Thilo Wydra

Thilo Wydra (born December 18, 1968 in Wiesbaden ) is a German author and journalist .

Career

Wydra studied comparative literature , German literature , art history and film studies at the universities in Mainz and Dijon . He has been working as a freelance author and journalist since the early 1990s.

Wydra has since the 1990s, including in the newspapers Der Tagesspiegel , Die Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published in the journal Filmecho / Film Week and online media such as Goethe.de and Zeit.de . He is the author of articles in film books, film dictionaries, festival catalogs and has published biographies that have been translated into other languages.

In 1996 he helped organize the first Volker Schlöndorff retrospective in Wiesbaden ; In 2003 and 2004 he was responsible for the retrospectives of the French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart .

From 2004 to 2011 Wydra was Germany correspondent for the Cannes International Film Festival .

He lives in Munich .

Memberships

• Since 1996 member of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFK), participation in FIPRESCI juries at international film festivals .
• Since 2016 member of the collecting society Wort .
• Member of the Association of German Writers since 2016 .

Publications

• Volker Schlöndorff and his films. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-453-13228-9
• Margarethe von Trotta - Films in order to survive . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-89487-359-0
• Rosenstrasse - The story. The director. The backgrounds . Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89479-086-5
• Bella Block - Movies, Facts, Background. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3-89487-507-7
• Romy Schneider . Life - work - effect. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008. ISBN 978-3-518-18230-7
• Alfred Hitchcock . Life - work - effect. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-518-18243-7
• Grace. The biography. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-351-02756-8
• Grace. The biography. Structure paperback, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-7466-3025-0
• Grace Kelly . Movie stills. Illustrated book with an introduction. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-8296-0667-7
• Grace. A biography. Skyhorse Publishing, New York 2014. ISBN 978-1-6291-4541-9
• Hannelore Hoger . Without love the stars mourn. Chapter VI: "I'm tough". From conversations with Thilo Wydra. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017. ISBN 978-3-498-03034-6
• Ingrid Bergman . One life. DVA, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-421-04673-4
• Hitchcock's blondes. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-8296-0835-0

Audio books

• Romy Schneider. Read by Katja Riemann. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-455-30577-7
• Grace. A biography. Read by Jonathan Yen. Audible Audio Book, New York 2014.

Filmography

• Romy . TV movie. Expert advice (ARD first broadcast on November 11, 2009).
• ZDF History : The Two Lives of Grace Kelly. Documentation. Interview partner / expert advice (ZDF first broadcast on December 16, 2012).
• ZDFzeit : Royal Dynasties - The Grimaldis. Documentation. Interview partner / specialist advice (ZDF first broadcast on August 2, 2016).
• ZDF History : Goddesses of the Screen. Documentation. Interview partner / specialist advice (ZDF first broadcast on February 5, 2017).
• ZDF History : Royal Weddings . Documentation. Interview partner (ZDF first broadcast on May 13, 2018).
• ZDFzeit : Myth Monaco. Grace Kelly's legacy. Documentation. Interview partner (ZDF first broadcast on July 23, 2019).

Web links

• Literature by and about Thilo Wydra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author website by Thilo Wydra