In 1998, three young Munich filmmakers — Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, and Sebastian Kutzli — launched Revolver as a German-language film journal made by and for filmmakers. The magazine's core is its interviews: long, searching conversations with directors, cinematographers, editors, and writers from around the world, conducted by people who understand the craft from the inside. These are not press junket Q&As but genuine exchanges about process, doubt, failure, and the concrete decisions that shape a film.
Now based in Berlin with an expanded editorial team including Jens Börner, Franz Müller, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Saskia Walker, and Marcus Seibert, Revolver has published over forty issues and earned the DEFA Prize for fostering artistic talent in 2009. The magazine also hosts Revolver Live events at venues like Berlin's Volksbühne and Arsenal cinema, where interviews are conducted publicly, and co-releases rare films on DVD with Filmgalerie 451 — titles that were previously unavailable in Germany or lacked German subtitles.
Revolver calls itself a Zeitschrift für Film — a journal for film — and it means exactly that. Not film criticism, not industry reporting, but a sustained inquiry into what it means to make films. Thomas Heise, Lucrecia Martel, and dozens of other directors have opened up in its pages with a candour they rarely show elsewhere, because the people asking the questions are filmmakers themselves.
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