Mr Kosslick, will begin in a few days, your last Berlinale, as the festival Director. How do you remember your very first 2002?
that’s pretty courageous what I had begun to trust me since. Basically, I only had half a year of time to the Festival to prepare. I didn’t know how to organize it. The other conditions than it is today. My first and only visit to the office, in the office, I was in the morning to eleven would you Like to have asked: a Whiskey?
not any more. What did you change?
Everything. It should be more transparent, less hierarchical and, above all, funny. And the Fanfare.
you mean the music that had ushered in until then, the Festival.
fanfares sound according to Roman sandals film. The music and the Trailer should prepare emotionally to an experience. Uli M. Schueppel and Angelika Margull have created for us a sparkling star rain ball, not even 60 seconds long-one-player that is rated in the children’s film section “Generation,” often as the best short film.
Had you thought of something Special for the opening?
Corinna Harfouch as an artist from the former East, and Michael Ballhaus as a filmmaker from the West should lead the evening and, thus, symbolizing that the Berlinale still connects the English-German. Michael had to cancel, and Hanns Zischler. Then everything went kaplunk, kaboom: Chancellor Schröder sat in the front, I worked in row 20 behind the Stars, and nothing. The sheets with the prompts were wrong sorted. The poor Hanns Zischler struck boldly by the group. Every Time Corinna Harfouch went to the microphone, whistle it had to be kept according to the ears. As we found out later, she had sequins Metal of her dress, which led to interference.
Dieter Kosslick
Dieter Kosslick, 70, is on 7. February his last Berlinale. It is his 18. Film festival, he has contributed to a lot of charm, new sections such as the “perspective German cinema”, or the young people’s platform “Berlinale Talents”. Due to his previous position as head of the film promotion in North Rhine-Westphalia, Kosslick was already networked well, he’s a first-name with Stars and starlets. “Our man on the red carpet”, “time” him. He grew up in the vicinity of Pforzheim, Germany, he studied in Munich and worked from the late 70s in Hamburg’s Senate Chancellery. In the Hanseatic city of his professional relationship with the film industry began. In 1983, he was managing Director of the Hamburg film office.
In Berlin all know him as the man with the red scarf. As he receives in his new office at the Potsdamer Platz, he wears a green scarf. With his wife, the producer Wilma resin nice, and his son, he lives in the Hansa district.
you are then stood up.
I don’t have it anymore, I’m over the rows of chairs to the front of the race, and I improvised in my school English is a 45 minutes long speech. Band-in-chief Wolfgang Niedecken waited in the orchestra pit, with BAP, and later said: I had to stare at a three quarter of an hour on the butt of Mr Kosslick.
The next Morning they were glad it was all over.
at five o’clock I was in bed by eight, I could no longer stand up. The Stress had tightened the muscles, I had to call an ambulance to the Hotel. Has anyone seen how he went to the Hyatt, but he never came easy to me. An hour later, the backup doctor stood in my room, apologized, because in the Lobby in front of him a festival guest was passed out and he had to provide First aid. He just said: Sorry, first come, first serve basis.
Today, you can laugh about it.
you Know, with the Berlinale, the people connect since then that it’s fun to go there. I have not lost my good mood, this is me after the 18 years of Mega-Stress, disasters, and depression is really important.
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you suffered from depression?
Not in the clinical sense. But you have to think of it, how you negotiate for months, in order for Jude Law, Renée Zellweger and Nicole Kidman at the opening
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… and three hours before the Premiere of the producer sitting in on the press conference and begins with the words, “The Berlinale and Dieter Kosslick are the greatest festival in the world.” Because I knew, in the second half of the sentence he will say that the Stars are in the short term, prevents. He said he had provided each of the 250 000 dollars for a half-hour on the red carpet. Well, that was not a Depression, but a disaster. I drove up in the limo at the Berlinale Palace, thousands of Fans and photographers, I got out of the car and said: “Morituri te salutant!” The gladiators Nero called out: The moribund salute you. In this Situation, there were luckily not.
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