Wilhelm Hein (director)
Wilhelm Hein (born February 12, 1940 in Duisburg ; lives and works in Berlin ) is a German avant-garde filmmaker , film producer , film director , film theorist and performance artist . He is considered one of the most important "underground filmmakers" in Germany.
life and work
Wilhelm Hein studied art and economics at the University of Munich . This was followed by studying art history, philosophy and German in Cologne. For years Hein was the assistant to Professor Alphons Silbermann at the Institute for Mass Communication in Cologne.
In 1968 Wilhelm Hein co-founded " XScreen " in Cologne for subculture events and programming for various cinemas. " XScreen " was the first projection site for independent films in Germany.
From 1966 to 1988 he worked with Birgit Hein in the form of performances and films . Together with Birgit Hein, he was involved in two film projects at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New European Cinema department and also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977.
Wilhelm Hein published numerous publications on avant-garde film. Since 1989 he has been working on a 13-hour documentary, among other things.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- XSCREEN, materials about the underground film, W + B Hein, Phaidon Vlg 1971
Filmography
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Web links
- Art aspects
- filmportal.de
- Wilhelm Hein
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Hein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Wilhelm Hein (director) in the documenta archive
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hein, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker and film theorist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |