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'''Caroline Link''' (born 2 June 1964) is a German [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]].
'''Caroline Link''' (born 2 June 1964) is a German TV and [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]].

She is best known for directing critically acclaimed [[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Beyond Silence]], which was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]] <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Academy Awards Database Search {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |url=https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22FilmTitle%22%3A%22Beyond%20Silence%22%2C%22Sort%22%3A%222-Film%20Title-Alpha%22%2C%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22%3A0%2C%22AwardShowNumberTo%22%3A0%2C%22Search%22%3A30%7D |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=awardsdatabase.oscars.org}}</ref>, and for directing ''[[Nowhere in Africa]]'', which won an [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]] <ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Academy Awards Database Search {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |url=https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22FilmTitle%22:%22Nowhere%20in%20Africa%22,%22Sort%22:%222-Film%20Title-Alpha%22,%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22:0,%22AwardShowNumberTo%22:0,%22Search%22:30%7D |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=awardsdatabase.oscars.org}}</ref> and was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] <ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Nowhere In Africa |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/nowhere-africa |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Golden Globes}}</ref>.


==Life and work==
==Life and work==
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Link's first feature film, ''[[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Jenseits der Stille]]'' (''Beyond Silence'', 1996) was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film,<ref name="Oscars1998">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1998 |title=The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners |access-date=13 October 2015 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents.<ref>{{cite news | author=Dinitia Smith | title= Families Joined or Divided by Silence; Film Shed Light on Emotional Issues of the Deaf | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E7D7133AF932A25755C0A96E958260 | work=The New York Times | date=11 June 1998 | access-date=22 January 2008}}</ref> Her second feature film was ''Annaluise and Anton'' (1999), based on a novel by [[Erich Kästner]]. Her third feature film, ''Nirgendwo in Afrika'' (''[[Nowhere in Africa]]'', 2001), adapted by Link from the [[autobiographical novel]] by [[Stefanie Zweig]] and shot on location in [[Kenya]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Stefanie Zweig | title=Strangers in a Strange Land |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/21/artsfeatures |work=The Guardian | date=23 February 2003 | access-date=22 January 2008}}</ref> received the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] as well winning the [[German Film Award]] (''[[Deutscher Filmpreis]]'') in five categories, including [[German Film Award for Best Fiction Film|Best Fiction Film]].
Link's first feature film, ''[[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Jenseits der Stille]]'' (''Beyond Silence'', 1996) was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film,<ref name="Oscars1998">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1998 |title=The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners |access-date=13 October 2015 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents.<ref>{{cite news | author=Dinitia Smith | title= Families Joined or Divided by Silence; Film Shed Light on Emotional Issues of the Deaf | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E7D7133AF932A25755C0A96E958260 | work=The New York Times | date=11 June 1998 | access-date=22 January 2008}}</ref> Her second feature film was ''Annaluise and Anton'' (1999), based on a novel by [[Erich Kästner]]. Her third feature film, ''Nirgendwo in Afrika'' (''[[Nowhere in Africa]]'', 2001), adapted by Link from the [[autobiographical novel]] by [[Stefanie Zweig]] and shot on location in [[Kenya]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Stefanie Zweig | title=Strangers in a Strange Land |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/21/artsfeatures |work=The Guardian | date=23 February 2003 | access-date=22 January 2008}}</ref> received the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] as well winning the [[German Film Award]] (''[[Deutscher Filmpreis]]'') in five categories, including [[German Film Award for Best Fiction Film|Best Fiction Film]].

Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002.


=== Beyond Silence ===
=== Beyond Silence ===
Beyond Silence was Link's first break through, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and brought her global recognition. Beyond Silence illustrates the struggles of the main character Lara, a child of deaf adults (CODA), among communicating with her deaf parents Martin and Kai. Link uses the theme of silence in her story as an allegory for censorship, generational trauma and oppression in the heart of Germany society. " This isn’t really a movie about deafness, ''Beyond Silence''. It’s about deafness on the surface, of course, but the emotional substance is about communication in a family. I always try to speak about a universal emotion that most viewers will know and understand. So with ''Beyond Silence'', I knew I wanted to make a movie about a father and a daughter – a daughter who loves her father very much but who feels drawn to a completely different world. This I knew from my own life, and this is what I wanted to write about before I knew I’d make a movie about a deaf family."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://filmint.nu/?p=10619|title=Diva Directors Around the Globe: Spotlight on Caroline Link|website=Film International|date=17 January 2014|language=en-US|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref>
Beyond Silence was Link's first break through, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and brought her global recognition. Beyond Silence illustrates the struggles of the main character Lara, a child of deaf adults (CODA), among communicating with her deaf parents Martin and Kai. Link uses the theme of silence in her story as an allegory for censorship, generational trauma and oppression in the heart of Germany society. " This isn’t really a movie about deafness, ''Beyond Silence''. It’s about deafness on the surface, of course, but the emotional substance is about communication in a family. I always try to speak about a universal emotion that most viewers will know and understand. So with ''Beyond Silence'', I knew I wanted to make a movie about a father and a daughter – a daughter who loves her father very much but who feels drawn to a completely different world. This I knew from my own life, and this is what I wanted to write about before I knew I’d make a movie about a deaf family."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://filmint.nu/?p=10619|title=Diva Directors Around the Globe: Spotlight on Caroline Link|website=Film International|date=17 January 2014|language=en-US|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref>


“Women tend to worry a lot about their perception. We want to be nice people. But it’s not always possible to be calm, sweet and understanding when you are in a leading position or if you really try to get something that you need for your creative idea. I had to learn, that it is ok for a woman to WANT something, to be the boss and to sometimes even be aggressive”
“Women tend to worry a lot about their perception. We want to be nice people. But it’s not always possible to be calm, sweet and understanding when you are in a leading position or if you really try to get something that you need for your creative idea. I had to learn, that it is ok for a woman to WANT something, to be the boss and to sometimes even be aggressive”.


== Personal Life ==
*1996 [[Bayerischer Filmpreis|Bavarian Film Award]], Best New Director
Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002.
*1997 [[Tokyo International Film Festival|Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix]] by [[Jenseits der Stille]]
*1998 Bavarian Film Award, Best Young People's Film [https://web.archive.org/web/20080819211539/http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf]


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

*''[[Der Fahnder]]'' (1985) (TV Series)
=== Films ===
*''Bunte Blumen'' (1988)
{| class="wikitable"
*''Glück zum Anfassen'' (1989)
!Year
*''Sommertage'' (1990)
!Title
*''Kalle der Träumer'' (1992) (TV)
!Role
*''[[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Beyond Silence]]'' (1996)
!Notes
*''[[Annaluise & Anton]]'' (1999)
|-
*''[[Nowhere in Africa]]'' (2001)
|2019
*''[[Im Winter ein Jahr]]'' (2008)
|''[[When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (film)|When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit]]''
*''[[Exit Marrakech]]'' (2013)
|
*''Der Junge muss an die frische Luft'' (2018)
|
*''[[When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (film)|When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit]]'' (2019)
|-
|2018
|''Der Junge muss an die frische Luft''
|
|
|-
|2013
|''[[Exit Marrakech]]''
|
|
|-
|2008
|''[[Im Winter ein Jahr]]''
|
|
|-
|2001
|''[[Nowhere in Africa]]''
|
|
|-
|1999
|''[[Annaluise & Anton]]''
|
|
|-
|1996
|''[[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Beyond Silence]]''
|
|
|-
|1990
|''Sommertage''
|
|
|-
|1989
|''Glück zum Anfassen''
|
|
|-
|1988
|''Bunte Blumen''
|
|
|}


=== TV ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|1992
|''Kalle der Träumer''
|
|
|-
|1985
|''[[Der Fahnder]]''
|
|
|}

== Awards And Nominations ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Award
!Category
!Work
!Result
!Notes
|-
|2003
|[[Golden Globe Awards]]
|[[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
| rowspan="2" |''[[Nowhere in Africa]]''
|Nominated
|<ref name=":2" />
|-
|2002
|[[Academy Awards]]
|[[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best International Feature Film]]
|Won
|<ref name=":1" />
|-
|1998
|[[Bayerischer Filmpreis|Bavarian Film Award]]
|Best Young People's Film
|
|
|<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2008-08-19 |title=Bavarian Film Prize - Previous Award Winners |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819211539/http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref>
|-
|1997
|[[Academy Awards]]
|[[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best International Feature Film]]
|''[[Beyond Silence (1996 film)|Beyond Silence]]''
|Nominated
|<ref name=":0" />
|-
|1997
|[[Tokyo International Film Festival|Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix]]
|
|
|
|
|-
|1996
|[[Bayerischer Filmpreis|Bavarian Film Award]]
|Best New Director
|
|Won
|<ref name=":3" />
|}


== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==

Revision as of 06:37, 8 January 2023

Caroline Link
Link (2020)
Born (1964-06-02) 2 June 1964 (age 59)
Bad Nauheim, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter

Caroline Link (born 2 June 1964) is a German TV and film director and screenwriter.

She is best known for directing critically acclaimed Beyond Silence, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [1], and for directing Nowhere in Africa, which won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [2] and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award [3].

Life and work

Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), and then worked as an assistant director and script writer.

Link's early work includes the short film Bunte Blumen, from 1988. She was a co-director on the documentary film Das Glück zum Anfassen (1989). For Bavaria Film, she wrote two screenplays to the detective series Der Fahnder (The Investigators).

Caroline Link grew up in a small town outside of Frankfurt, Germany in 1968. Despite her family giving her a strong moral compass, they were a "non intellectual and non artistic family." Link first became interested in pursuing filmmaking after being a nanny in America, when she came back to Germany she was working on set as an extra and engaged with a camera man. She thought it would be an interesting profession, she recognized that being a camera women was going to be hard but after studying what they did on set as an extra she was able to get herself an internship in the film industry. Link enjoyed working in the film industry but wanted the ability to create and express her politics.[4] [5]

Link's first feature film, Jenseits der Stille (Beyond Silence, 1996) was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film,[6] and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents.[7] Her second feature film was Annaluise and Anton (1999), based on a novel by Erich Kästner. Her third feature film, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 2001), adapted by Link from the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig and shot on location in Kenya,[8] received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well winning the German Film Award (Deutscher Filmpreis) in five categories, including Best Fiction Film.

Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence was Link's first break through, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and brought her global recognition. Beyond Silence illustrates the struggles of the main character Lara, a child of deaf adults (CODA), among communicating with her deaf parents Martin and Kai. Link uses the theme of silence in her story as an allegory for censorship, generational trauma and oppression in the heart of Germany society. " This isn’t really a movie about deafness, Beyond Silence. It’s about deafness on the surface, of course, but the emotional substance is about communication in a family. I always try to speak about a universal emotion that most viewers will know and understand. So with Beyond Silence, I knew I wanted to make a movie about a father and a daughter – a daughter who loves her father very much but who feels drawn to a completely different world. This I knew from my own life, and this is what I wanted to write about before I knew I’d make a movie about a deaf family."[9]

“Women tend to worry a lot about their perception. We want to be nice people. But it’s not always possible to be calm, sweet and understanding when you are in a leading position or if you really try to get something that you need for your creative idea. I had to learn, that it is ok for a woman to WANT something, to be the boss and to sometimes even be aggressive”.

Personal Life

Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002.

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes
2019 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
2018 Der Junge muss an die frische Luft
2013 Exit Marrakech
2008 Im Winter ein Jahr
2001 Nowhere in Africa
1999 Annaluise & Anton
1996 Beyond Silence
1990 Sommertage
1989 Glück zum Anfassen
1988 Bunte Blumen


TV

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Kalle der Träumer
1985 Der Fahnder

Awards And Nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Notes
2003 Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film Nowhere in Africa Nominated [3]
2002 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film Won [2]
1998 Bavarian Film Award Best Young People's Film [10]
1997 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film Beyond Silence Nominated [1]
1997 Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix
1996 Bavarian Film Award Best New Director Won [10]

Further reading

  • Jörn Glasenapp (ed.), Caroline Link. Film-Konzepte 42 (edition text + kritik, 2016).

References

  1. ^ a b "Academy Awards Database Search | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Academy Awards Database Search | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Nowhere In Africa". Golden Globes. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  4. ^ Goethe-Institut Toronto, Goethe Film Talk: Caroline Link, archived from the original on 17 December 2021, retrieved 10 December 2018
  5. ^ "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Caroline Link". womenandhollywood.com. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  6. ^ "The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  7. ^ Dinitia Smith (11 June 1998). "Families Joined or Divided by Silence; Film Shed Light on Emotional Issues of the Deaf". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2008.
  8. ^ Stefanie Zweig (23 February 2003). "Strangers in a Strange Land". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2008.
  9. ^ "Diva Directors Around the Globe: Spotlight on Caroline Link". Film International. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  10. ^ a b "Bavarian Film Prize - Previous Award Winners" (PDF). web.archive.org. 19 August 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

External links

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