0-8386-3183-5 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ron Holloway: Chicago Center for Film Study: Origin and History . In: Kinema, spring 2006.
  2. ^ Die Welt : Streiter fürs Neue Deutsche Kino: Ron Holloway dead on December 17, 2009 (accessed December 17, 2009).
  3. ↑ Berlinale press release of January 30, 2007 (accessed December 17, 2009)
  4. ↑ KINO - German Film: VDFK Honorary Award for Ron Holloway on December 9, 2009 (accessed December 17, 2009).
  5. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Holloway, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holloway, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film journalist and film historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Peoria (Illinois) , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2009
Place of death Berlin , Germany