Wolf Donner (film publicist)

Wolf Donner (born April 29, 1939 in Vienna ; † September 6, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German film critic and director of the Berlinale for three years .

Life

Wolf Donner studied German , philosophy and theater studies . After graduating, he worked as a journalist . He wrote film reviews for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and was a film editor for seven years.

When the founding director of the Berlinale, Alfred Bauer, retired in 1976, Donner was appointed as his successor. He directed the festival from 1977 to 1979. Under his direction, the date of the festival was changed. Since the 1978 Berlinale , the festival has taken place in February and no longer in summer.

In 1979 he worked as a journalist for a year in the culture department of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel and then worked as a freelance publicist. Donner also taught at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Grave of Wolf Donner in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Wolf Donner died on September 6, 1994 at the age of 55 in a Berlin hospital from a lung disease from which he had suffered for several years. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-Wald-7).

Wolf Donner's estate is in the archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Book publications

1989: signals of sensuality. Eroticism in the movie. ISBN 978-3453037731
1995: Propaganda and film in the Third Reich. ISBN 978-3931668419

watch TV

1992: Can't the German film be better? , ARD (together with Stephan Guntli )

Filmography

1976 Heinrich
1985 Bitter harvest

Awards

1995: Helmut Käutner Prize ( posthumous )

Web links

Bio / cinegraphic note from the Berlin International Film Festival
Farewell to a friend - obituary by Andreas Kilb
Wolf Donner at filmportal.de
Wolf-Donner archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Kilb : Farewell to a friend. Wolf Donner . In: The time . No. 38, September 16, 1994. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 195.

personal data
SURNAME	Thunder, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, film publicist and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1994
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Andreas Kilb : Farewell to a friend. Wolf Donner . In: The time . No. 38, September 16, 1994. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 195.