Wolfgang H. Scholz

Wolfgang H. Scholz (born 5 October 1958) is a German painter, photographer and film director. He lives and works in Mexico City and Munich.

Life

Scholz was born and grew up in Dresden, in a family that had been dedicated to woodcraft for several generations. At the beginning of the 1980s he studied building engineering and painting / graphic arts in Dresden. He works since 1992 for different European TV-broadcasters, for instance Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and ARTE. 1994 he founded together with Meinhard Prill the film production company Sic! Film GmbH and shot his first theatrical feature film “Shadow Seeker”, a story about his childhood in Dresden. His artistic work is conceptually tied to photography, as well as multimedia installations and is basically figurative in the area of painting. Connecting elements are movement, time and space, that brought him to create multimedia performances with dancers. 2001 Scholz went to Mexico City. He is married to the Mexican dancer, choreographer and manager of the Centro Cultural "Los Talleres" Isabel Beteta De Cou in Mexico City. In 2013 he was appointed at the Saxon Academy of Arts, Germany.

Time of Crows (2014) theatrical feature film The Image Inside (2009) theatrical documentary Distant Neighbours (2003) documentary Lost Wings (1999) theatrical feature film The Real Dream (1995) documentary Shadow Seeker (1994) theatrical documentary-fiction film The Lithographer von Otto Dix (1992) documentary Kohlenlothar (1989/90) documentary Body Building (1988) documentary Dream 1 (1986) shortfilm / fiction film

Selection of awards Source:

2016 Gold Remi Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA 2015 Award (Drehbuch), Int. Filmmaker Festival, Milan, Italy 2010 Platinum Remi Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA 2004 Saxon Journalist Award (First Prize) 2000 Silver Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA 1991 International Film Festival Dresden (First Prize)