Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg

Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Type Public
Established 1954 (1954)
President Susanne Stürmer
Rector Susanne Stürmer
Students 660
Location Potsdam, Brandenburg, Deutschland
Website www.filmuniversitaet.de/en/university.html

The Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (German: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) is the oldest and largest film school in Germany.[1] The university offers undergraduate, graduate, as well as post-graduate studies in all fields of the process of filmmaking.[2] In addition it is the only art school in Brandenburg, located together with the Babelsberg Film Studio in the media city Babelsberg.[3]

HFF's main building

Different departments have been established in order to expand the research, teaching and studies, as well as for the improvement of its national and international affiliations. Among them are the Institute for Artistic Research (Institut für künstlerische Forschung) and the Filmmusem Potsdam. With the same objective, the university also affiliated with the Erich Pommer Institute and the Institute for Occupational Research and Corporate Planning in the Media Business (Institut für Berufsforschung und Unternehmensplanung Medien).[4][5]

History

The institution was founded with effect from 1 November 1954 as a German Academy of Film Art (Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst) at Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam-Babelsberg and in 1969 it was renamed into Film and Television Academy of the GDR.[6][7] In 1985, it was named after the director Konrad Wolf, which was maintained, after the formal renaming in 1990 into Academy for Film and Television and to its revaluation to university in 2014.

On 8 July 2014, the conversion into the film university Babelsberg Konrad Wolf took place after 60 years of existence. 2 In addition to the university status, the spatial expansion plans also become more concrete.[8]

Until May 2000, the head of the university bore the title of rector, since then president. The first rector of the university was Kurt Maetzig, from 1954 to 1964. He was replaced by Konrad Schwalbe, who headed the Film school until 1969. Lutz Köhlert (1969-1973), Peter Ulbrich (1973-1980), Konrad Schwalbe (1980-1986) and Lothar Bisky(1986-1990) were successors until the political change. After the reunion until 1995 the rector was Wolf-Dieter Panse. His successor and from 2000 until 2013 the first president was Dieter Wiedemann. Since 2013, the first woman to lead the Academy and since 2014 the University is the managing director of UFA Film & TV production Susanne Stürmer.[9]

Studies

The Film University Babelsberg offers courses with film thematic. The degrees to be achieved are Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts. The courses of 2015/16 were animation, animation directing, audio visual application design, cinematography, digital media culture, script / dramaturgy, film and television production, film culture heritage, film music, film and television directing, media science, Editing, Directing, Drama, Sound, Sound for Picture, Scenography/Production Design and Scenography.[10]

The Media Studies program is the most research-oriented course of study at the Film University and includes basic academic research and application-oriented research that reflects the artistic practice. Every year students of the course Media studies organize with Sehsüchte the largest student film festival in Europe, which takes place in April on the university campus and in Thalia Cinema at the station Babelsberg (S-Banhof Babelsberg).[11]

In its course of studies, the Film University is the only university in the German-speaking world to explicitly represent the area of media-specific representation in its course of studies on the basis of sound theater education. 10] In addition to the participation in film and television productions, the theater students are already on stage of one of the municipal theaters during the course of a study, thanks to the long-standing cooperation with the Hans Otto Theater. (11)

Known Films

Over the years there have been shot a number of movies at the University. Thus, there were created the works Netto, Neun Szenen and Hallesche Kometen. In 2006 Berliner Reigen and in 2007 Am Ende kommen Touristen were shot. From the year 2010 there are Krankheit der Jugend, Topper gibt nicht auf, Nach Klara and Renn, wenn du kannst. Other works were 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad, Kriegerin, Dicke Mädchen and Little Thirteen (2011), Nach Wriezen and Am Himmel der Tag (2012), Love Steaks (2013), After Spring Comes Fall (2015), Am Ende der Wald (2016), Zwischen den Stühlen (2017).

Others

In 2011, the Academy of Film and Television sponsored an award for special artistic and scientific achievements. Jürgen Böttcher was the first prize winner to be a successful graduate of the university "for outstanding international successes in film and painting, for artistic freedom and political responsibility".[12]

References

  1. ↑ ONLINE, RP. "Interview: Susanne Stürmer: In Babelsberg soll auch geforscht werden". RP ONLINE. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  2. ↑ "Die Uni der Stars" (in German). Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  3. ↑ C. Slansky, Peter (2011). Filmhochschulen in Deutschland. Geschichte – Typologie – Architektur. München: edition text + kritik; Auflage: 1. ISBN 978-3-86916-116-7.
  4. ↑ "About us - EPI". en.epi.media. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  5. ↑ e.V., IBF Institut Berufs- und Innovationsforschung Medien. "Filmuniversität | IBF Institut Berufs- und Innovationsforschung Medien e.V." www.ibf-institut.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  6. ↑ Zwischen Regie und Regime. Die Filmpolitik der SED im Spiegel der DEFA-Produktionen. Berlin: Ch. Links. 2002. p. 80. ISBN 3-86153-262-X.
  7. ↑ Verordnung über die Bildung der Deutschen Hochschule für Filmkunst. 1954. p. 847.
  8. ↑ "Die Uni der Stars". www.tagesspiegel.de. 2014-07-07.
  9. ↑ "Ansturm auf Stürmer". pnn.de/potsdam. 2013-10-08.
  10. ↑ "Studiengänge". Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  11. ↑ "Festival".
  12. ↑ "Jürgen Böttcher".
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