Jeanette Erazo Heufelder

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Jeanette Erazo Heufelder (2019)

Jeanette Erazo Heufelder (* 1964 as Jeanette Erazo ) is a German ethnologist . She became known as a documentary filmmaker and author of biographies and literary reports with a focus on Latin America .

Life

Jeanette Erazo Heufelder was born as the daughter of a German and an Ecuadorian in Bavaria and grew up in Munich. After graduating from Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich, she studied ethnology at the LMU Munich and did field research in the Ecuadorian Andes and the Galapagos Islands . In 1993 she did her doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg in the subject of cultural and social anthropology with a dissertation on culture and ethnicity using the example of the Salasaca .

She is married to the documentary filmmaker Sylvio Heufelder and lives with him in Potsdam .

Create

Jeanette Erazo Heufelder wrote scripts for documentary films and turned film portraits of Latin American artists and human rights activists, such as the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu and Colombian Gloria Cuartas, who as mayor of Apartadó against the violence of paramilitaries and drug traffickers fought and by the UNESCO with the award Mayor for the peace was honored. While researching and filming in Latin America, Jeanette Erazo found Heufelder on the topics of her book reports and biographies.

In 1995 she met Fidel Castro personally while filming a film about the painter and sculptor Oswaldo Guayasamín in Havana . In 2004 her biography Fidel was published. A private view of the Máximo Líder . She combined conversations with companions, contemporary witnesses and opponents to create a collection of “stories, facts, legends and quotes” that form an overall picture that shows the Cuban politician in all his contradictions.

With the emerald king. Victor Carranza and the green gold of the Andes , she wrote a literary report on the world of miners and the emerald bosses in Colombia . In 2006, the book was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award , an international reportage prize.

For her 2011 book report, Drug Corridor Mexico, about the drug war in Mexico , she spent five weeks on a route away from the major highways in the border area with the USA, from Culiacán on the west coast, where the Sinaloa cartel of El Chapo rules, to Ciudad Juárez on the Texas border. At every stop on her journey, she found traces of violence and spoke to the people who live in the drug regions. She collected everyday stories and linked them with information about the history of the country. According to Carsten Hueck, the strength of her report is that she wrests some of the victims of the brutality of the warring drug cartels from the anonymous statistics. You write about a war that has become normal. According to Peter B. Schumann , Jeanette Erazo Heufelder succeeded with her book "the first comprehensive presentation of the topic that explores reality on the basis of reports."

In 2017 her book about Felix Weil , who co-founded and financed the Institute for Social Research , was published.

Works

Documentaries (selection)

  • Oswaldo Guayasamín. The man who painted Fidel Castro , ZDF / ARTE (1996)
  • I crossed the border. Portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú , ZDF / ARTE / UNESCO (1997)
  • In the City of Death (via Gloria Cuartas), ZDF / ARTE / UNESCO (1999)
  • Emeralds. Gemstone Search in Colombia . With Sylvio Heufelder, ARD / Phoenix (2011)

Books

  • Culture and ethnicity . Förderverein Völkerkunde in Marburg eV, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-8185-0166-1 .
  • Gloria Cuartas. Mayoress for Peace. Portrait of the Colombian human rights fighter (1999)
  • Havana Feelings. The magic of old Cuba. From the memories of Fernando Campoamor (2001)
  • Fidel. A private view of the Máximo Líder . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-3980-5 .
    • Updated version under the title Fidel Castro. 133 Views of the Máximo Líder. A kaleidoscope (2013)
  • The emerald king. Victor Carranza and the green gold of the Andes . Malik Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89029-301-8 .
  • Mexico drug corridor. A report (2011)
  • From Berlin to Buenos Aires. Ellen Marx . German-Jewish emigrant and mother of the Plaza de Mayo (2014)
  • The Argentine Croesus. Brief economic history of the Frankfurt School . Berenberg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946334-16-3 .
  • Welcome to Borderland. The US border. Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946334-39-2 .

Fiction

  • The Flower Warrior (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jeanette Erazo Heufelder (Germany, Ecuador), website of the International Literature Festival Berlin 2014
  2. ^ Jeanette Erazo Heufelder: Culture and Ethnicity. A revision of terms using the example of Andean conditions: Salasaca (Ecuador) , Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-8185-0166-1 . Dissertation University of Marburg 1993
  3. ↑ a b Interview by Hendrik Ternieden with Jeanette Erazo Heufelder, Spiegel Online, October 3, 2011
  4. ^ Longlist, Authors 2006, website of the Lettre Ulysses Award
  5. ↑ Living in a Nightmare. A report on the "Mexico drug corridor" , 3sat, November 23, 2011
  6. ^ Carsten Hueck: Report from the heart of darkness , Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 29, 2011
  7. ↑ Peter B. Schumann: Drug War - Mexico's Biggest Problem , Deutschlandfunk, November 21, 2011
  8. ↑ programm.ard.de
  9. ↑ Jörg Später: First comes the investment, then the theory. The capital of the criticism of capitalism: Jeanette Erazo Heufelder's economic history of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research focuses on the patron Felix Weil . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 7, 2017, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Erazo Heufelder, Jeanette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erazo, Jeanette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist, documentary filmmaker, author with a focus on Latin America
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria