Volker Anding (director)
Volker Anding (born May 31, 1950 in Radevormwald ) is a German director , multimedia artist and university lecturer. He has been awarded the Grimme Prize several times .
Life
Anding studied communication design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal from 1967 to 1972 and he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, with Fritz Schwegler and Irmin Kamp. In 1977/78 he received the MoMA PS1 scholarship together with Thomas Struth . The first video art projects and short films followed , which were shown at international festivals and broadcast by numerous broadcasters. In 1980 he became a master student of Irmin Kamp.
For the ZDF documentary The Fall of the Elephant about the fall of the circus elephant Tuffi from the Wuppertal suspension railway , he received the Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze for directing in 1987 . For his feature film Daily TV (1988/89) Anding u. a. with actor and presenter Chris Howland . The filmic gloss on media and viewing habits was co-produced by the ZDF- Kleine Fernsehspiel . The art-music format Donner's Tag on Kanal 4 culture channel (40 episodes) received the Grimme Prize in silver in 1991 .
In 1999 he received his third Grimme Prize for the documentary Ratten .
In cooperation with ZDF / ARTE , the documentary film projects Ghosts are also only people (2001) and The Spooky House (2003). The documentary The Spirits That Called Me was released in 2018.
Anding also works as a university lecturer. From 1992 to 1993 he was a lecturer at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the “New Media - Theory and Practice” department, where he focused on documentary film . At the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf , he has held a teaching position for script development and editing dramaturgy since 2002.
Volker Anding lives and works in Wuppertal .
Awards
- 1986: Promotion Prize of the Von der Heydt Culture Prize
- 1987: Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze for The Fall of the Elephant
- 1987: Prize of the Montbéliard International Video Festival
- 1991: Silver Grimme Prize for script and direction of Donner's Tag "on Kanal 4, episodes 1-3 , representing the entire team (Volker Anding, Peter Nadermann, Joachim Ortmanns, Axel Wirths )
- 1999: Adolf Grimme Prize for book, directing, co-author / director was Enno Hungerland (WDR)
Web links
- Volker Anding on musikundmedien.net
- Volker Anding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
literature
- Karl Ruhrberg (Ed.): Zeitzeichen. Stations in fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia. DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2314-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anding, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, multimedia artist, Grimme Prize winner and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Radevormwald |