Biography

(1990-2006) Head of the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin.

(2000-2006) Head of the Film Museum Berlin.

The party that he organized with his wife Antje Goldau at every Berlinale was legendary - only Jane Russell, to whom a retrospective was dedicated in 1991, grumbled, it is said, because the lift broke down that evening and she had to climb a few stairs.

Hans Helmut Prinzler shared lifelong solidarity and friendship with the (then) young German filmmakers, Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Lilienthal and Rudolf Thome. In 1979 he documented "Film in the Federal Republic of Germany" in a volume with Hans Günther Pflaum, in 1993 the "History of German Film" - two standard works.

Hans Helmut Prinzler was a film lover without a rigid canon, he liked going to the cinema, including the new action cinema, he let himself be seduced and always saw the pictures on the screen in the context of their society, their history. He liked listening when filmmakers talked about their experiences, with old King Vidor as well as with Klaus Wildenhahn. In 2007 he made the film "Eye in Eye" with Michael Althen: ten filmmakers are confronted with ten works from German cinema history.