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24-446: Initiators of the festival were Heinz Badewitz and Uwe Brandner , who were also members of the Hof "New Jazz Group", together with the artist Werner Weinelt, who later on relocated his art gallery to the pub "Galeriehaus" in Hof. Badewitz, festival director until his death in 2016, and Brandner, had moved to Munich in 1963 where they made short films together. However, they had problems to find

48-578: A cinema for their film presentations in Munich. Without further ado, Badewitz, who was born in Hof and knew the local cinema operators quite well, and Brandner decided to stage their films in the small town in Upper Franconia. Thus, a Hof short film festival came into existence in 1967 with an overall program duration of not more than 2,5 hours. In 1968, Badewitz was invited to take part in the German competition of

72-528: A city in 1901, and they incorporated the towns of Sterkrade and Osterfeld in 1929. The Ruhrchemie AG synthetic oil plant ("Oberhausen-Holten" or "Sterkrade/Holten") was a bombing target of the oil campaign of World War II , and the US forces reached the plant by 4 April 1945. In 1973, Thyssen AG employed 14,000 people in Oberhausen in the steel industry, but ten years later the number had fallen to 6,000. In 1954

96-525: A team of actors, directors and producers play against a team of eleven players from the festival organisation and festival supporters. The pandemic situation made it necessary to plan a hybrid festival, so that all films were also available online through the HoF-On-Demand streaming platform, restricted to Germany. With respect to reduced admission capacities, four additional venues were used for theatrical screenings. The hybrid format with streaming of most of

120-484: Is Daniel Schranz of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows: The Oberhausen city council governs the city alongside the mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: Oberhausen

144-599: Is a wider range than in Hof. Hof has been and still is the festival of a radical 68er and his allies who have done more for the German movie than the Berlinale, the Munich, Oberhausen and Mannheim festivals all together. Oberhausen Oberhausen ( / ˈ oʊ b ər h aʊ z ən / , German: [ˈoːbɐhaʊzn̩] ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area , Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( c. 13 km or 8 mi). The city hosts

168-611: Is held in March every year in Oberhausen - attracting fans from around the world. Oberhausen is twinned with: Emscher The Emscher ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛmʃɐ] ) is a river, a tributary of the Rhine , that flows through the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. Its overall length is 83 kilometres (52 mi) with a mean outflow near

192-937: Is home to Regionalliga West football team Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , who play at the Niederrheinstadion situated on the banks of the Rhine–Herne Canal . The city had a professional ice hockey team between 1997 and 2007, the Revierlöwen Oberhausen . The team initially played at the Arena Oberhausen when playing in the top-flight Deutsche Eishockey Liga but later moved to the Emscher-Lippe-Halle in Gelsenkirchen following financial woes. The Rudolf Weber-Arena has hosted many international indoor sporting events including MMA event UFC 122 in 2010 and

216-724: The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage . Oberhausen was named for its 1847 railway station which had taken its name from the Oberhausen Castle . The new borough was formed in 1862 following inflow of people for the local coal mines and steel mills. Awarded town rights in 1874, Oberhausen absorbed several neighbouring boroughs including Alstaden , parts of Styrum and Dümpten in 1910. Oberhausen became

240-563: The Oberhausen short film festival with his 2nd short film. The scandal surrounding Hellmuth Costard 's contribution film "Besonders Wertvoll" ("Especially Worthwhile") was to lead the film makers to Hof, since they had withdrawn their works from the Oberhausen festival in protest – the starting signal for the 2nd Hof International Film Festival in 1968. Initially, the "Hofer Filmtage" were a mere audience-focused festival without any kind of competitions or awards. The festival rapidly developed into

264-534: The PDC Unibet European Championship of darts in 2020. The city has established itself as a popular destination for professional wrestling in Germany, with Essen -based promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) regularly running shows in Oberhausen's Turbinenhalle . wXw's 16 Carat Gold Tournament is considered one of the most prestigious independent wrestling tournaments in the world and

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288-452: The US, Australia and New Zealand, only to mention a few, are being shown. Out of 2,000-2,500 submissions, a selection of about 80 feature and documentary films as well as about 50 short films sum up to a total of about 130 approved program movies. In general, short films are screened together with longer films. Since the first festival in 1967, many directors and actors have been present at the festival in person, gladly answering questions from

312-427: The artist is present at the festival in person, taking part in several discussion panels. Previous retrospectives: Hof is when beer bottles are plopping as soon as the lights go out in the cinema auditorium. Hof is when the festival director is moderating a discussion panel in his Snoopy jumper and the premiere audience are partying at the bratwurst stand. Hof is when a short film is shown prior to every feature film and

336-409: The audience or taking part in the many discussion panels around the festival. Many of the film makers and actors have sustainably succeeded in the domestic and international film industry after their first appearance in Hof. These include: Every year, a retrospective is dedicated to exceptional movie directors. The festival program features a section of the respective director's lifework. Traditionally,

360-527: The city began hosting the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , and the 1982 Deutscher Filmpreis was awarded to a group that wrote the Oberhausen Manifesto . Population development since 1862: The age breakdown of the population (2013) is: There were 12.5% non-Germans living in Oberhausen, as of 2014. The unemployment rate is 10.4% (Jul 2020). Migrant communities in Oberhausen as of 31 December 2017: The current mayor of Oberhausen

384-540: The directors are staging a four-man backfield defence at the soccer game in the urban park. In the first place, however, Hof is famous for having provided a showcase for non-mainstream German movies for more than 50 years, strictly as part of the main program and not as we know it from the Munich or the Berlinale festival as separate formats. Hof still is the showcase of the German movie. Behind Berlin, but ahead of Munich. Even as an established festival, Hof hasn't lost its provincial yet cosmopolitan appeal. Nowhere else there

408-686: The film business. He also fathered the HoF RENDEZVOUS, a format that features presentations of films from the previous festival throughout the following year. From 2018-2020, a cooperation with the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary took place presenting the European Film Promotion's Future Frames showcase. A traditional side event of the festival is the soccer game FC Filmwelt Hof vs. FC Hofer Filmtage that takes place on each year's festival Saturday. Every year

432-424: The films during the physical edition of the festival and the following week was continued in 2021 and 2022. The festival covers the almost full spectrum of non-mainstream movies, the main focus being on films of German origin. Especially debut works from German film schools account for a large part of the program. However, the festival provides a showcase for non-domestic productions, too. Movies from all over Europe,

456-656: The horror movie Nightmare on Elm Street with the film figure Freddy Krueger has its world premiere at the International Hof Film Festival. Apart from that, director George A. Romero presents the world premiere of his horror movie Zombie – Dawn of the Dead at the filmfestival in Northern Bavaria. During the preparations for the 50th anniversary festival in 2016, Heinz Badewitz passed away completely unexpectedly. The festival, however, took place as usual in

480-432: The last week of October. It was organized by the festival team and many highly motivated volunteers. Curators of the film program were Linda Söffker , Alfred Holighaus and Thorsten Schaumann . Since the 51st International Hof Film Festival in 2017, Thorsten Schaumann has been the artistic director of the event. He initiated the format of HoF PLUS that accompanies the festival with panel discussions about current issues of

504-488: The main annual meeting point for the "Jungfilmer", the makers of the New German Cinema . Many upcoming directors present their debut films in Hof and maintain friendly connections with the festival for years. During the 25th anniversary festival in 1991, Wim Wenders shapes the term of "Hof – Home of Films". The motto of the festival originates from Heinz Badewitz himself: "We don't need stars – we create them." In 1984,

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528-579: The mouth into the lower Rhine of 16 m /s (570 cu ft/s). The Emscher has its wellspring in Holzwickede , east of the city of Dortmund . Towns along the Emscher are Dortmund, Castrop-Rauxel, Herne, Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Bottrop, Oberhausen and Dinslaken, where it flows into the Rhine. At the centre of a vast industrial area with 5 million inhabitants the river is biologically dead , as it

552-459: The water of the Emscher before it flows into the Rhine. Since the early 1990s, efforts to restore the Emscher to its natural state have been making headway. The last coal mine ( Bergwerk Prosper-Haniel  [ de ] ) was closed in December 2018. Now that coal mining near the route of the river has halted, a large underground pipe is being built along the path of the river. The first stretch of

576-487: Was used as an open waste-water canal from the end of the 19th century. The subsidence caused by coal mining along its route made the option of subterranean sewer pipes running alongside unworkable, as they would break each time the ground shifted. Owing to the steady flow of spoil from the mining industry it has been impossible for the route of the Emscher to be maintained and its mouth into the Rhine has shifted north twice. A large wastewater treatment plant at its mouth treats

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