Wieland Speck
Wieland Speck ( born 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is since 1992 head of the Panorama section of the International Film Festival (Berlinale ).
Life
Bacon lived in Berlin since 1972. He studied German Literature, Theatre Studies and Anthropology at the city's Free University. Since the mid- 1970s, dedicated to bacon. Different ranges of film and video as well as author and publisher
Main topics of his work were men movement and homosexual identity. He was also seen as an actor among others in the films of David Hemmings, Robert van Ackeren, Ulrike Ottinger and Ian Pringle. As a theater director he was for several years for the Berlin OFF-OFF - cinema Tali (now Moviemento ) in Kreuzberg responsible.
His own film work began Wieland Speck various video documentaries. From 1979 to 1981, he then completed a film studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. He played in 1978 a gigolo in Marlene Dietrich 's last film Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo and was a presenter at the legendary Festival Ingenious Dilettantes in 1981 with The Deadly Doris, Gudrun Gut, DIN A test image and Einstürzende Neubauten in Berlin's Tempodrom.
He is director, screenwriter and producer of several movies and TV productions and co-founder of a short film distribution. In addition, Bacon has in various film institutions - among other things film Haus Berlin, Film Office Baden-Württemberg, European Short Film Festival Berlin - collaborated and worked as a lecturer at universities and film schools. In 1985, he led the first time in a movie directed; the homosexual East-West love story " Westerners " was his most successful film, and is at its various revivals - also under political aspect - until today far successfully on the target group of gay viewers beyond.
For the Panorama section of the International Film Festival Berlin Wieland Speck since 1982 has been working. Between 1982 and 1992 he served as assistant to the program director Manfred Salzgeber for the artistic and organizational support of the section. Wieland Speck served on the juries of several international film festivals and Board Member of the countries Filmförderung Berlin (1990-1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994-1998).
Filmography
Prizes and awards
- 2010: Order of Merit
- 2011: Nino Gennaro Award (Sicilia Queer Film Festival )