Ulrich Gregor

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Ulrich Gregor in February 2015

Ulrich Gregor (born September 18, 1932 in Hamburg ) is a German film historian .

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The son of the organist Gerhard Gregor ( Gerhard Gregor at the radio organ ) worked after graduating from high school in the electrical industry and in a shipyard in his hometown. He studied physics, Romance studies and journalism in Hamburg, Paris and West Berlin.

Since 1956 he has written film reviews and film journalistic works for domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines, including Filmforum , Film 56 , Filmkritik , Cinema Nuovo ( Milan ) and Cinéma 56 ( Paris ). He worked for radio and television .

In 1962 a story of the film , written together with Enno Patalas , appeared . Gregor and Patalas tried to embed the description of the individual films in the analysis of social, political and economic developments. In the paperback edition of 1976 Patalas and Gregor documented their meanwhile different understandings of film history. Gregor supplemented film history in 1978 with a “History of Film from 1960”, which also gave film the place it deserves outside of Western Europe and North America .

In 1963 he and his wife Erika co-founded the Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek . He taught at the Free University of Berlin , the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and the then Berlin University of the Arts . In 1970 he co-founded the “ Arsenal ” cinema . From 1970 he organized retrospectives and thematic programs as well as seminars there. From 1971 to 1979 he was speaker and from 1980 to 2000 director of the International Forum for New Films at the Berlinale , from 1981 to 2000 he was director of the Berlin Film Festival together with Moritz de Hadeln .

He is involved in selection committees for film funding (Kuratorium Junge Deutscher Film, Federal Ministry of the Interior, BKM) and in the film advisory board of the Goethe Institute . He is a member of the Academy of Arts .

Awards

In 1988 he received the Helmut Käutner Prize , and in 2003 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin . Ulrich Gregor and his wife Erika were awarded the Berlinale Camera at the 60th Berlin Film Festival in 2010 . In 2014 he and his wife were awarded the German Film Critics Prize.

Literature (selection)

  • (with Enno Patalas ), History of the Film - Gütersloh, S. Mohn, 1962
  • how they film, fifteen conversations with directors d. Present , ed. u. a. by Ulrich Gregor, Gütersloh, S. Mohn, 1966.
  • History of the film from 1960 , Munich, Bertelsmann, 1978

Movies

  • Film style and technique. 6-part documentary about film history, production: ProVobis Film for WDR West German television

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Berger, Hans-Michael Bock : “Playing with Difficult Factors” Conversation with Ulrich Gregor in: Eppendorfer Medienbrief, No. 18/19, June / July 1978, pp. 3–27
  2. ↑ Enno Patalas, “Ten Years Later” in: Ulrich Gregor, Enno Patalas, Geschichte des Films , Reinbek 1976, Volume 2, pp. 514-517
  3. ↑ cf. Berlinale camera from Düsseldorf . In: Rheinische Post, February 9, 2010 (accessed on February 11, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  4. ↑ German Film Critics' Prize 2014: Overview of prices and jury reasons at vdfk.de, accessed on February 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg