Anna Hoffmann (director)

Anna Hoffmann ( Russian Анна Гоффман; born July 29, 1980 in the Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh-German film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Anna Hoffmann, who came from a family of German origin , moved from the Kazakh SSR to the Federal Republic in 1990 - one year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union . From 2001 onwards she studied film and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and from 2002 to 2008 she studied directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, specializing in documentary film . During her studies she was assistant director to Frank Coraci in 2002 and to Volker Schlöndorff in 2006 .

Anna Hoffmann has received several awards for her film work, for example in 2007 with the Kazakh Film Prize and in 2008 with the Russian German Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg for her documentary Which Direction Is Going Home , in which she questions the identity of Russian Germans, their history and Present. In 2009 she was honored with the German Short Film Award for Household Help.

In her three-part documentary Marry me, Germany! She accompanies three Ukrainian au pair girls in Germany. The film was broadcast on SWR TV in 2012 and on Phoenix TV in May 2014 .

The film drama Poka - means Tschüss in Russian is Anna Hoffmann's first feature film, which she directed and wrote the screenplay with Oliver Haller. It premiered in competition at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in January 2014 .

Prices

• 2007: Kazakh Film Prize
• 2008: Russian German Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2008: Caligari Sponsorship Award
• 2009: German Short Film Award
• 2014: Award at the 24th Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival for "Poka - means goodbye in Russian"
• 2014: Prize for the best youth film U18 at the 24th Festival of Eastern European Films Cottbus for "Poka - means goodbye in Russian"

Filmography

• 2014 Poka (Director, Screenplay)
• 2012 Marry me, Germany
• 2010 Born ready (director)
• 2009/2010 The Household Help (Director, Screenplay)
• 2009 Seatomorrow (producer)
• 2006 Which direction are you going home? (Director, screenplay)

Web links

• Anna Hoffmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography ( memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
2. ^ Baden-Württemberg Russian German Culture Prize, The Prize Winners, SRR International, October 16, 2008 . Retrieved August 18, 2014.
3. ^ German Short Film Award 2009 deutscher-kurzfilmpreis.de. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
4. ↑ SWR Presse, January 9, 2012
5. ↑ Marry me, Germany! Film by Anna Hoffmann , ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Phoenix (TV station) | Phoenix, May 2014
6. ↑ Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize >> POKA - MEETS GOODBYE IN RUSSIAN, Saarbrücken 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize 2014, Films, Poka , Saarländische Rundfunk, January 21, 2014 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Sponsorship award at the 24th Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Art Festival, DEFA Foundation ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.