Biography
Harald Pulch studied German and Political Science in Frankfurt am Main. In 1987 he founded his own production company, Filmproduktion Harald Pulch, followed by BVM Bild+Vision Medienproduktion GmbH in 1990. In the following years, Pulch produced numerous reports and documentaries for various television stations, including "Papas Kino lebt. Artur Brauner und die CCC-Film" (1990, together with Klaus Schönekäs), "Film ist Rhythmus. Werbefilm und Avantgarde" (1991, together with Martin Loiperdinger), the two-part "Die Lust an der Farbe. Die Geschichte des Farbfilms" (1993, together with Loiperdinger) and "Als man anfing zu filmen - Der Filmpionier Oskar Messter" (1995, together with Loiperdinger). In 1995, his ZDF reportage "Praxis extra: Röntgen: 100 Jahre Durchblick" focusing on Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered X-rays won 2nd place at the German Business Film Award.
Pulch was the producer of the documentary "Mit den Füßen fotografieren - Der Fotograf Pino Bertelli" (1993, director: Jürgen Czwienk). In 1997, he realized four contributions for the German-French culture TV channel Arte for a thematic focus on chocolate.
At the same time, Harald Pulch has been a professor for film design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz since 1993. In 1997 he became the director of the Institute for Media Design (IMG) there. In 2005, he was awarded the teaching prize for art and music.
Pulch retired in 2009 for health reasons, but continued to work on various film and media projects, including the 2011 exhibition "Moving Types," which was shown at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, in Schwäbisch-Gmünd, and in Dortmund.
Together with his former IMG student Ralf Ott, Pulch began work in 2021 on the documentary feature "Oskar Fischinger – Musik für die Augen," a project he had wanted to realize since 1993, when he met the animation pioneer's widow and collaborator for interviews in Los Angeles. These interviews now form the basis of the film, which was released in September 2023.