Peter Krieg

Peter Krieg (born August 27 1947) is a documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. Born in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. He studied business and economy at Hamburg University and film at the German Film & TV Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. Among his best known films are:
* "Bottle Babies" (1975)
* "Seeds of Health" (1976)
* "Foster Children" (1979)
* "September Wheat (1980)
* "The Pack-Ice Syndrome" (1982)
* "Report from a Deserted Planet" (1984)
* "Father's Land" (1986)
* "The Soul of Money" (1987)
* "Machine Dreams" (1988)
* "Suspicious Minds" (1991)
* "Addio Africa?" (1993).

For "September Wheat" Krieg received the German Film Award and the Adolf-Grimme-Prize. Many of his films were internationally distributed. He also produced documentary films of other filmmakers, like for Egyptian/German A'Wahed Askar.

Biography

Peter Krieg initiated and founded the OEKOMEDIA Institute and Festival for Ecological Media (Freiburg, 1982-2005), as well as the interActiva Festival for Interactive Media (Cologne/Babelsberg 1991-1995). He temporarily headed the design team of the HTC digital film production center at Babelsberg Film Studios, and was executive producer for several exhihibion and theme park attraction films(Expo 2000, Space Center Bremen, Nuerburgring Attraction Center).In the late 1980s, Krieg became interested in Second Order Cybernetics and Radical Constructivism and edited a book honouring the 80th birthday of Heinz von Foerster ("Das Auge des Betrachters").Since 1999 he promotes as business angel Pile Systems Inc, a software company developing a new "relationist" approach to data. Peter Krieg, who today calls himself a "68-leftist-turned-libertarian", has 2 children and currently lives in Berlin.

References

Sources

Ian Aitken (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, Routledge 2006 [http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/documentary/azentries.html#k]