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Wieland Walter Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was program director of the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival ( Berlinale ) from 1992 to 2017 , where over 1,800 films were screened under his direction. He is currently an advisor to the section and will curate the anniversary program in 2019.
Life
Speck has lived in Berlin since 1972 . He studied German, theater studies and ethnology at the local Free University . Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been involved in various areas of film and video as well as an author and publisher.
The focus of his work was on male emancipation and homosexual identity. He has also appeared in films by David Hemmings , Robert van Ackeren , Ulrike Ottinger and Ian Pringle, among others. As a theater director he was responsible for the Berlin OFF-OFF cinema Tali (today Moviemento ) in Kreuzberg for several years .
Wieland Speck began his own film work with various video documentations. From 1979 to 1981 he completed a film degree at the San Francisco Art Institute . In 1978 he played a gigolo in Marlene Dietrich 's last film, Schöner Gigolo, poor Gigolo, and was a presenter at the legendary Geniale Dilletanten festival in 1981 with Die Tödliche Doris , Gudrun Gut , DIN A Testbild and Einstürzende Neubauten in Berlin's Tempodrom .
Wieland Speck is a director , screenwriter or producer of several cinema and TV productions and co-founder of a short film distributor. In addition, Speck has worked at various film establishments - including Filmhaus Berlin , Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg , European Short Film Festival Berlin - and has worked as a lecturer at universities and film schools. In 1985 he first directed a film; the homosexual east-west love story Westler was also his most successful film and is still successful in its various re-performances - also from a political point of view - far beyond the target group of homosexual viewers.
Wieland Speck had been working for the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival, which was named in 1986, since 1982. From 1982 to 1992 he was the assistant to the program manager Manfred Salzgeber, responsible for the artistic and organizational support of the section. Together they founded the Teddy Award (queer film award / Berlinale) in 1987 . Wieland Speck was a member of the jury of various international film festivals and a member of the committees of the Berlin State Film Fund (1990–1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994–1998).
Rosa von Praunheim praised Speck's work with the film Speck You Catch Films (2012).
Filmography
- 1980: David, Montgomery and I (director, screenplay, camera, editor)
- 1982: The Sound of Rapid Redemption (direction, screenplay, camera, editing)
- 1985: Westler (Director, Screenplay, Production)
- 2000: The Erika and Klaus Mann story (director, screenplay)
Prizes and awards
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2011: Nino Gennaro Award ( Sicilia Queer filmfest )
- 2019: Berlinale Camera
Web links
- Literature by and about Wieland Speck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wieland Speck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manfred Hermes: “Seducing the Economy” , March 6, 2003 - Interview about the past and present of gay and lesbian cinema
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bacon, Wieland |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Speck, Wieland Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German program director of the Panorama section of the Berlinale |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |