Hilmar Hoffmann
Hilmar Hoffmann ( born August 25, 1925 in Bremen ) is a German cultural workers and cultural functionary who has worked in various sectors for a re-evaluation of high and width of culture (" culture for all " ).
Biography
At 17, Hoffmann was born on April 1, 1943 in the Nazi Party, when he made his Notabitur in Oberhausen at the Horst Wessel High School; a week after he completed his military service already in the paratroopers. In 1944 he went into Normandy in American captivity.
After the war, Hoffmann studied directing at the Folkwang Hochschule for Music and Theater in Essen and worked as an assistant director on the stages of the city of Essen.
In 1951 he was in Oberhausen the youngest director of a community college and founded in 1954, the West German Cultural Film Festival (later International Short Film Festival Oberhausen ), the 1962 platform for the Oberhausen Manifesto, in which the protagonists of the movement " Young German Film" ( including, for example, Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, Peter Schamoni others) " Dad's cinema " declared dead. 1965-1970 he was a social and cultural department of the city.
Between 1970 and 1990 he was a City Councillor in Frankfurt am Main and initiated the urban promotion of free groups in the cultural sector. The early 70s, he initiated a participation model at the Frankfurt show. Among the funded institutions was also the first municipal theater in Germany. Important to him were also institutions such as museums ( initiator of the Museum Embankment ), branch libraries and socio-cultural centers such as town houses. Due to its excellent reputation, the Social Democrat remained in office when the city government has been asked by the CDU in 1986.
From 1992 to 2001 he was president of the Goethe Institute ( Munich).
He taught film theory and cultural politics at the universities of Bochum, Frankfurt, as an honorary professor in Marburg, as a visiting professor in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In addition, he is active in the Reading Foundation in Mainz, whose leader he was five years. Meanwhile, he argues for a move away from the ideological left alignment of socio-cultural work and argues for a growing emphasis on the " sensuality " of culture. In addition, aroused his proposal sensation to ease the difficult financial situation of state museums through the sale of Archives and custody duplicates.
Beginning of October 1996, signed Hoffmann the Frankfurt Declaration for spelling reform. " Even the President of the Goethe Institute, Hilmar Hoffmann, held a boycott of the spelling reform makes sense ," it said in a report at the time of the Goethe- Institut New York. As a member of the German PEN center called the Goethe Institute CEO Hilmar Hoffmann on his colleagues to speak out in the face of unbroken rejection in large parts of the population for a redemption of the reform. Finally, Hoffmann signed in early October 2004, the Frankfurt call for spelling reform.
On behalf of the then prime minister of Hesse, Roland Koch, Hoffmann was 2001 Chairman of the Hessian Cultural Commission. He was from 1985 to 2011 Chairman of the Board at the German Film Institute - DIF / German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main. From 1990 to 2011 he was Chairman of the Policy Board of RTL (Cologne) and Hit Radio FFH.
Awards
Important publications
- Culture for all. Perspectives and models. 1979
- The Dove's book. 1982
- The film in the Third Reich. 1988
- Waiting for the Barbarians. 1989
- Culture as a form of life. 1990
- Myth Olympia. The work of Leni Riefenstahl. 1993
- The large Frankfurt. 2004
- Principle of life culture. Writings and essays. 2006
- Frankfurt strong women. 2006
- The Frankfurt Museum shore. 2009
- Frankfurt's Lord Mayor 1945-1995, A contribution to the cultural history of the city. Societäts -Verlag, Frankfurt am M < ain 2012, ISBN 978-3-942921-66-4.