Wieland Speck
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Wieland Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau 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]
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;
| Year | Title | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Just a Gigolo | Man | Uncredited |
| 1980 | How to Choose a Wife | Cowboy | (Short) |
| 1982 | Rote Liebe – Wassilissa | Spekulant auf der Party | |
| 1987 | Kismet, Kismet | ||
| 1988 | Template:Ill | ||
| Sleepless Nights | Schauspieler | ||
| 1989 | The Prisoner of St. Petersburg | Youth in bar | |
| 1992 | The True Story About Men and Women | ||
| 2012 | Mommy is Coming | Hans Eberhardt |
As a Director;
| Year | Film | Other notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (Director, Screenplay) |
| 1991 | Among Men | |
| Zimmer 303 | (Short) | |
| 1989 | November | (Short) |
| 1985 | Westler | (director, screenplay, production) |
| 1983 | The Sound of Fast Relief | (Short) (director, screenwriter, camera, editor) |
| 1981 | Bei uns zuhaus – Chez nous | (Short) |
| David, Montgomery und ich | (Short) (director, screenplay, camera, editor) |
Awards
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit[4]
- 2011: Nino Gennaro Award ( Sicilia Queer filmfest )[3]
- 2019: Berlinale Camera
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External links
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- 1951 births
- German gay actors
- German gay writers
- Living people
- Film people from Berlin
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin
- Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau
- German film actors
- German film directors
- German male screenwriters
- German LGBTQ screenwriters
- German LGBTQ film directors
- Gay screenwriters
- 20th-century German LGBTQ people
- 21st-century German LGBTQ people