Stefan Drößler

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Stefan Drößler (* 1961 in Hillesheim (Eifel) ) is a German film historian and expert on silent films . He is the director of the Munich Film Museum , founder and curator of the International Silent Film Festival in Bonn and restorer of old films. He also participates in the organization of international film festivals .

Life

Stefan Drößler was born in Hillesheim in 1961 and grew up in the Cologne-Bonn area. During his school days at the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, he founded a film company. Drößler studied at the University of Bonn, where he ran a film club and organized film festivals and film seminars. In 1984/85 he was a film advisor for the Federal Association for Student Cultural Work BSK eV, and from 1984 to 1989 he directed the international festival for experimental short films "experi & nixperi". In 1985 he founded the Bonn Summer Cinema with Matthias Keuthen, back then as a mixture of sound and silent films in Poppelsdorf Castle . From 1986 to 1998 Drößler was director of the Bonner Kinemathek and the Brotfabrik-Kino in Beuel . During his time in Bonn, he also organized the film program for the House of History and the Federal Art Hall . He still directs the Bonn Silent Film Festival, which emerged from the summer cinema.

Drößler has been the director of the Munich Film Museum since 1999. There he works on the restoration of damaged or partially lost films, mostly from the 1910s and 1920s, but also from the 1950s, such as Lola Montez from Max Ophüls or Mr. Arkadin from Orson Welles . In addition, he continues to work on international projects, for example in 2005 he organized an Orson-Welles retrospective at the Locarno Film Festival . From 2001 to 2005 he sat on the Executive Committee of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), and has been a member of the Film Advisory Board at the Goethe-Institut since 2007 . In 2006 he and others founded the DVD label Edition Filmmuseum , in which the film archives from German-speaking countries publish their archive treasures and film restorations. In 2008 Drößler appeared in the documentary Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Süss , and in 2010 in the documentary Mythos Metropolis .

As an author Drößler published texts and articles in magazines such as Film-Dienst , Recherche Film und Fernsehen , Journal of Film Preservation and Film History as well as books on film history and film technology. As editor he published festival catalogs, programs, DVD booklets and books on film restoration and Orson Welles. As a guest he gave lectures, lectures and seminars at universities and colleges in Germany and abroad, for example at the University of Television and Film in Munich, the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, the New York University, Yale University in New Haven, Harvard University in Cambridge, University of California in Los Angeles and CalArts in Santa Clarita.

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  1. ↑ Ulrike Eva Klopp: “The dream of one's own cinema”, forsch 2/3, University of Bonn, June 2008, pp. 46–47
  2. ↑ Ulrike Strauch: "Beads from Pandora's Box", General-Anzeiger Bonn, August 18, 2009, p. 13
  3. ↑ Michael Guillen: "Lola Montès - Stefan Drössler PFA Lecture" , The Evening Class, November 3, 2008
  4. ↑ David Kehr, "New DVD's," The New York Times, April 18, 2006
  5. ↑ Anke Leweke: "A merciless self-promoter" , about Orson Welles, taz - the daily newspaper
  6. ↑ Cathy Rohnke: "Hunter of Lost Films" , Goethe-Institut, August 2007
  7. ↑ Stefan Drößler (ed.): "The unknown Orson Welles", Belleville Verlag Munich 2004
  8. ↑ https://ru.muenchen.de/2020/23/Leiter-des-Filmmuseums-mit-polnischer-Ehrenmedaille-ausgezeich-89612
personal data
SURNAME Drößler, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum director and film restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillesheim (Eifel)