Lawyer and journalist
Country of origin
Switzerland

*1903 Lucerne, † 14.4.1985 Lucerne

Studied law; 1929 editor in Berlin; 1934 return to Switzerland

1947 founder of the "Swiss Protestant Film and Radio Association

1950 Editor-in-Chief of "Film and Radio" (1948-1970)

1959-1970 INTERFILM President

since 1971 Honorary President of INTERFILM

1974 President of the "International Association for Film and Television Industry

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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