University of Television and Film Munich

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The University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich ) is a public university sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria. The film school has about 350 students. The proportion of women is approximately 48%.

History

Initiated and co-founded the university was on 19 July 1966 by his early television director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helmut Oeller, who taught there for several years and later served as president of the university. Since its founding 1664, students went through his studies at the Munich Film School. From 1967-1988, the Munich Film Academy was housed in an old villa in the Kaulbachstraße. As the building was only partially suitable for the teaching of all subjects, was also in the offices of Kaulbachstraße, the former German Institute for Film and Television ( DIFF), the studios of the BR on Rundfunkplatz and in Freimann, the Bavaria in Geiselgasteig and ZDF taught in Unterföhring. 1988 Finally, the company moved into the former Bettfedernfabrik in the Giesing district of Munich. The HFF Munich got there her first film and television studio. 2007 celebrated the HFF Munich its 40th anniversary, as well as laying the foundation stone for a new building in the Museum District of Munich on the former site of the South Building of the TU Munich, which was built on the Gabelsbergerstraße opposite the Alte Pinakothek and was inaugurated on September 15, 2011. Today the postal address Bernd Eichinger place is 1

The HFF is a founding member of the Media Campus Bavaria, the governing body for media education and further training in Bavaria.

Courses

Applications were made November 15 to February 28 of each year for 5 different courses.

• Division III - Directed by cinema and television film (7-9 places )
• Division IV - Directed by documentary and television journalism (7-9 places )
• Division V - production and media management (10-15 places )
• Division VI - screenplay (7-9 places )
• Division VII - Camera (7-9 places )

Compulsory for the students of all the above courses are the courses offered by

• Division I - Communication and Media Studies
• Division II - Technology

Additional Electives offer course- cross course offerings:

• Creative Writing
• TV journalism
• Advertising, PR and corporate video

Furthermore, in cooperation with the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Ever thing exists the postgraduate course in theater, film and television criticism.

Since 2007, the Munich Film School offers technical parts of their course of study for External. The Center for Film Studies technology the HFF Munich leads since 2009 February-April practice and theory workshops on film- technical topics. In addition, some modules are available as e-courses.

Ranking

In the film, university ranking of the news magazine Focus ( Issue 22 /2006), which was created in collaboration with the Art Directors Club, the HFF Munich occupied a place in the midfield. The Film Academy Baden- Württemberg, the International Film School Cologne, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin occupied the top spots. In addition to the reputation of the university, the care situation of students, the technical equipment and the number of prizes won were an evaluation criterion. The entire film university ranking of the Focus and the Art Directors Club was accused of serious methodological errors later from different sides.

According to the latest ranking of the U.S. magazine "The Hollywood Reporter" is the HFF Munich 16th place as the only German film school under 25 rated film schools around the world. As best European film school was renamed La Fémis (Paris, France) at No. 6 Place 1 occupied the U.S. film school at the University of Southern California.

Success at the Oscars

Some graduates and students of the Munich Film School have been nominated for an Oscar or a student Oscar or received selfsame: Katja von Garnier was in 1994 to accept a student Oscar for Abgeschminkt, Florian Gall Berger was founded in 2000 with the Student Oscar and 2001 with the short film Oscar excellent for Quiero ser Caroline Link won the 1997 Oscar-nominated for Beyond Silence and finally won it in 2003 for Nowhere in Africa. 2005 crowned the Oscar nomination of The Story of the Weeping Camel movie success of both HFF students Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa. On 25 February 2007, the Stasi drama The Lives of Others won by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film. In May 2007, were nominated for the Academy students Fairtrade by Michael Dreher and Milan by Michaela Kezele.

Professors

Currently teach Axel Block, Doris Dorrie, Georg Feil, Gerhard Fuchs, Michaela Krützen, Bernd C. viewfinder, Andreas Gruber, Michael Gutmann, Manfred Heid, Christian Köster, Franz Kraus Toni Lüdi, Josef Rödl, Peter C. Slansky, Heiner Stadler, Peter Zeitlinger constantly at HFF.

Honorary Professors of HFF are, inter alia, further Michael Ballhaus, Andy Goldstein, Kurt Hentschel, Helmut Jedele, Reinhold Kreile, John Kreile, Dieter Kronzucker, Caroline Link, Helmut Oeller, Fritz Pleitgen, Bettina Reitz, Günter Rohrbach, Richard Lawrence Ross, Albert Sharp, Mathias Schwarz, Georg Stefan Troller, Karl -Heinz Weigand and Wim Wenders.

Among the former professors of HFF include, inter alia, Wolfgang longitudinal field († 2012), Clemens Münster, Eberhard Piltz († 2011 ), Peter Przygodda († 2011), Gerd Ruge and Klaus Schreyer.

Known graduates

Graduates of the University of Television and Film Munich include Maren Ade, Franz Xaver Bogner, Peter F. Bringmann, Sven burgomaster, Jakob Claussen, Byambasuren Davaa, Doris Dorrie, Uli Edel, Klaus Eichhammer, probably the most famous German film producer Bernd Eichinger, the director of several disaster movies (including 2012) Roland Emmerich, Tom ferryman, Max Färberböck, Florian gall Berger, Dennis Gansel, Katja von Garnier, Hajo Gies, Dominik Graf, Nina Grosse, Benjamin Heisenberg, Veit Helmer, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Nico Hofmann, Sherry Hormann, Rainer Kaufmann, Mika Kaurismäki, Karl Walter Linde leaves, Caroline Link, Vivian Naefe, Uschi Reich, Thomas Riedel Heimer, Marcus H. Rose Müller, Josef Rödl, Michael Schaack, Michael Schanze, Hans- Christian Schmid, Heiner Stadler, Herman Weigel, Wim Wenders, and Sönke Wortmann Egon Werdin.

Further facilities include a Christian Becker, Christoph Biemann, Christian Ditter, Andreas Dorau, Jacob M. awakening, Frauke Finsterwalder, Sikander Goldau, Esther Gronenborn, Jörg Grünler, Benjamin Herrmann, Christoph Hochhäusler, Vanessa Jopp, Lutz Konermann, Thomas Kronthaler, Gabi Kubach, Sebastian Kutzli, Niels Laupert, Joachim Masannek, Rainer Matsutani, Sebastian Niemann, Lasse Nolte, Jobst Oetzmann, Philipp J. Pamer, Wolfram Paulus, Christopher Roth, Dorothee Schön, Marco Serafini, Peter Stauch and Tomy Wigand to the group of graduates from the Munich Film School.