Konrad Wolf
Konrad Wolf · Arts & Literature
Film director of DEFA and president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
20 octobre 1925, Hechingen, Allemagne — 7 mars 1982, Berlin-Est, RDA
Hechingen, Moscou, Berlin
Konrad Wolf is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Film director of DEFA and president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
Origins and early life
Konrad Wolf was born on 20 October 1925 in Hechingen.
Work and career
His father was Friedrich Wolf — doctor, playwright, communist and, in the DEFA Foundation's own words, a German Jew — and because of that double identity the family had to flee Germany in 1933, finding refuge in Moscow. At seventeen Konrad joined the Red Army, and in 1945 he returned to his native country in the uniform of its liberators — an experience he later turned into his most personal film, I Was Nineteen (1968).
Recognition
Trained at the Moscow film school VGIK, he became the leading director of the East German DEFA studio: Stars (1959), his film about a German soldier and a Jewish deportee, won the special jury prize at Cannes, and Professor Mamlock (1961) carried his father's play about a Jewish surgeon under Nazism to the screen.
Later years
From 1965 until his death he presided over the Academy of Arts of the GDR. He died in East Berlin on 7 March 1982; the Babelsberg film university bears his name.
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Film director of DEFA and president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
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