Konrad Wolf
Konrad Wolf ( born October 20, 1925 in Hechingen, Hohenzollern land; † March 7, 1982 in Berlin) was a film director of the German Democratic Republic.
Life
Konrad Wolf is the son of the physician and writer Friedrich Wolf and the brother of Markus Wolf, the longtime head of the foreign intelligence service of the GDR. 1933 the family emigrated first to France and later from there to Moscow. He attended the German Karl- Liebknecht- school and acquired Soviet citizenship. Even at this time came Konrad Wolf intensively with the Soviet film in contact. The age of ten he played a supporting role in the 1936 film exile borzy (Fighter ) by the director Gustav von Wangenheim.
At seventeen, he joined the Red Army and was in 1945 at nineteen to the troops who took Berlin. For a short time he was the first Soviet city commander of Bernau bei Berlin in April 1945. From 1945 to 1947 he was responsible for the SMAD ( Soviet Military Administration ) in Wittenberg, Halle ( Saale) responsible for the performing arts. From 1949 to 1954 he studied at the Moscow film school, founded in 1919.
He then worked as a director at the DEFA, where he turned demanding and critical presence movies especially. His war experience he later described in this impressive film I was nineteen ( 1968). The relationship between Germans and Russians occupied him throughout his life. In his late work, more and more critical voices against the influence of art by authorities noisy - about Goya in his epic or in the silent film The Naked Man on the sports field. His feature film Solo Sunny, which he directed in collaboration with his longtime screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, shows the life of an outsider of GDR society in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin.
Most recently, he worked as artistic director of a 6- part documentary project Busch sings, which should be a cross-section of the political and artistic development of the first half of the 20th century in Germany based on the biography of the communist actor and singer Ernst Busch.
From 1965 to 1982 he was president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR.
Konrad Wolf was married to his first wife, from 1955 to 1960 with the costume designer Annegret Reuter, in a second marriage from 1960 to 1978 with the actress Christel Bodenstein.
Konrad Wolf died at the age of 56 years in Berlin from cancer. His urn was buried on 12 March 1982 in a state funeral in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin- Lichtenberg. His extensive written heritage is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
Awards
Konrad Wolf is an honorary citizen of the city of Bernau bei Berlin. Since 1985, the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam and a street named after him in the Lichtenberg district. According to him, the Konrad Wolf Prize is named.