Film historian
Country of origin
Federal Republic of Germany

*18.02.1933 (Chodzież), †06.02.2008 (Köln)

1957-1965 Director of the Film Seminar of the University in Bonn

1970-1980 Director of the Institute for Media Research in Cologne

1971-1983 FilmCommissioner of the Evangelical church in Germany (EKD)

1981-1996 Director of the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF) in Frankfurt/M

Link: Nachruf von Karsten Visarius (German)

Current issues

41st Warsaw Film Festival 2025
Mit einem jungen neuen Team unter der Leitung von Joanna Szymańska-Szcześniak und dem Programmdirektor Bartłomiej Pulcyn startete das Warschauer Filmfestival bei seiner 41. Ausgabe in gleich acht verschiedenen Spielstätten., so Holger Twele, Miglied der Ökumenischen Jury in Warschau 2025, in seinem Bericht.
Art as an Act of Resistance
Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
Ecumenical Reception at the Berlinale
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11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
Get Together - Meeting with the 8th Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2023
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