Wolf Koenig
- Production
- October 17, 1927 · Dresden, Saxony, Germany
- June 26, 2014
Biography
Wolf Koenig (October 17, 1927 – June 26, 2014) was a Canadian film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Dresden, Germany, Koenig emigrated to Canada with his family in 1937, when they fled Nazi Germany. They settled in 145-acre (0.59 km2) farm along the Grand River, outside what is now known as Cambridge, Ontario. In 1948, a local representative for the Canadian department of agriculture needed the family's tractor to demonstrate a new tree-planting machine. As the young Koenig pulled the machine across a field, he noticed a small film crew from the NFB's former agricultural film unit, recording the demonstration. After filming was complete, he approached the men, who included director Raymond Garceau, and told them he loved films, especially animation, and hoped to work in filmmaking. They suggested he send in a job application and approximately six weeks later he received a letter offering him the position of a junior splicer for $100 per month. His younger brother Joe Koenig was also a filmmaker.
Known for
Filmography
- Rebels with a Camera · Self
- Show Girls · Cinematography
- Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot... He Scores · Producer, Cinematography
- When Shirley Met Florence · Producer
- Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance · Producer
- Walker · Producer
- Connection · Director, Editing
- Discussions in Bioethics: A Chronic Problem · Producer
- Discussions in Bioethics: The Courage of One's Convictions · Producer
- Behind the Veil: Nuns · Graphic Designer
- John Cat · Director, Writer
- Incident at Restigouche · Editing
- Laughter in My Soul · Producer
- Ted Baryluk's Grocery · Producer
- Nose and Tina · Producer
- Canada Vignettes: Sodbusters · Producer
- Canada Vignettes: Trading Post · Producer
- Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf · Producer
- Canada Vignettes: Voyageurs · Producer
- Canada Vignettes: Faces · Producer
- Deep Threat · Producer
- The Street · Executive producer
- Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer · Producer
- Spinnolio · Producer
- Amisk · Executive producer
- No Apple for Johnny · Producer
- Poets on Film No. 1 · Executive producer
- Poets on Film No. 2 · Executive producer
- Extinction of the Dinosaurs · Producer
- The Lion and the Mouse · Executive producer
- Face of the Earth · Producer
- The Energy Carol · Executive producer
- The Housewife · Executive producer
- A Token Gesture · Executive producer
- Perspectrum · Producer
- Natsik Hunting · Producer
- Sikusilarmiut · Executive producer
- Who Are We? · Producer
- The Light Fantastick · Producer
- The Coldspring Project · Producer
- Icarus · Producer
- The Family That Dwelt Apart · Producer
- Man: The Polluter · Director
- Ten: The Magic Number · Producer
- Ananse's Farm · Producer
- Pictures Out Of My Life · Producer
- Tickets s.v.p · Producer
- The Innocent Door · Producer
- The Myth and the Reality · Producer
- Tilt · Producer
- Exeter · Producer
- Christmas at Moose Factory · Producer
- Hot Stuff · Producer
- Ashes of Doom · Producer
- Where There's Smoke · Director
- N-Zone · Camera Operator
- To See or Not to See · Producer
- Le Québec as Seen by Cartier-Bresson · Editing
- What on Earth! · Producer
- The Drag · Producer
- Steeltown · Director, Cinematography
- Stravinsky · Director, Editing
- Age of the Buffalo · Cinematography
- Lonely Boy · Director, Cinematography
- The Living Machine · Cinematography
- Festival in Puerto Rico · Director, Editing
- The Days of Whisky Gap · Producer
- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling · Director, Producer
- Universe · Camera Operator
- The Cars in Your Life · Producer, Cinematography
- The Back-breaking Leaf · Producer
- The End of the Line · Producer
- Emergency Ward · Producer, Cinematography
- Glenn Gould: Off the Record · Director, Producer
- Glenn Gould: On the Record · Director, Producer
- The Days Before Christmas · Director, Editing
- Police · Producer
- Memory of Summer · Producer, Cinematography
- Pilgrimage · Producer, Cinematography
- Country Threshing · Director, Producer