Wieland Speck
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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]
Between 1982 to 1992 Speck worked with the German film director Manfred Salzgeber producing LGBT-themed films and shorts.
Openly gay,[2] 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.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Summers, Claude J. (2006), The queer encyclopedia of film & television, Cleis Press, p. 293, ISBN 9781573442091, http://books.google.com/books?id=yrgUAQAAIAAJ
- ^ Alice A. Kuzniar (2000). The Queer German Cinema. Stanford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780804739955. http://books.google.com/books?id=Di3JOjU-qtQC&lpg=PA172&dq=%22Wieland%20Speck%22%20gay&lr=&as_brr=3&pg=PA188. "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."
- ^ IMDB
[edit] External links
- Wieland Speck at the Internet Movie Database
- Manfred Hermes (6 March 2003). "Die Wirtschaft verführen". http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archiv&dig=2003/02/06/a0229. - interview over history and past of LGBT cino
