Antje Kruska

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Antje Kruska (born July 13, 1973 in Dortmund ) is a German director and screenwriter . She works regularly with Judith Keil .

Life

From 1993 onwards, Kruska studied journalism, Spanish philology and theater studies in Münster and Berlin.

In 1999, together with Judith Keil, she made her first documentary Ausfahrt Ost ... into the lives of Nico, Lenne and Tomcat . The film received a nomination for the Grimme Prize . In 2002 the documentary film Der Glanz von Berlin followed , which showed the professional and private everyday life of Berlin cleaning women. It was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002 in the section "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" and in 2003 received the Grimme Prize.

In 2009, Kruska and Keil made their first feature film with When the World Is Belonging to Us . The film celebrated its premiere at the Hof International Film Festival .

For the documentary series 20 × Brandenburg , Kruska and Keil contributed a segment in 2010 about Cameroonian asylum seekers in the eastern German province. The contribution formed the basis for the full-length documentary film Land in Sicht , which was awarded the Goethe Documentary Film Prize in 2013 and which was released in German cinemas in January 2014.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Exit East ... into the lives of Nico, Lenne and Tomcat (TV documentary)
  • 1999: Exit East (documentary)
  • 2002: The Shine of Berlin (Documentary)
  • 2005: Dancing with Myself (documentary)
  • 2009: When the world is ours
  • 2010: 20 × Brandenburg (documentary, segment "Stranded")
  • 2013: Land in Sight (Documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Antje Kruska at filmportal.de, accessed on February 19, 2014
  2. ↑ Judith Keil & Antje Kruska ( memento from February 18, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at rbb-online.de, accessed on February 19, 2014
  3. ^ Prize winners - 41st Duisburg Film Week . Retrieved November 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kruska, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany