Lothar Scholz

Lothar Scholz, born in Brandenburg, grew up with his parents in Breslau until World War two forced his mother and himself to follow a track of refugees to Berlin. Here he grew up and - as a child - joined the children's casting for the film "Emil and the Detektive" which was published in 1994. As a "true Berliner" he refused to join the children casted to join the crowd and asked to become a role in which he was allowed to speak. His courage was awarded: He had a small role as Hotel Boy (Page) in the Hotel where the evil character of the movie rented a room during his stay in Berlin. This was the only movie in which he participated. In his education he was first fascinated by industrial design and worked with Ridu Busse, founder of busse design ulm before he studied economics and started his career at ifo insitute for economic research where he developed the "Innovation Test" as annex for the regular "Konjunkturtest" performed by the institute to measure economic moods of industry. He as well contributed as author in several economic studies in topics around innovation and impact of technologies on economy. At the age of 54 he died in may 1997.