Peter Adam

Peter Adam (born 1929) is a British filmmaker and author. Born in Germany, his work includes Art of the Third Reich (ISBN 0-8109-1912-5).^[1]

He was born in Germany in 1929 to a middle-class family. His father was Jewish and his mother Protestant. In 1944 he moved to Austria.^[2] he became a British citizen in 1965 before taking up a career in broadcasting.^[3]

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 been made an Officer des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. An autobiography, "Mémoires à contre-vent", was published in French by Edition La Différence in April 2010.^[3]

Film works

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 1988
• 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

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