Alfred Bauer was the Berlinale’s first festival director from its launch in 1951 until 1976.
The Berlinale has been forced to suspend the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize following revelations in German weekly newspaper Die Zeit suggesting the festival’s first director had been ”a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi film bureaucracy” during the Third Reich.
”In view of these new findings, the Berlinale will suspend the ‘Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize’ with immediate effect,” the festival announced on its website only hours after the programme press conference.
”The festival had previously been unaware of Alfred Bauer’s prominent position in National Socialism,...
The Berlinale has been forced to suspend the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize following revelations in German weekly newspaper Die Zeit suggesting the festival’s first director had been ”a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi film bureaucracy” during the Third Reich.
”In view of these new findings, the Berlinale will suspend the ‘Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize’ with immediate effect,” the festival announced on its website only hours after the programme press conference.
”The festival had previously been unaware of Alfred Bauer’s prominent position in National Socialism,...
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