Wieland Speck

Since 1972, he started living in Berlin. He studied German, Theater and Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin. Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been engaged in various areas of film and video as well as author and publisher.

In the late 1970s, he was managing director of the Tali-Kino, an independent arthouse cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg (later called "Moviemento"). From 1979 to 1981 he completed a film study at the San Francisco Art Institute.^[2]

Between 1982 and 1992 Speck worked with the German film director Manfred Salzgeber producing LGBT-themed films and shorts. He is the co-creator of the Teddy Award,^[3] (with Manfred Salzgeber) which since 1987 was awarded to LGBT films at the Berlinale.

Openly gay,^[4][5] he has lived in Berlin since 1972. Speck studied German, theater and ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 1985, he produced his first feature film Westler.^[5][6]

He was a panel member of the Berlin State Film Fund (1990–1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994–1998) and from 1992 to 2017 he was head of the Panorama section of the Berlinale.^[2]

In 2011 he won the Nino Gennaro Award at the first edition of Sicilia Queer filmfest.^[3]

In 2015, Speck won the 20th Busan International Film Festival, Korean Cinema Award.^[7]

In 2017, he became a consultant on the Berlinale official program.^[8]

As an actor;

As a Director;