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Wim Wenders was born in 1945 in Germany. He studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he interrupted his education and moved to Paris in 1966, where he studied painting. He returned to Germany in 1967 and entered the "Hochschule für Fernsehen and Film" (Graduate School of Film and Television), which had just been founded in Munich.
Between 1967 and 1970, he contributed to the film review "FilmKritik" and to the Munich daily newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung.", working as a free journalist.
Wim Wenders graduated from the Hochschule, with his first feature film "Summer in the City", but he really began his professional career in 1971 with his next film, "The Goalkeepers Fear of the Penalty Kick", based on the book of the same name by Peter Handke.
In 1971, in collaboration with twelve other filmmakers, he began a production and distribution company called "Filmverlag der Autoren". And, in 1974, he founded Wim Wenders Production.
In 1976, he started "Road Movies Filmproduction" in Berlin, which, since 1984, has been run exclusively by Wenders and his producer, Chris Sievernich, with whom, in 1981, he had already established "Gray City, Inc." in New York.
In 1977, he finished "The American Friend", a big international co-production which brought him to the attention of Francis Ford Coppola. In 1978, upon invitation of the later, he went to the United States to shoot Hammett. Return to Europe in 1982.
Wenders won the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival of 1982 for "The State of Things".
With the release of "Paris, Texas" in Germany, Wenders began to diverge from the Filmverlag der Autoren, deciding to end his partnership. In 1984 he became a member of the "Akademie der Künste" in Berlin.
In 1987, besides the release of his film, "Der Himmel über Berlin", winner of the prize for Best Director at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, he also published his first book -- "Written in the West", followed by many other books.
In 1989 Wim Wenders received an honorary doctor title from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
In 1991 he completed a long-time project, "Until the End of the World".
He made a documentary film on fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto." Notebook on Cities and Clothes". Further films: "Beyond the Clouds", "Far Away, So Close", "Lisbon Story" and "A Trick of the Light", "Buena Vista Social Club", "The Million Dollar Hotel", "In America".
From 1991 to 1996 he was the appointed Chairman of the European Film Academy and was subsequently elected as its president. Since 1993 he has been teaching as an honorary professor at the HFF (Academy of Film and Television) in Munich. In 1995 he received another honorary doctorat - in divinity- this time from the theological faculty of the University Freiburg Switzerland.
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ON FILM
A volume that combines Emotion Pictures, The Logic of Images, and The Act of Seeing
2001 Faber & Faber
THE HEART IS A SLEEPING BEAUTY
The Million Dollar Hotel - A Film Book, 2000;
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
The Companion Book to the Film, 1999;
WIM WENDERS:PHOTOS
1996 Goethe Institute, Munich, Edition Braus Heidelberg
MY TIME WITH ANTONIONI
The Diary of an Extraordinary Experience, 1995
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