Manfred Salzgeber was a German

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 actor

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 and film producer

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. He was director of the "Sektion Panorama" at the Internationales Filmfestspiel Berlin. He was a co-founder of the Internationales Forum des Jungen Films and founded the film company edition manfred salzgeber.

Salzgeber was born in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) in 1943 and was raised in Stuttgart-Rohr. After training as a book dealer, he moved to Berlin in 1965. Openly

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 gay

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, he was an important LGBT

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 activist in Germany. Together with Wieland Speck

Wieland Speck

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, he worked to advance LGBT themes in German film.

In 1970, Salzgeber acted in the film It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives

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, directed by Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim , in Riga, Latvia. His given name is Holger Mischwitzky. He is a German film director, author, painter and gay rights activist. Openly gay, he is one of the initiators of the gay rights movement in Germany....

. This film had a profound influence on German LGBT activism and society. During his entire lifetime, Salzgeber promoted LGBT films. Together with Wieland Speck he founded the Teddy Award

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 in Berlin

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 in 1987. This award is the oldest international award for LGBT films. In 1985, Salzgeber started his film company, edition manfred salzgeber. The company is still active in Berlin. Salzgeber died on August 12, 1994, of complications due to AIDS

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External links

• Official Website of Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH
• Literature about Manfred Salzgeber in German National Library