Prof. Lothar Spree
 

Personal Profile

 

* 1942

Willingen Waldeck, > Mülheim an der Ruhr
Apprenticeship Graphic Design, Fried. Krupp Essen. Diploma with scholarship for:

 

1961 - 1968

hochschule für gestaltung ulm / design academy ulm, > Visual Communication, >> Film at institut für filmgestaltung ulm(institute for film design ulm (co-founder), Diploma. First cinema movies, Festivals.

 

1968 - 1971

Student, Lecturer > University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada > Communication Design, first teaching posiitons, building the film department

 

1971 - 1972

Producer, Author, Director - USA NJ, NYNY > production of educational films USA

 

1972 - 1976

Professor for Photoelectric Arts > Ontario College of Art, Toronto Canada

 

1975

Foundation of lothar spree film production, Frankfurt Main Germany.

 

1974 - 1988

Author, director, production for ZDF television > youth program

 

1987 - 2009

Production of documentary & fictional films, Image films, media programs

 

1988

Adolf-Grimme-Award in silver

 

since 1991

Projects in cultural and artistic documentation: music, archaeology, architecture, opera, art, design…

 

1992 - 1998

Professor Mediart/Film, HfG Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe/National Academy of Design Karlsruhe & ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie / Center for Art & Media Technoloy

 

1992 - 1999

Experimental works in film and video > Film-, Video-, Digital-Technologies; new forms of film-documentation, projecs in Super16Film, Digital sound.

 

1995

Foundation of EIKK - Europäisches Institut des Kinofilms Karlsruhe/European Institute of Cinema Karlsruhe with Edgar Reitz at HfG Karlsruhe > post-graduate institute for European Educational Productions, Research and Development Institute Cinema of the Future.

 

1995 - 98

Projekt CHAMP - The Çatal Hüyük Archaeology and Media Project / Cultural Heritage Archaeology and Media Project, EU-supported Research project INFO 2000 > with HfG Karlsruhe, ZKM, University of Cambridge, Uni Karlsruhe and publishing companies. CD-ROM, DVD and Database-Productions.

 

1996 - 2003

Director EIKK Karlsruhe, project works in ZKM.

 

1998 – 2000

Project collaboration with ZKM for Film, Internet and European Research Projects

 

2000 - 2002

Professor for Film at hfg_OF Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main/Design Academy Offenbach > restructuring film department.

 

2003

Scuola Europea di Cinema Umbria di Montone, Umbria Italy > Co-founding, curriculum development, teaching Summer school, developing EU MEDIA Program projects.

 

2003 – 2008

College of Communication and Art, Tongji University Shanghai >

Prof. and Department Dean, Director of Research Institute & Setting up of Film/TV&MediaArt Department, Curriculum and Media Studios. (DAAD Long-term Professorship)


 

2008 -

Hon. Professor Film & Neue Medien Bauhaus Universität Weimar Germany

 

2009 –

D&I College of Design & Innovation, (founded May 26, 2009), in CAUP College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University Shanghai. Professor for Digital Media Design (DAAD Johann Gottfried Herder Stiftung).




 



 



 

 

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