Hilmar Hoffmann
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Hilmar Hoffmann (25 August 1925 – 2 June 2018) was a German cultural worker and cultural functionary.
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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 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.
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Awards
- 1976 - Filmband in Gold for long and outstanding achievements in German film
- 1988 - Helmut-Käutner-Preis
- 1988 - Friedrich-Stoltze-Preis
- 1990 - Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz 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
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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
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