Wieland Speck

Wieland Speck is a German film director, who since 1992 has coordinated "Panorama" at the International Filmfestival Berlin (Berlinale). Panorama showcases new films by established directors, as well as debut works by up-and-coming talents.[1]

Wieland Speck
Wieland Speck in 2006
Born1951
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
OccupationActor, director, author and publisher
Years active1990–present

Biography

Since 1972, he started living in Berlin. He studied German, Theater and Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin. Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been engaged in various areas of film and video as well as author and publisher.

In the late 1970s, he was managing director of the Tali-Kino, an independent arthouse cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg (later called "Moviemento"). From 1979 to 1981 he completed a film study at the San Francisco Art Institute.[2]

Between 1982 and 1992 Speck worked with the German film director Manfred Salzgeber producing LGBT-themed films and shorts. He is the co-creator of the Teddy Award,[3] (with Manfred Salzgeber) which since 1987 was awarded to LGBT films at the Berlinale.

Openly gay,[4][5] he has lived in Berlin since 1972. Speck studied German, theater and ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 1985, he produced his first feature film Westler.[5][6]

He was a panel member of the Berlin State Film Fund (1990-1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994-1998) and from 1992 to 2017 he was head of the Panorama section of the Berlinale.[2]

In 2011 he won the Nino Gennaro Award at the first edition of Sicilia Queer filmfest.[3]

In 2015, Speck won the 20th Busan International Film Festival, Korean Cinema Award.[7]

In 2017, he became a consultant on the Berlinale official program.[8]

Filmography

As an actor;

YearTitleCharacterNotes
1978Just a GigoloManUncredited
1980How to Choose a WifeCowboy(Short)
1982Rote Liebe - WassilissaSpekulant auf der Party
1987Kismet, Kismet
1988Die Venusfalle
Sleepless NightsSchauspieler
1989The Prisoner of St. PetersburgYouth in bar
1992The true Story About Men and Women
2012Mommy is ComingHans Eberhardt

As a Director;

YearFilmOther notes
2000Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story(Director, Screenplay)
1991Among Men
Zimmer 303(Short)
1989November(Short)
1985Westler(director, screenplay, production)
1983The Sound of Fast Relief(Short)(director, screenwriter, camera, editor)
1981Bei uns zuhaus - Chez nous(Short)
David, Montgomery und ich(Short) (director, screenplay, camera, editor)

Awards

References
  1. Summers, Claude J. (2006), The queer encyclopedia of film & television, Cleis Press, p. 293, ISBN 978-1-57344-209-1
  2. "Wieland Speck". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  3. Marsala, Helga (6 February 2012). "Cinema e cultura omosex. Un premio e un film per ricordare Nino Gennaro, intellettuale maudit con la voglia di cambiare il mondo". Artribune (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  4. Kraushaar, Elmar (14 February 2012). "Die Wahrheit: DER HOMOSEXUELLE MANN". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  5. Alice A. Kuzniar (2000). The Queer German Cinema. Stanford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8047-3995-5. Among the gay male directors who merit more attention than space unfortunately allows, Wieland Speck is probably the best known--but more for his feature-length film, Westler, East of the Wall (1985), and for his programming as director of the Panorama section at the Berlin film festival, than for his shorts.
  6. IMDB
  7. "[2015 BIFF Press Release] Wieland SPECK Receives the Korean Cinema Award". www.biff.kr. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  8. Mitchell, Robert (21 August 2017). "Berlin Film Festival's Wieland Speck Takes on New Role". Variety. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
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