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
Born	1951 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Occupation	Actor, director, author and publisher
Years active	1990–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;

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	Die Venusfalle
	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

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.

External links

• Wieland Speck on IMDb
• Manfred Hermes (6 March 2003). "Die Wirtschaft verführen". - interview over history and past of LGBT cino