Astrid Schult

Astrid Schult (born April 23, 1979 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German documentary filmmaker who has won several film awards.

Life and work

Schult grew up in Niddatal - Assenheim . She was a student at the Waldorf School in Bad Nauheim until 1995 , and graduated from the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin-Dahlem in 1998 . In 1998–1999 she did a six-month internship in Canada, during which time she worked for DCTV , a local broadcaster in Vancouver .

In 1999 she worked as an EB assistant for the digital film company Electronic Pictures in Berlin. She produced articles for ARTE , BR and SWR, among others , mostly in the field of political reporting. In 2000, a six-month traineeship at FGV Schmidle followed. There she made material and camera assistance in television and cinema productions, for example for “Edel und Stark”, “The lawyer and his guest” and the crime series “ Sperling ”. From 2000 to 2002, Schult worked for various other television production companies. Since 2002 she has been working as a self-employed camera assistant. At the same time, she enrolled for a degree in history and literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 2003 he started studying camera at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . From 2005 on, she completed her main studies in directing / documentary film. She graduated with a diploma in 2009. In 2006, her film Zirkus is nich earned her an invitation to the Berlinale and several documentary film awards. The documentary is about the everyday life of eight-year-old Dominik from Berlin-Hellersdorf, who has to take on a lot of responsibility for his age in order to help his single mother. The first broadcast of the 45-minute film took place on WDR in the series People Up Close in spring 2007.

Her graduation film for obtaining the diploma in 2009, The Inner War , was premiered at the Hof Film Festival 2009. It earned her a lot of attention with a special award at the 2010 Adolf Grimme Awards. She received the VG Eberhard Fechner grant Picture art .

Astrid Schult lives and works as a freelance director and camerawoman in Berlin.

The internal war

This documentary film deals with the trauma of American soldiers in the US military hospital in Landstuhl . Schult described this place as a “parallel world”, which is hardly noticed in Germany. It was "very difficult" to get a filming permit. It was given some conditions and a soldier reported that he had “received a media briefing” before the interview. Most returnees are "broken, for their whole life", said Schult in an interview in April 2010. Suicide and divorce rates are "very high" and many would "no longer find their way back into society". Among other things, the film was shown in April 2010 as part of the Achtung Festival in Berlin.

style

The sensitive handling of protagonists in difficult life situations and the intensive interviews outline their personal signature. This becomes clear not only in the description of the not exactly carefree everyday life of the child of a single parent in the circus , but also in the case of the US soldiers psychologically traumatized by the war experience in The Inner War . Schult also wrote the script for both productions.

Filmography

• 2004: Kaspar's Cross, 10 min., (Director, camera)
• 2005: The Schlagmann, 15 min., (Camera)
• 2005: Spirit of Cities, 30 min., (Director)
• 2005: Punk Congress, 45 min., (Camera)
• 2006/2007: Gysi and I, (camera)
• 2006/2007: Circus is nich, 45 min., (Screenplay, director)
• 2009: The Inner War, 72 min., (Screenplay, director)
• 2011: Die Vermittler, 73 min., (Screenplay, director)
• 2012: I Want My Country Back- The Tea Party, 82 min. (Screenplay, director)
• 2012: I want my country back - The Tea Party, 60 min. (Screenplay, director)
• 2013: Sometime it's over - 30 min. (Screenplay, direction with co-author Gunther Merz)
• 2013/2014: The last chapter I & II, 2 × 30 min. (Script, direction with co-author Gunther Merz)
• 2015: Character assassination - When rumors turn into a nightmare, 45 min. (Screenplay, direction with co-author Gunther Merz)
• 2016: Winterjagd, feature film debut, 75 min. (Script, co-writer, director)
• 2017: The Last Traces - The Story of Ernst and Ernst, 45 min. (Screenplay, director)

Awards (selection)

• Micki Moore Award, Best Feature Film Directed by a Woman for Winter Chase Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2018
• Emerging Filmmaker Jury Award for Winter Hunt, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2018
• Scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart 2015
• Berlin Art Prize , Film and Media Art 2012
• Eberhard Fechner scholarship from VG Bild-Kunst as a special prize of the Grimme Prize 2010 for The Inner War (script / director)
• Invitation to the 57th Berlin Film Festival (Perspective German Cinema) 2007 for Circus is nich
• Documentary Film Award - Sehsuechte, Best Newcomer Film for Circus is not 2007
• New Berlin Film Award for Circus is not 2007
• Filmbewertungsstelle FBW rating: Particularly valuable for circus is not 2007
• Scholarship Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2015

Web links

• Astrid Schult in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• You don't have to tell everything. Interview of the taz from February 10, 2007 (about the film Circus is nich. )
• Offener Kanal Berlin from April 17th, 2010: Video interview with Astrid Schult

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Everyday (war) life in the middle of Germany: Astrid Schult's documentary is running on ZDF today. ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 983 kB) In: Wetterauer Zeitung . December 14, 2009.  
2. ↑ Film portal: Biographical entry at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival (catalog) ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Inner War - A documentary by Astrid Schult. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Film Academy: Entry hl-Diplomanden, A. Schult 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ 3sat : The Inner War Documentary by Astrid Schult , accessed on July 6, 2010
6. ↑ Carolin Ströbele: 'Most of those who come back are broken'. In: Zeit Online. April 16, 2010, accessed January 28, 2018 . 
7. ↑ The Little TV Game : About the Director
8. ^ ZDF : Yearbook 2009: Television Awards and Awards. (Section: The Little TV Game)