Wolf-Eckart Bühler
Wolf-Eckart Bühler ( September 17, 1945 - June 16, 2020 ) was a German director and book author.
Life
Bühler completed a degree in theater studies and philosophy. From 1972 he worked as an editor for the magazine Filmkritik .
After a series of television documentaries, Bühler staged a. a. three cinema productions for WDR in the mid-1980s. Subsequent plans to direct a purely fictional feature film came to nothing. Then he turned to writing travel guides. He wrote the first ever for Vietnam , the twelfth edition of which was published in 2014. He has been working with his partner Hella Kothmann for a long time.
The Munich Film Museum dedicated a retrospective to him in 2015. At the Locarno Festival 2018 he was honored for his work with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bühler lived in Schwabing for more than four decades .
Filmography
- 1983: Lighthouse of Chaos (with Sterling Hayden )
- 1984: Der Havarist (with Burkhard Driest , Rüdiger Vogler , Hannes Wader ) - published together with Leuchtturm des Chaos as a double DVD in Edition Filmmuseum , No. 113, 2018.
- 1986: Amerasia, music: Terry Allen
Publications (selection)
- A selection of Wolf-Eckart Bühler's publications in film reviews:
- John Ford's Stock Company (February 1972),
- Alfred Hitchcock - To a retrospective in Vienna (June 1977),
- Hank Worden (September / October 1977),
- John Ford - Tribute to a Legend (August 1978),
- Leo T. Hurwitz. Marxist film production in America (February 1979),
- Irving Lerner (Issues 1 and 2, 1981; including the text Death and Mathematics ).
- together with Hella Kothmann: Vietnam , 12th, revised. and completely updated edition, Bielefeld 2014.
- together with Hella Kothmann: Toscana , 8th edition Bielefeld 2015.
Web links
- Wolf-Eckart Bühler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ newfilmkritik.de entry from June 20, 2020.
- ^ Alf Mayer: The films by Wolf-Eckart Bühler. In: https://www.muenchner-stadtmuseum.de . Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Locarno Film Festival honors Wolf-Eckart Bühler. There is a lot of talking, drinking and smoking. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. August 2, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bühler, Wolf-Eckart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1945 |