Wolfgang J. Ruf

Wolfgang J. Ruf (born June 6, 1943 in Munich ) is a German author and publicist. His range of topics includes cultural politics, theater, film, media, literature and contemporary history.

Life

Since the early 1970s, Ruf has worked as an author for a wide variety of publications, including film (later: television and film), Süddeutsche Zeitung, youth film television, church and film, church and radio / television, Die Zeit, Medium, German General Sunday paper, Deutsche Volkszeitung, R-Kultur magazine on the Rhine and Ruhr, epd film, courage; in the 1970s he also made regular contributions to the Bayer cultural program. Broadcasting / radio (editor: Peter Hamm). Furthermore, Ruf wrote numerous book articles.

From 1975 to 1985 Ruf was director of the West German Short Film Festival (today: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen ). During these years, the focus was on exchanges with film artists from the Eastern Bloc countries, with the Oberhausen Festival reflecting the democratic development in Poland with particular attention. Other focal points during Ruf's tenure were the regular presentation of independent films from the Third World as well as film historical retrospectives. The retrospective “The Ruhr Area in Film”, initiated by Ruf and realized by Roland Günter , attracted particular attention in 1978 and is still considered an exemplary exploration and presentation of the film history of a specific region.

From 1985 to 1995 Ruf was editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne and press officer for the German Stage Association (DBV) . As an editor, he succeeded in turning the body of the association for the members of the German Stage Association into a publicly respected specialist journal for all aspects of German and international theater. A focus of his work for the German Stage Association was the advisory participation at the side of the stage association president August Everding in the merger of the theaters and orchestras of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR after 1989.

From 1996 to 1997 he was chief dramaturge at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe .

Ruf made lecture tours at home and abroad, including for the Goethe Institute , and was a juror at German and international film and theater festivals as well as in German film funding. For several years he taught at the Zurich University of Music and Theater and at the Hagen Open University . Ruf has lived as a freelance author and lecturer in Wasgau since 2004 . In the film sector he works with the German-Romanian filmmaker Radu Gabrea , among other things as a co-author of the feature films “ The beheaded cock ” and “ Red gloves ” based on the novels of the same name by Eginald Schlattner .

Web links

• Wolfgang J. Ruf in the Internet Movie Database (English)