Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujica ( born 1951 in Timişoara, Romania) is a Romanian writer, director and screenwriter. He lives in Germany since 1981 and since 2001 has been professor of film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe.
Life and work
Ujica studied literature in Timisoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. In 1968 he published at intervals prose, verse and essays. Likewise, he translated into Romanian texts and poems of the action group Banat.
After a detour via the secondary discourse he took the decision in 1990 to make films. In collaboration with Harun Farocki " video of a Revolution ," a film that has become a reference title on the relationship between political power and media in Europe at the end of the Cold War was. His next work, "Out of the Present ", which tells the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who spent ten months aboard the Mir space station, while on earth, the Soviet Union disappeared, became classics of cinema history as " 2001: A Space Odyssey "or " Solaris " compared and is now considered one of the non-fiction cult films of the nineties. His work " Unknown Quantity" shows the staging of two conversations between Paul Virilio and Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexijewitsch, author of the book " Chernobyl. Chronicle of the Future ", the basic witnesses Protocol on the transformation of history into disaster. With " Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceauşescu " Andrei Ujica was invited in 2010 to the 63rd International Film Festival in Cannes.
Ujica is since 2001 professor of film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe since 2002 and founding director of the Film Institute at the Center for Art and Media Technology.