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Wolfgang Petersen
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Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director who created movies from the 1970s until his death in 2022. He is remembered as an influential filmmaker whose work shaped cinema during his lifetime.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Charakterisierung der Zellwandsaccharide des Pollenschlauches von Nicotiana sylvestris Speg. & Comes nach enzymatischer Hydrolyse
- Das Boot - The Director's Cut
- Das boot =
- Die Resonanz
- The perfect storm
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1756-01-27
- Active to
- 1791-12-05
Discography
- Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in D minor, op. 3 no. 11 / Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 2511950
- Le nozze di Figaro1951
- Die Zauberflöte1952
- Concerto in C major for Flute, Harp and Orchestra (K. 299) / Concerto no. 1 in G major for Flute and Orchestra (K. 313)1954
- Gloria / Exultate Jubilate1954
- Le nozze di Figaro di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1954
- Horn Concertos1954
- Concerto 23 la majeur K.4881955
- Così fan tutte1955
- Die Zauberflöte1955
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 806
- Total plays
- 4,589
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,656x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,733x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,980x
- HTSeq—a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data
· 2014 · cited 19,261x
- <i>XDS</i>
· 2010 · cited 16,365x
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Wolfgang Petersen - Poseidon Premiere.jpg
- Height
- 1.78
- Number of children
- 1
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1941-03-14
- Commons category
- Wolfgang Petersen
- name in native language
- Wolfgang Petersen
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-08-12
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Wolfgang Petersen (14 March 1941 – 12 August 2022) was a German film and television director, screenwriter and producer. His international breakthrough was the war film Das Boot (1981), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He subsequently directed the blockbuster fantasy film The Never Ending Story (1984), based on the 1979 novel of the same name.
After moving to the United States in the mid-1980s, Petersen directed his first American production, the science-fiction film Enemy Mine (1985). He directed a variety of major studio productions through the mid-2000s, including In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004) and Poseidon (2006).