Peter Adam

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Peter Adam is a British filmmaker and author. Born in Nazi Germany, his work includes Art of the Third Reich (ISBN 0-8109-1912-5).

PETER ADAM PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER

PETER ADAM has been an Executive Producer with the BBC for 22 years. He has been the Editor of the Arts magazines REVIEW and ARENA THEATRE.

He has made over 100 documentaries for the Current Affairs and for the Music and Arts Department, among them many prize winning films:

LAWRENCE DURREL'S SPIRIT OF PLACE nominated for a British Academy Award for Best Factual Programme of 1976 RICHARD STRAUSS REMEMBERED Golden Award Houston Film Festival for Best Full Length Documentary of 1985 LOTTE LENYA AND KURT WEILL Prix Italia selection GEORGE GERSHWIN REMEMBERED British Academy Nomination for Best Arts Program 1987 Prime Time Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Special l988, ART OF THE THIRD REICH Winner of the 1989 British Academy Award in 1989 for Best Arts Documentary of the Year. Nominated for the British Film Institute Award. Nominated for an Ace Award in Los Angeles

He has written and directed many International series:

DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL THEM AND US

   Six programs investigating the Arts in the Common Market        Countries.  

SIX MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS Lartigue, Kertesz, Adams, Brandt, Feininger, Eisenstaedt. ARCHITECTURE AT THE CROSSROADS 10 programs on modern architecture

His others films include:

THE WAR IN BIAFRA, CHARLES DE GAULE, CUBA ART AND REVOLUTION, RUSSIA ART AND REVOLUTION, DAVID HOCKNEY AT WORK, LILLIAN HELLMAN, LUCCHINO VISCONTI AT WORK, JEANNE MOREAU, MAN RAY, THE NEW GERMAN CINEMA, HILDEGARD BEHRENS, RUDOLF NUREYEV, HANS WERNER HENZE, KINO PERESTROIKA, EDWARD ALBEE, BORGES, THE NEW BRITISH THEATRE.

He has directed both for stage and television:

STRAVINSKY'S ' SOLDIERS TALE' KURT WEILL'S LITTLE MAHAGONY and 'HAPPY END' SONG LINES , a ballet

Peter Adam has a Ph D from the Berlin University and a MA from the Sorbonne. He is a regular lecturer and contributor to several International magazines.

He is the author of several books:

EISENSTAEDT BY EISENSTAEDT, Abbeville Press, published in The United States, England, Italy

KERTESZ BY KERTESZ, Abbeville Press, published in The United States, England, Italy

EILEEN GRAY, Abrams and Thames and Hudson Biography of the designer and architect, published in the United States, England, Germany, France and Japan.

ART IN THE THIRD REICH, Abrams and Thames and Hudson published in The United States, England, Germany and Japan

NOT DROWNING BUT WAVING, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

published by Andre Deutsch

DAVID HOCKNEY AND HIS FRIENDS published by Absolute Press

A DESIGN CLASSIC EILEEN GRAY'S E 1027 TABLE published by Form

PETER ADAM PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER

PROGRAMS OVER ONE HOUR LONG

LAWRENCE DURREL'S SPIRIT OF PLACE 1. GREECE, 1976 ( exist on a commercial cassette) nominated for a British Academy Award for Best Factual Program of 1976 2 EGYPT, 1978

RICHARD STRAUSS REMEMBERED,1988 Golden Award Houston Film Festival for Best Full Length Documentary of 1985

LOTTE LENYA AND KURT WEILL, 1979 Prix Italia selection

GEORGE GERSHWIN REMEMBERED, 1987 ( exist on commercial cassette) British Academy Nomination for Best Arts Program 1987 Prime Time Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Special l988,

ART OF THE THIRD REICH 2 programs, 1988 Winner of the 1989 British Academy Award in 1989 for Best Arts Documentary of the Year. Nominated for the British Film Institute Award. Nominated for an Ace Award in Los Angeles

SERIES MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1983 Lartigue, Kertesz, Adams, Brandt, Feininger, Eisenstaedt.

SERIES ARCHITECTURE AT THE CROSSROADS, 1986 10 programs on modern architecture

ONE-OFF DOCUMENTARIES

OMNIBUS: JEANNE MOREAU, 1978

OMNIBUS; LILLIAN HELLMAN, 1979

DIAGHILEV, 1979

EDWARD ALBEEE, THE PLAYWRIGHT VERSUS THE THEATRE, 1980

DAVID HOCKNEY AT WORK, 1981

Peter Adam is the author of the following books:

PETER ADAM. EISENSTAEDT BY EISENSTAEDT, BBC and Abbeville Press, N.Y. 1984 also published in Italy (Art & SRL 1989 ISBN 88 85893)

PETER ADAM, KERTESZ BY KERTESZ, BBC and Abbeville Press, NY, 1984 also published Italy

PETER ADAM, EILEEN GRAY, A BIOGRAPHY, Abrams, NY and Thames and Hudson, England ,1988 Also published in Germany (Edition Stemmle), France ( Adam Biro) and Japan (Libroport 1991.

PETER ADAM, ART IN THE THIRD REICH, Abrams, N. Y and Thames and Hudson, England, 1992 also published in Germany (Edition 2001), Spain (Tusquets Barcelona)

PETER ADAM, NOT DROWNING BUT WAVING, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

published by Andre Deutsch, 1995

In Preparation:

PETER ADAM, THE LOVE OF MAN, Homoerotic Art from Greece to the Present Time, Stewart Tabory and Young, New York 1997

PETER ADAM, DAVID HOCKNEY AND HIS FRIENDS, Absolute Press, Bath, 1997

PETER ADAM has been an Executive Producer with the BBC for 22 years. He has been the editor of the Arts magazine REVIEW and ARENA THEATRE. He has made over 100 documentaries for the Current Affairs and for the Music and Arts Department.

International series:

DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL

THEM AND US, Six programs investigating the Arts in the Common Market Countries.

SIX MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS Lartigue, Kertesz, Adams, Brandt, Feininger, Eisenstaedt.

ARCHITECTURE AT THE CROSSROADS 10 programs on modern architecture

His many prize winning documentaries include:

LAWRENCE DURREL'S SPIRIT OF PLACE British Academy Nomination for best factual program in 1976

RICHARD STRAUSS REMEMBERED Golden Award Houston Film Festival for best full length documentary 1985

LOTTE LENYA AND KURT WEILL Prix Italia 1978

GEORGE GERSHWIN REMEMBERED British Academy Nomination for Best Arts Program 1987. Prime Time Emmy Nomination for outstanding Special l988

ART OF THE THIRD REICH Winner of the 1989 British Academy Award in 1989 for the best Arts Documentary of the year. British Film Institute Award Nomination 1990 Ace Award Nomination 1991, Los Angeles)

His others documentaries include:

THE WAR IN BIAFRA, CHARLES DE GAULE, CUBA ART AND REVOLUTION, RUSSIA ART AND REVOLUTION, DAVID HOCKNEY AT WORK, LILLIAN HELLMAN, LUCCHINO VISCONTI AT WORK, JEANNE MOREAU, MAN RAY, THE NEW GERMAN CINEMA,HILDEGARD BEHRENS, RUDOLF NUREYEV,HANS WERNER HENZE, KINO PERESTROIKA, LEONARD BERNSTEIN.

Peter Adam has directed both for stage and television STRAVINSKY'S ' SOLDIERS TALE' and KURT WEILL'S LITTLE MAHAGONY and 'HAPPY END

Peter Adam has been involved in many International Co productions and his films have been shown throughout the world notably Germany, Italy, France, the United States, Holland, Australia, Scandinavia and of course the United Kingdom.

Peter Adam is a regular contributor to several International magazines Vogue, Geo, Du, Ambiente, The Listener . He is the author of: EISENSTAEDT BY EISENSTAEDT KERTESZ BY KERTESZ , EILEEN GRAY,a Biography of the designer and architect .(Abrams Art

Peter Adam