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Ulrich Gregor
Ulrich Gregor was born in Hamburg and studied film and literature in Hamburg and Berlin. In 1954–56 he undertook a film studies course at Cinémathèque Française, Paris. He has been an active film critic since 1955. In 1963 he co-founded and became chair of the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (until 2005). From 1966 to 1972 and again since 2006 he teaches film history at the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin. He is the author of History of Cinema (with Enno Patalas, 1962, new edition 1982), and History of Cinema since 1960 (1978, new edition 1982, translated into Chinese). From 1971 to 2001 he was the director of the International Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival, a showcase of independent and experimental cinema.
He is a curator of retrospectives and festival catalogues, editor of the monograph series Kinemathek (with Erika Gregor) since 1963.