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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German pronunciation: [vm vnds]; born 14 August 1945) is a German lm director, playwright, author, photographer and lm producer. Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.

Wim Wenders

Contents
1 Early life 2 Career 3 Selected exhibitions 4 Legacy and honors 5 Filmography 6 Selected bibliography 7 Quotes 8 See also 9 References 10 External links
Wim Wenders (2008) Born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders 14 August 1945 Dsseldorf, Rhine Province, Alliedoccupied Germany Occupation Film director Years active Spouse(s) Edda Kchl (196874) Lisa Kreuzer (197478) Ronee Blakley (197981) 1967present

Early life

Isabelle Weingarten (198182) Donata Wenders (1993)

Wenders was born in Dsseldorf into a traditional Awards Golden Lion Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, for The State of Things (1982) was a surgeon. Use of the Dutch name, "Wim", a Golden Palm shortened version of the baptismal name for Paris, Texas (1984) "Wilhelm/Willem", reected his mother's Dutch Cannes Film Festival provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by Grand Jury Prize the civil registration authorities in 1945 as for Faraway, So Close! (1993) "unGerman".[1] He graduated from high school in Silver Bear Jury Prize Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied for The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) medicine (196364) and philosophy (196465) in Freiburg and Dsseldorf. However, he dropped Website out of university studies and moved to Paris in www.wim-wenders.com (http://www.wimOctober 1966 to become a painter. Wenders failed wenders.com/) his entry test at France's national lm school IDHEC (now La Fmis), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist, in Montparnasse. During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to ve movies a day at the local movie theater. Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Dsseldorf ofce of United Artists. That fall, he entered the "Hochschule fr Fernsehen und Film

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Mnchen" (University of Television and Film Munich). Between 1967 and 1970 while at the "HFF", Wenders also worked as a lm critic for FilmKritik, then the Munich daily newspaper Sddeutsche Zeitung, Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel. Wenders completed several short lms before graduating from the Hochschule with a feature-length 16mm black and white lm, Summer in the City.

Career
Wenders began his career during the New German Cinema era of the late 1960s, making his feature directorial debut with Summer in the City (1970). Much of the distinctive cinematography in his movies is the result of a highly productive long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby Mller. Some of his more successful and critically acclaimed movies, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, for example, have been the result of fruitful collaborations with avant-garde authors Peter Handke and Sam Shepard. Handke's novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick was adapted for Wenders' second feature lm, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty. Handke co-wrote the script for Wings of Desire and Until the End of the World, both featuring Solveig Dommartin. Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man (2003), on American blues. He has also directed a documentary style lm on the Skladanowsky brothers, known in English as 'A Trick of Light (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113151/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7)'. The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing 'moving pictures' when several others like the Lumiere brothers and Friese-Greene and many others were doing the same. He has also directed many music videos for groups such as U2 and Talking Heads, including "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and "Sax and Violins". His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer. Wenders' book, Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written while a lm student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatised by Neil Cargill. Wenders was collaborating with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders - Visions on Film, when Porter passed away the lm remains incomplete.

Wim Wenders at Cannes (2002)

Wenders is a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation. The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aimed at nding and reconstructing world cinema lms that have been long neglected. He serves as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered lmmakers to show their work to industry professionals.[2] In 2011 he was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival,[3] a reection of his capacity to produce imaginative tributes to great works of

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art.[4] The project fell through when he insisted on lming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.[5] While promoting his 3-D dance lm, Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel Blog in December 2011 that he has already begun work on a new 3-D documentary, this one about architecture.[6] He also has said that he will only be working in the 3-D lm format from now on.[7] Wenders admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufciently capture her work on screen.[citation needed]

Selected exhibitions
2012 Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth,[8] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow 2006 Wim Wenders: Immagini dal pianeta terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy Journey to Onomichi Photos by Wim and Donata Wenders, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, images from touring exhibition, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Dark Places, curated by Joshua Decter, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California 2005 The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Through the Lens, group exhibition, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 200405 Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, rhus C, Denmark 2004 Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Australia and Japan, James Cohan Gallery, New York Between The Lines, group exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, group exhibition, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York Wim Wenders, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy Through the Lens: Eight Photographers, group exhibition, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. 2003 Wim Wenders, James Cohan Gallery, New York Wim Wenders, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich, Switzerland 200004 Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2002), Haunch of Venison, London (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Millennium Art

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Museum, Beijing, China; Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2004) 2000 Buena Vista Social Club, Rose Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California 1996 Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica Wim Wenders: Photos, in conjunction with the publication, Wim Wenders: Photos, Munich Goethe Institute (1996), Goethe Institutes worldwide 1995 Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, California 199395 Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001), touring exhibition: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (1993); Villa delle Rose, Bologna (1994); FNAC, Paris (1994); Parco, Tokyo (1994); FNAC, Berlin (1995); Villa Rufolo, Ravello (1995) 198994 Wim Wenders Photographs, touring exhibition: Galerie F. C Gundlach, Hamburg (1989); Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zrich (1990); Hochschule fr Fernsehen und Film, Munich (1991); Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (1991); Shibuya Seibu Dept. Store, Tokyo (1992); Kiyomizu 198994 Temple, Kyoto (1992); Muse de l'lyse, Lausanne (1992); Amerika Haus, Berlin (1992); Venice Biennale (1993); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (1993); Sala Parpallo Palau Dels Scala, Valencia (1994); San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian (1994) 198692 Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987), touring exhibition: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986); Encontros de Fotograa, Coimbra (1987); Palazzo della Triennale di Milano (1988); Film Society of Miami (1988); Goethe Institut, Stockholm (1988); Goethe Institut, Copenhagen (1988); Saint-YrieixLa-Perche (1990); Stdtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg (Breisgau) (1992)

Wim Wenders (2005)

Legacy and honors

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Wenders has already received many awards, including the Golden Lion for The State of Things at the Venice Film Festival (1982); the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his movie Paris, Texas; and Best Direction for Wings of Desire in the 1987 Bavarian Film Awards[9] and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he won the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Director for Faraway, So Close!.[9] In 2004, he received the Master of Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. He was awarded the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005. In 2012 his dance lm Pina was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature of the 84th Academy Awards.[10] He has been awarded honorary doctorates at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and at the Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium in 2005.

Filmography

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Year Title 1970 Summer in the City The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (UK) or The 1972 Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (USA) 1973 The Scarlet Letter 1974 Alice in the Cities 1975 The Wrong Move 1976 Kings of the Road 1977 The American Friend 1980 Lightning Over Water 1982 Hammett

German title

Summary First full length feature lm (Dedicated to The Kinks)

Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe Alice in den Stdten Falsche Bewegung Im Lauf der Zeit Der Amerikanische Freund

Adaptation of a novel by Peter Handke Adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne First part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy Second part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy, with Nastassja Kinski Third part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game Documentary about the last days of Nicholas Ray Fictional story about Dashiell Hammett, American writer; based on a novel by Joe Gores

1982 Room 666

Chambre 666

Short documentary interviews directors on the future of cinema, including Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmed at Cannes Short lm documents Wenders' disputes with Coppola during Hammett

1982 Reverse Angle 1982 The State of Things 1984 Paris, Texas 1985 Tokyo-Ga Der Himmel ber Berlin Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Stdten Stand der Dinge

Documentary about Japanese lm director Yasujir Ozu Written with Peter Handke. A guardian angel is tempted to prefer human experience over the outsider's immortality. Documentary about Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto. Music video for "Night and Day" performed by U2

1987 Wings of Desire

Notebook on Cities and 1989 Clothes 1990 Red Hot + Blue

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1991 Until the End of the World 1992 Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring

Bis ans Ende der Welt Arisha, der Br und der steinerne Ring In weiter Ferne, so nah! Sequel to Wings of Desire Partially a sequel to The State of Things Jenseits der Wolken (with Michelangelo Antonioni) Die Gebrder Skladanowsky Also known as The Brothers Skladanowsky

1993 Faraway, So Close! 1994 Lisbon Story 1995 Beyond the Clouds 1995 A Trick of Light 1997 The End of Violence 1998 Willie Nelson at the Teatro 1999 Buena Vista Social Club 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel 2001 Souljacker Part 1 2002

Documentary about Cuban musicians; made with Ry Cooder Music Video for "Souljacker Pt 1" by Eels Documentary about the Cologne rock group BAP Contributed segment "Twelve Miles to Trona" Documentary about Blues musicians

Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Viel passiert - Der Roll Film BAP-Film

2002 Ten Minutes Older 2003 The Soul of a Man 2004 Land of Plenty 2005 Don't Come Knocking 2008 Palermo Shooting 2011 Pina

Premiered Out of Competition at the Berlin Film Festival.[11]

Selected bibliography
Wenders, Wim (1984), Paris, Texas, Nrdlingen: Greno, ISBN 978-3-921568-11-8 Wenders, Wim (1986), Emotion pictures: Essays und Filmkritiken, 1968-1984, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, ISBN 978-3-88661-078-5 Wenders, Wim (1989), Emotion pictures: reections on cinema, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-15271-1 Shepard, Sam; Wenders, Wim (1991), Paris, Texas: Screenplay, New York: Ecco Press, ISBN 978-0-88001-266-9 Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (1992), The logic of images: essays and conversations, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-16517-9 Wenders, Wim; Handke, Peter (1998), Der Himmel ber Berlin: Ein Filmbuch von Wim Wenders und Peter Handke (in German), Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-02406-5

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Wenders, Wim; Wenders, Donata (2000), The heart is a sleeping Beauty: the Million Dollar Hotel - a lm book, New York: teNeues, ISBN 978-3-8238-5468-5 Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (2000), My time with Antonioni: the diary of an extraordinary experience, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-20076-4 Wenders, Wim (2001), Written in the West, New York: teNeues, ISBN 978-3-8238-5469-2 Wenders, Wim (2001), Once: pictures and stories, New York: D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, ISBN 978-1-891024-25-2 Wenders, Wim; Hofmann, Michael (2001), On lm: essays and conversations, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-20718-3 Lindbergh, Peter; Wenders, Wim (2002), Peter Lindbergh: stories, Santa Fe: Arena Editions, ISBN 978-1-892041-64-7 Steinhilber, Berthold; Wenders, Wim (2003), Ghost towns of the American West, New York: Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 978-0-8109-4508-1 Wenders, Wim; Tawada, Yoko (2007), Where Europe begins, New York: New Directions Publishers, ISBN 978-0-8112-1702-6

Quotes
"Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins." "I consider Ozu my all time grand master." "I want to make personal lms, not private lms."

See also
James Cohan Gallery

References
1. ^ Biography Wim Wenders (http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/wim_wenders_bio.htm), wim-wenders.com 2. ^ Filmaka Jury Member Wim Wenders (http://www.lmaka.com /prole_jury_favlms.php?prole_id=5684), Filmaka.com. 3. ^ http://www.german-info.com/press_shownews.php?pid=3312 4. ^ http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/03/what_wim_wenders_may_be_planni.html 5. ^ "Breaking Bayreuth" (http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/04 /breaking_bayreuth_loses_its_ne.html), Arts Journal, April 2011 6. ^ "Interview: Wim Wenders on PINA and Why 3D is the Future of Documentary" (http://blog.documentarychannel.com/post/14625054063/interview-wim-wenders-on-pina-and-why3d-is-the), DOC Channel Blog. 7. ^ "Its 3D or Bust for Pina Director Wim Wenders" (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/12/23/its3d-or-bust-for-pina-director-wim-wenders/), Wall Street Journal 8. ^ "Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" (http://mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/picturesfrom-the-surface-of-the-earth/). Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. 9. ^ a b http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf 10. ^ "Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards" (http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards /84/nominees.html). oscars.org. Retrieved 2012-01-28. 11. ^ "Berlinale 2011: First Competition Films" (http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen /alle/Alle-Detail_7188.html). Berlinale. Retrieved 2011-01-03.

External links
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Ofcial website (http://www.wim-wenders.com/) Wim Wenders (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000694/) at the Internet Movie Database Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database (http://archive.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/wenders.html) lmportal.de (http://www.lmportal.de/df/bb /Uebersicht,,,,,,,,EFC0CAA3F03B03C1E03053D50B372D46,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html) including biography, lmography and photos Wenders Bibliography (via UC Berkeley) (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Germanlmbib.html#Wenders) Wim Wenders Interview (portuguese subtitles; Flash/HTML5) (http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=mFIHnl4rmd0) Interview with Wim Wenders (in three parts; Flash/HTML5) (http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=GK0TK7XyFQ8) Interview with Wim Wenders (http://www.magazin.avinus.de/2008/02/03/klein-wendersinterview-digitale-riesenchance/) (German) CNN interview with Wim Wenders (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/02/berlin.qa/) Wim Wenders's Cinmaton - A 4 minutes portrait by Grard Courant (1982) (Flash) (http://www.gerardcourant.com/projection.php?t=c&lm=212) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wim_Wenders&oldid=562856977" Categories: 1945 births Best Director BAFTA Award winners European Film Award for Best Director winners Buena Vista Social Club English-language lm directors German expatriates in the United States German lm directors German-language lm directors German music video directors Living people Knight Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia People from Dsseldorf Recipients of the Pour le Mrite (civil class) University of Television and Film Munich alumni This page was last modied on 4 July 2013 at 17:10. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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