Ingo Petzke

Who is Ingo Petzke?

Ingo Petzke is an internationally acknowledged German film scholar, filmmaker and author.

Ingo Petzke grew up in Osnabrück. He attended the Münster and Bochum universities and received his Masters degree in 1973.

Petzke started his professional career in 1976 in Bad Oeynhausen as one of Germany's youngest directors of an adult education school but fell more and more to the lure of Film. For several years he worked in the Festivalkommission of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and together with his students started the Osnabrück Experimentalfilm Workshop in 1980 which since 1988 is known as European Media Art Festival.

In 1974 he was adjunct lecturer for film at Ruhr Universität Bochum and between 1978–1983 at Universität Osnabrück. Since then he lectured in 29 countries, among them New Zealand, Hong Kong, Chile, Argentina, the US of A and Canada. In 1986 the Philippine government awarded him for „International Contribution to Philippine Independent Cinema“

His shorts screened at numerous domestic and foreign festivals. 1976–2000 his company CINE PRO acted as sole German distributor specialised in Avant-garde/Experimental Film. During the 80s Petzke was a member of the Film Commission of Goethe-Institut - German Culture Institute, for which he curated several packages of Experimental films and Shorts.