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Rüdiger Suchsland, director, film critic, Berlin
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Rüdiger Suchsland

  • Director
  • film critic
Busy until: 31st December 2046
Born 1968 (55 Years)

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    About Rüdiger Suchsland

    Rüdiger Suchsland
    Journalist, author, director, cultural activist

    Studied history, philosophy and politics. Freelance journalist and critic for print, radio and internet. He also moderates, teaches and occasionally contributes to books.
    Since 2013 also active as a film director and writer.

    Thematic focus: Film, theory, non-fiction reviews, pop culture and zeitgeist topics.

    Work for various film festivals.

    Participation in international and national film juries.

    VDFK (Association of German Film Critics), in changing functions on the board.

    Various text publications and three films as director.

    Further information:

    imdb:
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837086/

    Wikipedia:
    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger_Suchsland

    Known for

    Non-fictional movies in other activities

    YearTitleGenreDirectorProducerComment
    2017Hitlers Hollywood - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Propaganda 1933-45Documentary FeatureRüdiger SuchslandLOOKSfilmscreenwriter
    2014Von Caligari zu Hitler - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen 1918-1933Documentary FeatureRüdiger SuchslandLOOKSfilmscreenwriter
    2013Caligari - wie der Horror ins Kino kamDocumentary, arte, ZDF [de]Rüdiger SuchslandLOOKSfilmscreenwriter

    Film awards

    YearFilmAwardCategory 
    2018Hitlers Hollywood - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Propaganda 1933-45Jerusalem Film Festival [il]The Jewish ExperienceNominated
    2015Von Caligari zu Hitler - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen 1918-1933DOK.Fest MünchenDOK.panoramaNominated
    2014Von Caligari zu Hitler - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen 1918-1933IDFA - Intl. Documentary Festival [nl]Best of FestsNominated
    2014Von Caligari zu Hitler - Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen 1918-1933Int. Filmfestspiele Venedig [it]Nominated

    Awards

    YearAward
    20182018 FEST International Filmfestival Belgrad, Best Film Frontiers Selection for "Hitlers Hollywood"

    Basic data

    NationalityGerman
    LanguagesEnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
    Special skillsJournalist, author, director, cultural activist.

    Studied history, philosophy and politics. Before that 3 semesters of law. Since then I have been working as a freelance journalist and critic for print, radio and internet. In addition, I do moderations, teaching assignments and occasional book contributions.
    My work focuses on film, theory, non-fiction reviews, pop culture and zeitgeist topics. Since 1997 editor at the internet magazine artechock. Since 1998 work for various film festivals, participation in international and national film juries; since 2005 curator (selection committee) of the film festivals Mannheim-Heidelberg (until 2019) and Ludwigshafen. Since 2004 in changing functions on the board of the VDFK (Association of German Film Critics).
    Since 2013 I do occasionally switch sides for some months to write and direct so far three documentaries on film history, which have been shown and sold worldwide.
    EducationStudies: History, philosophy and politics. Previously 3 semesters of law. MA degree (grade: 1.3) with a thesis on "Cultural Criticism and Cultural Pessimism in the Late German Empire (1910-1918)"; one year of postgraduate studies in International Politics (grade: 1.0); during the studies, stays abroad in the USA and Tanzania.
    Further referencesPublications (selection; all titles in German language):
    - "Signs and Wonders : The Cinema of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-Wai. Schüren 2008 (together with Josef Schnelle)


    - "Fashion and Melancholy. Superficial, out of depth: the liberal ironist Sofia Coppola finds the general in the very subjective", in: Karin Nietzschmann/Andreas Hamburger (eds.): "Sofia Coppola: Hope and Hopelessness in Closed Worlds" (In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory) Gießen 2019.

    - The Double Director. Between sex and tension: filmmaker François Ozon and his film L'Amant double (2017); in: Timo Storck/Andreas Hamburger (eds.): "François Ozon: Deception and Subjective Truth"; (In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory) Gießen 2018

    - "Without a Net and a Double Bottom. Artists in the circus of reality: on the current state of film criticism." In: Harald Mühlbeyer, Bernd Zywietz (eds.): "A matter of opinion: on current German film"; Schüren, Marburg 2013.

    - "Film as a Seismograph of Society. Themes and tendencies in current Turkish cinema", in Udo Steinbach ed.: Länderbericht Türkei, Bonn 2012.

    - "The noughties: between stagnation and innovation. German Film in the New Millennium". Schüren, Marburg 2012 (Kerstin Krieg (ed.)).

    - "The PR Society Eats Its Critics. On Conditions and Possibilities of Contemporary Film Criticism"; in: "Lexikon des Internationalen Films. Filmjahr 2007" Schüren, Marburg 2008
    Immediate working areaBerlin
    1st residence (federal state or country)Germany - Berlin
    Associations