Wolfgang Pfeiffer (film producer)
Wolfgang Otmar Pfeiffer , also Wolf Otto Pfeiffer, (born June 19, 1953 in Karlsruhe ) is a German film producer , director , screenwriter and blogger .
Life
Wolf Otto Pfeiffer studied humanities and then completed practical film training at a film production company. Since 1978 he has been working as a producer, screenwriter and director mainly in the field of cinema. From 1992 to 1999 he worked as a film consultant in Zimbabwe . There he was involved in setting up a film school for UNESCO and, according to his own statements, was involved in founding the “African Script Development Fund” for the Rockefeller Foundation , whose director was the African filmmaker Ben Zulu . After returning to Germany in 1999, he founded Wolfgang Pfeiffer Film GmBH in Berlin , consisting of a script school, a script agency (ArsDramatica) and a film production company.
Wolf Otto Pfeiffer advises film production companies and filmmakers on questions of script development and film poetology. Pfeiffer is also active as a lecturer and seminar leader. Wolf Otto Pfeiffer maintains the blog Berlinische Poetologie - Scriptwriting after Copernicus . Since 2014 he has also been the managing director of the partly non-profit organization Filmgeist - Center for the Promotion of the Spiritual in Film . The institution is based in Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
- 1985/1986: Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer (Writer, Producer, Director)
- 1988/1989: Amor America (producer)
- 1989–1992: Warheads (producer)
- 1989–1991: Forbidden Sounds. Music under the swastika (producer)
- 1989: Happy End (Director)
- 1990: In the shine of this happiness (producer)
- 1990–1992: The Black Box (producer)
- 1991/1992: Silent Land (producer)
- 1991: The last applause (director and producer)
- 1991: Children of Nature (producer)
- 1994/1995: Wigstock (producer)
Awards
Wolf Otto Pfeiffer's productions have already received awards.
- 1986: Golden Dove (for "Joe Polowsky - an American dreamer", Leipzig International Documentary Film Week)
- 1987: Peace Film Prize (for "Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer")
- 1992: Oscar nomination: Best Foreign Language Film (for "Children of Nature" - writer and director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson )
- 1992: Nomination for the European Film Award "Felix": Best Documentary (for "Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer")
Web links
- Wolfgang Pfeiffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfgang Pfeiffer at filmportal.de
- Website of Wolfgang Pfeiffer
- Blog Berlinische Poetologie
- www.filmgeist.org (Filmgeist Film Funding and Academy, Filmgeist Circle of Friends)
Individual evidence
- ^ Katrina Daly Thompson: Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity . Indiana University Press, 2013, ISBN 0-253-00646-5 ( google.de [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ A Tribute to Ben Zulu. In: NewsDay Zimbabwe. July 21, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Woe if Schlingensief comes. In: jungle.world. Retrieved September 14, 1997 .
- ↑ http://wolfottopfeiffer.wordpress.com/impressum/
- ↑ http://www.filmgeist.org/impressum/
- ↑ Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer (1986). Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Peace Film Prize 1987, the jury's reasons: Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer. Wolfgang Pfeiffer, 1987, accessed in 2017 (German).
- ^ Children of Nature (1991). Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pfeiffer, Wolfgang |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Otmar (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer, director, screenwriter and blogger |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |