Wilhelm Ernst Wenders , known as Wim Wenders (born the August 14th 1945 with Düsseldorf, Land of Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia -) is a realizer, producer, scenario writer of Cinéma and German Photographe . Currently, he works mainly with the the United States.

Life and work

Wenders initially studied the Médecine and the Philosophie with Munich, Freiburg and Düsseldorf, then it returns in 1968 to the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen of Munich and off carries out like film of end of studies Summer the city . It creates in 1971 with other authors of the new German cinema the Filmverlag der Autoren (these scenario writers join to produce and distribute their films themselves). It is not satisfied any and creates in 1974 its own production company, the “ Wim Wenders produktion ”.

After its adaptations of the novels Die Angst of Tormanns beim Elfmeter of Peter Handke and DER scharlachrote Buchstabe of Nathaniel Hawthorne, he arrives to an artistic rupture with Alice in the cities ( Alice in der Städten , 1973). With the Wire of time ( Im Lauf der Zeit ) receives the price of the international criticism of the jury-FIPRESCI with Cannes. Thanks to the American Friend ( DER amerikanische Freund ), it is also made know with the the United States.

At the invitation of Francis Ford Coppola, Wenders arrives at the United States in 1977, in order to make a film on the author of whodunnits Dashiell Hammett for the production company of Coppola ( Zoetrope ). Because of conflicts in connection with the scenario and the distribution, the completion of film was seen delayed and it is only in 1982 that Hammett leaves in room. During this Wenders time also Nick' S Film - Lightning Over Water (1980) turned, a semi-documentary film over the last months of the realizer Nicholas Ray, reached of a cancer.

Its film DER Stand der Dinge (1982) speaks about the difficulties of surmounting at the time of the realization of films, it milked there besides many the problems which it even encountered to him during the turning of Hammett .

The same year, Wenders puts in scene a Play - its single to date - at the time of the Festival of Salzburg: Über die Dörfer of Peter Handke (with inter alia Rüdiger Vogler, Libgart Schwarz, Martin Schwab, Karin Baal; Decorations: Jean-Paul Chambas; Costumes: Domenika Kaesdorf, Music: Jürgen Knieper).

In 1984 leaves the film Paris, Texas (adapted novel of Sam Shepard) which obtains the same year the Palme of Gold to the Cannes festival. It is only in 1985, after a painful polemic with the production company on the rights of hiring, business which went until front the courts, that the film is finally played in the German rooms. It is, beside the Ailes of the desire ( Der Himmel über Berlin , 1987), one of greatest business successes of Wenders.

Wenders begins in 1989 an ambitious project of science fiction with the film Until the end of the world ( (a) years Ende der Welt ). The film was already a project since 1977 and was completed after one year and half of turning in 1991. The work of origin lasted 280 minutes and was reduced for its exit into the room at 180 minutes and even 158 minutes for the United States. The film accepted only criticisms moderate.

Following fims, So far, so near ( In weiter Ferne, so Nah! , 1993), Lisbon Story (1994), Am Ende der Gewalt (1997) and The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), also did not enable him to join again only partly with its last success. Its documentary on the music held more an great attention, for example Willie Nelson At the Teatro (1998), Buena Vista Social Club (1999) oder Viel passiert - DER BAP-Film (2002).

Since 2003, Wim Wenders teaches with the Hochschule für Bildende Künste of Hamburg. It becomes in 2006 the first realizer of cinema decorated with the order For the Merit.

Wenders lives now with the photographer Donata Schmidt with whom it celebrated its sixth marriage. The realizer was married before it with the actresses Edda Köchl (1968-1974), LISA Kreuzer (1974-1978), Ronee Blakley (1979-1981), Isabelle Weingarten (1981-1982) and Solveig Dommartin (1988-1993).

Wim Wenders photographer

Wim Wenders is not only the recognized scenario writer that one knows, he is also - what one knows less - photographer. At the beginning, it photographs for him, to satisfy its passion of the image, which does not touch only the animated image of its films. He then does not think of showing his images carried out of 24 X 36 by means of a “Leica” who never leaves it. They concern its private sphere and arise only from the personal pleasure.

During the summer 1983, one conceals his camera to him. By leaving the Japan, where it had just carried out documentary the Tokyo-Ga , on the scenario writer Yasujiro Ozu, it acquires of an apparatus means-format “Plaubel” with an objective of 90mm (correspondent to an objective of 45mm in small size and close to that which it uses in his films). With its return of Tokyo, provided with this material, which is appropriate perfectly for its glance - “It seems to me, says it, which it is the objective nearest to the human eye, which does not deform the vision” - Wenders undertakes a voyage of deux-trois month, during which it traverses length into broad the American West, in preparation of its film Paris, Texas . It had taken with him its apparatus for its personal pleasure, and very quickly, while photographing these landscapes, this light, it realized that it was another manner of preparing its film, another form of “research”, not as well to find the sites of turning as to tame the light of the West: I had never turned in these landscapes and I thus hoped to sharpen my capacity of comprehension and my sensitivity towards this light and these landscapes through the photographie

Catalog of films

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