Rainer Rother

Dr. Rainer Rother is head of the Berlinale's Retrospective and responsible for the Berlinale Classics as well as for the film series of the Homage. He was born in 1956, studied German literature and history and completed his doctorate in 1988. From 1989 to 1991, he was lecturer at the University of Hanover and from 1991 to 2006, he was director of the cinematheque of the German Historical Museum (Berlin), where he also curated exhibitions (incl. The German Empire of Images. Ufa 1917-1945; The Final Days of Humanity. Images of the First World War; Paths of the Germans 1949-1999. Unity and Law and Freedom). He has primarily published articles on film history in journals such as Merkur and in various newspapers (FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, Berliner Zeitung). He has regularly contributed to books and lexicons and has published numerous books, as an author amongst others: "Time Pictures. Films of National Socialism" (2019), "Nina Hoss" (2009), "Leni Riefenst