Filmhaus Nürnberg

Filmhaus Nürnberg

Filmhaus Nürnberg

Konrad Wolf

* 1925 Hechingen, Deutschland | † 1982

Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) is considered one of the most important directors of German film after the Second World War. Raised in Württemberg, the son of the writer Friedrich Wolf spent his youth in exile in Moscow and returned as a soldier of the Red Army. In his adopted country the committed director was able to realize a total of 15 movies for the DEFA, the state film company of the GDR. PROFESSOR MAMLOCK (1961), THE DIVIDED HEAVEN (1964), I WAS NINETEEN (1968) and SOLO SUNNY (1980) also helped him to achieve international fame. Konrad Wolf could not complete BUSCH SINGT (1982), a six-part documentary about the communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. The theme of the film, the political and artistic development of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was also reflected in other works. Wolf maintained an ongoing dialogue with history in his films, in which he raised questions of national identity and consciousness after 1945. Practically from the very beginning, his cinematic oeuvre has been determined by the attempt to constantly redefine himself in relation to history and society. He also reflected on the difficult relationship between artist and society in the field of tension between subversion and adaptation, which was his own. Like many artists in the GDR who were thoroughly loyal to "their" state, Konrad Wolf was not spared painful collisions with the SED cultural bureaucracy, although he himself held important positions in this apparatus for a long time, including as long-standing president of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1965-1982).

Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) is considered one of the most important directors of German film after the Second World War. Raised in Württemberg, the son of the writer Friedrich Wolf spent his youth in exile in Moscow and returned as a soldier of the Red Army. In his adopted country the committed director was able to realize a total of 15 movies for the DEFA, the state film company of the GDR. PROFESSOR MAMLOCK (1961), THE DIVIDED HEAVEN (1964), I WAS NINETEEN (1968) and SOLO SUNNY (1980) also helped him to achieve international fame. Konrad Wolf could not complete BUSCH SINGT (1982), a six-part documentary about the communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. The theme of the film, the political and artistic development of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was also reflected in other works. Wolf maintained an ongoing dialogue with history in his films, in which he raised questions of national identity and consciousness after 1945. Practically from the very beginning, his cinematic oeuvre has been determined by the attempt to constantly redefine himself in relation to history and society. He also reflected on the difficult relationship between artist and society in the field of tension between subversion and adaptation, which was his own. Like many artists in the GDR who were thoroughly loyal to "their" state, Konrad Wolf was not spared painful collisions with the SED cultural bureaucracy, although he himself held important positions in this apparatus for a long time, including as long-standing president of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1965-1982).

Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) is considered one of the most important directors of German film after the Second World War. Raised in Württemberg, the son of the writer Friedrich Wolf spent his youth in exile in Moscow and returned as a soldier of the Red Army. In his adopted country the committed director was able to realize a total of 15 movies for the DEFA, the state film company of the GDR. PROFESSOR MAMLOCK (1961), THE DIVIDED HEAVEN (1964), I WAS NINETEEN (1968) and SOLO SUNNY (1980) also helped him to achieve international fame. Konrad Wolf could not complete BUSCH SINGT (1982), a six-part documentary about the communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. The theme of the film, the political and artistic development of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was also reflected in other works. Wolf maintained an ongoing dialogue with history in his films, in which he raised questions of national identity and consciousness after 1945. Practically from the very beginning, his cinematic oeuvre has been determined by the attempt to constantly redefine himself in relation to history and society. He also reflected on the difficult relationship between artist and society in the field of tension between subversion and adaptation, which was his own. Like many artists in the GDR who were thoroughly loyal to "their" state, Konrad Wolf was not spared painful collisions with the SED cultural bureaucracy, although he himself held important positions in this apparatus for a long time, including as long-standing president of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1965-1982).

Konrad Wolf (1925-1982) is considered one of the most important directors of German film after the Second World War. Raised in Württemberg, the son of the writer Friedrich Wolf spent his youth in exile in Moscow and returned as a soldier of the Red Army. In his adopted country the committed director was able to realize a total of 15 movies for the DEFA, the state film company of the GDR. PROFESSOR MAMLOCK (1961), THE DIVIDED HEAVEN (1964), I WAS NINETEEN (1968) and SOLO SUNNY (1980) also helped him to achieve international fame. Konrad Wolf could not complete BUSCH SINGT (1982), a six-part documentary about the communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. The theme of the film, the political and artistic development of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was also reflected in other works. Wolf maintained an ongoing dialogue with history in his films, in which he raised questions of national identity and consciousness after 1945. Practically from the very beginning, his cinematic oeuvre has been determined by the attempt to constantly redefine himself in relation to history and society. He also reflected on the difficult relationship between artist and society in the field of tension between subversion and adaptation, which was his own. Like many artists in the GDR who were thoroughly loyal to "their" state, Konrad Wolf was not spared painful collisions with the SED cultural bureaucracy, although he himself held important positions in this apparatus for a long time, including as long-standing president of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin (1965-1982).

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