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The Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (German: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) is the oldest and largest film school in Germany. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, as well as post-graduate studies in all fields of the process of filmmaking. In addition it is the only art school in Brandenburg, located together with the Babelsberg Film Studio in the media city Babelsberg.
Different departments have been established in order to expand the research, teaching and studies, as well as for the improvement of its national and international affiliations. Among them are the Institute for Artistic Research (Institut für künstlerische Forschung) and the Filmmusem Potsdam. With the same objective, the university also affiliated with the Erich Pommer Institute and the Institute for Occupational Research and Corporate Planning in the Media Business (Institut für Berufsforschung und Unternehmensplanung Medien).
The institution was founded with effect from 1 November 1954 as a German Academy of Film Art (Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst) at Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam-Babelsberg and in 1969 it was renamed the Film and Television Academy of the GDR. In 1985, it was named after the director Konrad Wolf, which was maintained, after the formal renaming in 1990 into Academy for Film and Television and to promotion to university in 2014.
On 8 July 2014, the conversion into the film university Babelsberg Konrad Wolf took place after 60 years of existence. 2 In addition to the university status, the spatial expansion plans also become more concrete.
Historically, the head of the University was given the title of rector, but in May 2000 this post was renamed president. The first rector of the university was Kurt Maetzig, from 1954 to 1964. He was replaced by Konrad Schwalbe, who headed the Film school until 1969. Lutz Köhlert (1969-1973), Peter Ulbrich (1973-1980), Konrad Schwalbe (1980-1986) and Lothar Bisky (1986-1990) were successors until the political change. After the reunion until 1995 the rector was Wolf-Dieter Panse. His successor and from 2000 until 2013 the first president was Dieter Wiedemann. Since 2013, the first woman to lead the Academy and since 2014 the University is the managing director of UFA Film & TV production Susanne Stürmer.
The Film University Babelsberg offers courses with film thematic. The degrees to be achieved are Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts. The courses of 2015/16 were animation, animation directing, audio visual application design, cinematography, digital media culture, script / dramaturgy, film and television production, film culture heritage, film music, film and television directing, media science, Editing, Directing, Drama, Sound, Sound for Picture, Scenography/Production Design and Scenography.
The Media Studies program is the most research-oriented course of study at the Film University and includes basic academic research and application-oriented research that reflects the artistic practice. Every year students of the course Media studies organize with Sehsüchte the largest student film festival in Europe, which takes place in April on the university campus and in Thalia Cinema at the station Babelsberg (S-Banhof Babelsberg).
In its course of studies, the Film University is the only university in the German-speaking world to explicitly represent the area of media-specific representation in its course of studies on the basis of sound theater education. 10] In addition to the participation in film and television productions, the theater students are already on stage of one of the municipal theaters during the course of a study, thanks to the long-standing cooperation with the Hans Otto Theater.
