Wolfgang Gersch

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Wolfgang Gersch (born June 13, 1935 in Neurode , Silesia ; † February 21, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German film scholar and theater critic .

Life

Wolfgang Gersch was born in Neurode / Silesia in 1935. He studied dramaturgy at the Babelsberg Film Academy , then theater studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1960 to 1968 he was a film editor at Berliner Rundfunk , the magazine Deutsche Filmkunst and the quarterly publication 'film - Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen', and from 1969 film historian at the Institute for Film Studies. In 1973 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University and was a lecturer at the University of Film and Television. From 1982 to 1990 he worked at the Institute for Aesthetics at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1960 to 1985 he was also a regular theater critic for the East Berlin daily Tribüne .

In 1990 he became department head (film) in the culture ministry of the GDR government de Maizière . Between 1990 and 2000 he worked in the Federal Film Department, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media . He lived with his wife, the literary translator Christel Gersch, in Berlin-Pankow ; they have two children. The son Tilman Gersch is a theater director and artistic director.

Wolfgang Gersch died on February 21, 2020 in Berlin.

Act

Wolfgang Gersch has written reviews, essays, books, and radio features. He gave numerous lectures and readings at home and abroad. He has co-wrote documentary films, a. a. 'Die Mit-Arbeitererin' (Elisabeth Hauptmann) by Karlheinz Mund .

Publications (selection)

  • Brecht's texts for films (co-ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1969, Berlin (East) 1971
  • Bertolt Brecht. Kuhle Wampe. Protocol of the film and materials (co-ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1969, Leipzig 1971
  • Film by Brecht , Berlin 1975, Munich 1976
  • Béla Balázs' writings on film (co-ed.), 2 vol., Berlin (East), Budapest, Munich 1982, 1984
  • Swiss cinema trips , encounters with the new Swiss film; Berlin (East), Munich, Zurich 1984
  • Chaplin in Berlin. Illustrated miniature based on Berlin newspapers from 1931 , Berlin (East), Berlin (West) 1989 and Berlin 1999
  • Scenes of a country. The GDR and its films , Berlin 2006
  • History of the opportunities that were not perceived or How the end of DEFA began in 1990 , publication of the DEFA Foundation 2011
  • We were glowing! The GDR magazine "film - Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 1964/65" , in: Johannes Roschlau (Red.): In the sign of the crisis. The cinema of the early 1960s. Munich: Edition Text + Critique 2013, pp. 146–155.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Schenk: Obituary for the film historian Wolfgang Gersch. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gersch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film scholar and theater critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Neurode , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2020
Place of death Berlin