Wieland Speck

Wieland Speck

Wieland Speck is a German film director, who was the coordinator of Berlinale’s Panorama section from 1992 till 2017 and since then has become the Consultant of the Berlinale Official Programme. Born in 1951, he studied German Literature, Drama and Ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He then started working on video and film projects and was a writer and publisher. In addition he has worked as an actor for several acclaimed film directors, among them David Hemmings, Robert van Ackeren, Ulrike Ottinger and Ian Pringle. In the late 1970’s he was managing director of the “Tali-Kino”, an independent art house cinema in Berlin-Kreuzberg (today’s “Moviemento”). From 1979-1981 he studied film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the director, author and producer of numerous TV and film productions. He has worked for several film institutions and events like the Filmhaus Berlin, the Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg, and the Berlin European Short Film Festival. He has also taught at universities and film institutions. Wieland Speck has been and continues to be a jury member at many international film festivals as well as curating film programmes and presenting lectures. He was a panel member of the Berlin State Film Fund (1990-1993) and the Hamburg Film Fund (1994-1998).