Wolf Koenig

Wolf Koenig (1927-2014) was a director, producer, cinematographer, editor and animator born in 1927 in Dresden, Germany. He immigrated to Canada with his family in 1937. A multi-talented and innovative artist, Wolf Koenig spent 47 years at the NFB, where he contributed to some of its most prestigious documentary, experimental and animation films. In the early 1950s, Koenig filmed Norman McLaren's Oscar-winning Neighbours (1952). He also worked on Colin Low's animated short The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952) and was the cinematographer on Low's 11-minute masterpiece, Corral (1954). With Roman Kroitor, Koenig directed the visually innovative City of Gold (1957. As one of the leading members of the direct cinema movement at the NFB, Koenig made a major contribution to the influential Candid Eye series and directed the legendary Lonely Boy (1962) with Kroitor. He was the head of the NFB's English animation unit from 1962 to 1967 and from 1972 to 1975. He also co-produced Alanis Obomsawin's _Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. _Koenig retired from the NFB in 1995 with a credit list of more than 170 titles.