ingo petzke born 18 september 1947 in belm near osnabrck in germany is an internationally acknowledged german film scholar filmmaker and authoringo petzke grew up in osnabrck he attended the mnster and bochum universities and received his masters degree in 1973 journalism scandinavian studies modern historypetzke started his professional career in 1976 in bad oeynhausen as one of germanys youngest directors of an adult education school but fell more and more to the lure of film for several years he worked in the festivalkommission of internationale kurzfilmtage oberhausen and together with his students heiko daxl and others started the osnabrck experimentalfilm workshop in 1980 which since 1988 is known as european media art festivalin 1974 he was adjunct lecturer for film at ruhr universitt bochum and between 19781983 at universitt osnabrck since then he lectured in 29 countries among them new zealand hong kong chile argentina the us of a and canada in 1986 the philippine government awarded him for international contribution to philippine independent cinemahis experimental shorts screened at numerous domestic and foreign festivals 19762000 his company cine pro acted as sole german distributor specialised in avantgardeexperimental film during the 80s petzke was a member of the film commission of goetheinstitut german culture institute for which he curated several packages of experimental films and shortssince 1983 petzke has been professor for film at the design faculty of the university of applied sciences wrzburgschweinfurt he lived and worked several turns in australia 1992 as visiting professor at queensland university of technology in brisbane and 2001 2006 as associate professor at bond university on the gold coast in 2004 he earned his phd by published works about experimental film additionally he was awarded a dr phil degree in 2006 at universitt osnabrck with a film historical dissertation about hollywoodbased australian feature film director phillip noyce in 2008 he was appointed adjunct professor at the james cook universitys school of creative arts and in 2009 appointed honorary fellow of the cairns institute for research in the tropics both in farnorth queensland australiahis main areas of interest are the history of the international avantgarde since 2008 he is also director of the german research center for experimental film and more recently australian film also he has frequently done research into curriculum development particularly for the german federal governmentpetzke is a member of the german film critics association vdfk and of screen producers association of australia spaa