Hilmar Hoffmann is an German cultural worker and cultural functionary.

Biography

Hoffmann studied directing at the Folkwang Hochschule for Music and Theater in Essen and worked as assistant director. Between 1970 and 1990 he was a City Councillor in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

 am Main, and initiated the promotion of free groups in urban culture. From 1993 to 2001 he was president of the Goethe-Institut eV (Munich). He taught film theory and cultural politics at the Universities of Bochum, Frankfurt, as a visiting professor in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Awards

• 1976 - Filmband in Gold for long and outstanding achievements in German film
• 1988 - Helmut-Käutner-Preis
• 1988 - Friedrich-Stoltze-Preis
• 1990 - Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz
  Bundesverdienstkreuz
  The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has existed since 7 September 1951, and between 3,000 and 5,200 awards are given every year across all classes...
  
   with star
• 1997 - Honorary Doctorate of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• 2002 - Das Glas der Vernunft
• 2003 - Waldemar von Knöringen Prize of the Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie
• 2007 - Verdienstorden des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Key Publications

• Kultur für alle. Perspektiven und Modelle. 1979
• Das Taubenbuch. 1982
• Warten auf die Barbaren. 1989
• Kultur als Lebensform. 1990
• Die großen Frankfurter. 2004
• Lebensprinzip Kultur. 2006
• Frankfurts starke Frauen. 2006

External links

• Hilmar Hoffmann in the portal film
• Full Biography Hilmar Hoffmann

Einzelnachweise

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