Born February 1, 1947 in Kronberg am Taunus. Wolfgang Richter works as an independent filmmaker and producer, was a founding member of the German Documentary Association (AG Dok), is a member of the Association of German Film Critics and of the German Film Academy.Wolfgang Richter founded the production companies docfilm Karnick & Richter OHG (together with his Hannes Karnick) in 1972 and in 2012 the docMovie GmbH.In forty years docfilm has realized almost a hundred television documentaries, the majority of which were made for public television broadcasters (ARTE, ZDF, WDR, SWR, SFB, BR und Radio Bremen) on political,cultural and social topics. In addition a number of documentaries with an emphasis on historical themes were produced for cinema and given a successful reception by the audience and the press. Such films were „Martin Niemöller – The Man Who Defied Hitler?“ (1985), „Radio Star - The AFN Story“ (1994), „Nazi Doctors“, (2009).Wolfgang Richter‘s films have been supported by the Federal Ministry of Culture, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, the Film Funding Institution in Hamburg (FF- HSH), the Film Funding Institution in Hessen (HessenInvest) and the Cultural film Funding Institution in Hessen (Hessische Filmförderung).Richter‘s films have received invitations and prizes from numerous international film festivals.
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