Alexandra Pohlmeier

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Alexandra Pohlmeier (born May 20, 1960 in Munich ) is a German filmmaker and producer .

Life

Alexandra Pohlmeier grew up as the daughter of the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Hermann Pohlmeier and the lawyer Michaela Ecker in Munich. After graduating from high school in Göttingen, she completed her studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich in 1986 with the documentary film in between . Since then she has been working as a freelance writer, director and producer, mainly for documentary films; 1986–1998 as managing director of stromboli-film, since 1998 as Alexandra Pohlmeier film production.

As part of her documentary film work, she has led a. a. for the Federal Foundation processing life history interviews with contemporary witnesses and prepares them for historical political education. In the permanent exhibition of the Berlin Wall Memorial, which opened in 2014 , she made the films for the “Archive of Remembrance”.

Psychiatry has been her second thematic focus since the publication of her documentary film Heaven and More - On the Trail of Dorothea Buck . For the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf she created several educational films on this topic and carried out numerous training courses nationwide.

She works regularly for and with memorials and foundations.

From 2007 to 2015 she was a member of the round table for the establishment of the memorial and information site for the victims of the National Socialist “euthanasia” murders , which was inaugurated in 2014 in Berlin.

Alexandra Pohlmeier has been on the advisory board of the Dorothea Buck Foundation since 2011 .

As one of the first signatories she supports the demand of Pro Quote Regie for the appropriate distribution of jobs to women in the media industry.

She is a member of the documentary film working group .

In addition to her documentary film work, she makes experimental short films.

Filmography (selection)

Direction and script
  • 1986: in between (also editing)
  • 1987: Hojerstrand or Wierum is the world going? (also editing and production)
  • 1988: Director's workshop: Andrzej Wajda (with Bettina Wilhelm)
  • 1992: monkey love
  • 1994: Usually (also editing and production)
  • 2003: 10 years of BPE (also camera and production)
  • 2006: The particle accelerator
  • 2007: Understanding psychosis (also camera and production)
  • 2008: Heaven and more - on the trail of Dorothea Buck (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2009: 20 years of trialogue - the Hamburg psychosis seminar and its consequences (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2010: Silent (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2010: where are you taking us? (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2011: Resistance from women in the Soviet occupation zone and the early GDR (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2011: Zeitblicke (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2014: Convicted innocently - still suspect today? (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2014: The world is bigger than our need (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2016: Female political prisoners in the GDR 1955-72 (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2016: one day - one year - one tide (also camera, editing and production)
  • 2018: Female political prisoners in the GDR 1972–1989 (also camera, editing and production)

Other film work

  • 1988: Augenfische (camera), director: Kali
  • 1990: Hölderlin Comics (production management), director: Harald Bergmann
  • 1991: Der Erdnussmann (production assistant), director: Dietmar Klein
  • 1991: Last thoughts before buying a lemon (camera and production), director: Ulrich Wesselmann
  • 1993: Sacrifice witnesses (editor), director: Philip Gröning
  • 2001: Julie's Geist (Pre- & Post-Production Manager), Director: Bettina Wilhelm

Exhibitions

  • 2007 Insurmountable? - The inner-German border and its perception 1945-1990 (interviews and camera), traveling exhibition of the Marienborn Memorial
  • 2013 Tiergartenstraße 4 - The story of a difficult place as part of the theme year Destroyed Diversity, with Stefanie Endlich, Sigrid Falkenstein, Dr. Petra Fuchs , Helga Lieser, Ralf Sroka
  • 2014 Archive of Remembrance (camera and editing) for the permanent exhibition of the Berlin Wall Memorial
  • 2016 Italian military internees (camera), Topography of Terror Foundation

Awards

literature

  • The documentary and (German) television . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 24, 1988.
  • Rainer Komers: Pay attention to inner movement . In: Film & TV cameraman . tape 12 . Ulm 1988.
  • Sibylle Starkebaum: What remains of the "signs of the times" . In: Film & TV cameraman . tape 12 . Ulm 1988.
  • Swantje Siebke: father against mother . In: daily newspaper . Berlin January 21, 1989.
  • Andreas Rost: Because there are a thousand ways to the real-real . In: Rüdiger Steinmetz, Helfried Spitra (Ed.): Documentary film as a sign of the times . 2nd revised edition. Munich 1992, p. 110 .
  • Robert Burg: Heaven and more - A film about Dorothea Buck . In: The Ring . Bielefeld June 2009.
  • Ilse Eichenbrenner: They laugh last . In: Social Psychiatry . tape 126 . Psychiatrie Verlag, October 2009, ISSN  0937-2628 .
  • Johannes Schildmann: Where are you taking us? Ed .: Johannes Schildmann. Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7858-0602-9 , pp. 216 .
  • Stefanie Endlich, Sigrid Falkenstein, Helga Lieser, Ralf Sroka (eds.): Tiergartenstraße 4 - history of a difficult place . Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-165-0 , pp. 144 .
  • Judith Früh, Catalina Torres: Pictures from the time in between . The films of the HFF Munich, Volume 2. edition text + kritik, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86916-263-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship: Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship | Fields of work | Sacrifice and Remembrance | Interview series “convicted innocently”. In: www.bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Alexandra Pohlmeier Filmproduktion: Himmel und Mehr-Dorothea Buck on the trail. In: www.himmelundmehr.de. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ start - Dorothea Buck Foundation website! In: dorothea-buck-stiftung.jimdo.com. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ AGDOK - members | Alexandra Pohlmeier. In: member.agdok.de. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden test no. 18 939-S
personal data
SURNAME Pohlmeier, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker and producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich