Wim Wenders and the Postwar Road Movie

Wim Wenders

German film director, screenwriter, producer, photographer, and author. One of the representative filmmakers of New German Cinema since the 1970s, he is known for works themed around travel, movement, solitude, memory, cities and landscapes, and human identity. Acclaimed as a master of road movies, he drew attention with "Alice in the Cities" (1974), "Wrong Move" (1975), and "Kings of the Road" (1976). He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Paris, Texas" (1984), and "Wings of Desire" (1987) also became a representative work. Devoting strong effort to documentaries, he produced films including "Buena Vista Social Club" (1999), "Pina" (2011), and "The Salt of the Earth" (2014).

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Year	Wim Wenders
1939	World War II (Age: 6 years before birth, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.)
1945	Birth of Wim Wenders (Period: August 14, 1945, Location: Düsseldorf, Germany (Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany))
1947	Cold War (Age: 1 years old, Period: c. 1947–1991, Location: Europe, North America, Cuba, etc.)
1961	Construction of the Berlin Wall (Age: 15 years old, Period: August 1961, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1966	Interest in Film and Stay in Paris (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1966, Location: Paris, France)
1967	Enrollment at the University of Television and Film Munich (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1967–1970, Location: Munich, West Germany)
1968	Marriage (Wim Wenders and Edda Köchl, Age: 22 years old, Period: Married 1968, Divorced 1974, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1970	Feature Directing Debut 'Summer in the City' (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1970, Location: Munich and Other Locations, West Germany)
1974	Production of the Road Movie Trilogy (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1974–1976, Location: Various Locations in West Germany) Marriage (Wim Wenders and Lisa Kreuzer, Age: 28 years old, Period: Married 1974, Divorced 1978, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information) Marriage (Wim Wenders and Ronee Blakley, Age: 28 years old, Period: Married 1979, Divorced 1981, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1977	Release of 'The American Friend' (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1977, Location: West Germany, France, United States, etc.)
1978	Production of 'Hammett' in Hollywood (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1978–1982, Location: California and Other Locations, United States)
1981	Marriage (Wim Wenders and Isabelle Weingarten, Age: 35 years old, Period: Married 1981, Divorced 1982, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1984	Success of 'Paris, Texas' (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1984, Location: France, United States, etc.)
1987	Release of 'Wings of Desire' (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1987, Location: West Berlin (at the time))
1989	Fall of the Berlin Wall (Age: 44 years old, Period: November 9, 1989, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1993	Marriage (Wim Wenders and Donata Wenders, Age: 47 years old, Period: Married 1993, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1999	Release of 'Buena Vista Social Club' (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1999, Location: Havana, Cuba, etc.)
2011	Release of 'Pina' (Age: 65 years old, Period: 2011, Location: Wuppertal, Germany, etc.)
2012	Establishment of the Wim Wenders Foundation (Age: 66 years old, Period: 2012, Location: Berlin, Germany)
2014	Release of 'The Salt of the Earth' (Age: 68 years old, Period: 2014, Location: Brazil, France, and Worldwide)
2023	Release of 'Perfect Days' (Age: 77 years old, Period: 2023, Location: Tokyo, Japan)
2026	Death of Wim Wenders (Age: 81 years old, Period: Alive as of October 2026)

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The Division of Germany	Konrad Adenauer Walter Ulbricht Otto Grotewohl Wilhelm Pieck Erich Honecker Willy Brandt Helmut Kohl
Prague Spring	Ludvík Svoboda Josef Smrkovský Ludvík Vaculík Alexander Dubček Václav Havel Milan Kundera Oldřich Černík
Fall of the Berlin Wall	Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Mikhail Gorbachev Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz Günter Schabowski Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
Literature and Thought	Václav Havel Milan Kundera Czesław Miłosz Wisława Szymborska Günter Grass Heinrich Böll Thomas Bernhard Ingeborg Bachmann Elfriede Jelinek
Arts & Film	Sándor Pál Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Kieślowski Miloš Forman Jiří Menzel Werner Herzog Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders

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