Anna Soehring

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Anna Soehring (* 1923 in Stuttgart ; † 2010 ; born Analisa Pistor ) was a German film director .

Life

Anna Soehring spent her childhood in South America, where her father was the German envoy . After the Second World War , she first lived in Marquartstein . She married the German Hans-Jürgen Soehring . The marriage had two children. They moved to Argentina , where Anna Soehring's family owned a house, and later to Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo , where Hans-Jürgen Soehring worked as a diplomat.

After the death of her husband in 1960, Anna Soehring returned to Germany with her children, where she worked for the Republic of Niger . A few years later she began a career as a film director. Together with the Nigerien director Moustapha Alassane she shot the 1974 feature film Toula or The Spirit of Water based on a template by Boubou Hama . From the 1980s, two dozen documentaries by Anna Soehring were shown in the series Lands - People - Adventure , which took her to Niger several times, among other places.

Filmography

  • 1974: Toula or The Spirit of Water
  • 1982: Whoever invented the foreign must have been blind: At home in the Anatolian village
  • 1984: Koran, Canal and Cooperative: New and Old in a Turkish Village
  • 1984: Rivers of the Earth - The Niger (Part 1): With the Bambara and Peulh
  • 1984: Rivers of the Earth - The Niger (Part 2): Through the inland delta to Tombouktou
  • 1984: Rivers of the Earth - The Niger (Part 3): From the Sahara to the Atlantic
  • 1985: Akwanshi - Stones of the Dead: Living with the ancestors in Eastern Nigeria
  • 1987: Noah's legacy: Between Ararat and Euphrates
  • 1988: The Ancestors of the Incas (Part 1): Chavin riddle
  • 1988: The Ancestors of the Incas (Part 2): A discovery from the Moche culture of Peru
  • 1990: Time travel through Ecuador (part 1): Valdivia and the Andes Railway
  • 1990: Time travel through Ecuador (Part 2): The Jaguar Temple at Sangay
  • 1992: Nepal - between Muktinath and Kali Gandaki (Part 1): In the valley of the hundred and eight springs
  • 1992: Nepal - between Muktinath and Kali Gandaki (Part 2): The Mustang Cavemen
  • 1994: What the stones are talking about ... In the steppes of Mongolia
  • 1994: Altai, Gobi, Changai: Summer in Mongolia
  • 1996: The Haussa (Part 1): Merchants in West Africa
  • 1996: The Haussa (Part 2): Emirates in Northern Nigeria
  • 1996: The Mayan Messages: Searching for Traces in the Rainforest
  • 1997: Namibia's beautiful, barren south: farms on the edge of the Namib
  • 1998: Lakes of the World: In the Heart of Africa - Lake Chad
  • 1999: Taiwan (Part 1): Land of Contrasts
  • 1999: Taiwan (Part 2): Chinese and Native Americans
  • 2001: Gone with the desert wind (Part 1): In the Aïr Mountains
  • 2001: Gone by the desert wind (part 2): Through the sand sea of ​​the Ténéré

Fonts

  • Films in Africa and other stories . Hess, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-933117-30-4 .
  • Adventure. From the diaries of the shooting for the Südwestfunk series “Land People Adventure” . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-8511-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Harpprecht: Arletty and her German officer. A love in times of war . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-030062-1 .
  2. ^ New publication: Anna Soehring. Films in Africa and other stories . In: Africa post . No. 2 . German Africa Foundation, 2005, p. 53 .
  3. ↑ Toula or The Spirit of Water. (PDF) In: Filmdienst. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Countries - People - Adventure. Productions from 1975 - 2002 (as of February 2002). (PDF) Südwestrundfunk, accessed on November 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Soehring, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pistor, Analisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 2010