Wolfgang Pfeiffer (film producer)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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]).
  2. ↑ A Tribute to Ben Zulu. In: NewsDay Zimbabwe. July 21, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Woe if Schlingensief comes. In: jungle.world. Retrieved September 14, 1997 .
  4. ↑ http://wolfottopfeiffer.wordpress.com/impressum/
  5. ↑ http://www.filmgeist.org/impressum/
  6. ↑ Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer (1986). Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Peace Film Prize 1987, the jury's reasons: Joe Polowsky - An American Dreamer. Wolfgang Pfeiffer, 1987, accessed in 2017 (German).
  8. ^ Children of Nature (1991). Retrieved November 19, 2017 .
personal data
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