Barbara Albert (director)

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Barbara Albert (2017)

Barbara Albert (born September 22, 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian film director , screenwriter and producer .

Life

In 1991 she began studying film directing at the Vienna Film Academy under Lukas Stepanik . Films that she felt influenced by at the time included Aki Kaurismäki's The Girl from the Match Factory and Jane Campion's Sweetie and An angel at my table . The director and screenwriter's stories " are always a mixture of the experienced, the narrated and the invented ".

She made her feature film directorial debut in 1999 with Nordrand , in which she puts solidarity between women at the center of the story. The film deals with domestic violence, abortion and the realities of life in Vienna in the 1990s that were shaped by migration and the Balkan War. This film received numerous international awards, including at the Venice Biennale , which not only put her and her film, but also young Austrian filmmakers in general, in the national and international limelight. Since international awards for Austrian films were still exceptional at that time, and no Austrian productions have received awards in Venice for decades, the film also has a certain pioneering function. The film is an example of a turnaround in Austrian filmmaking, which in the following years increasingly received awards at international film festivals.

1999 was also the founding year of coop99 , which she founded and runs together with Jessica Hausner , Antonin Svoboda and Martin Gschlacht . This gave the four filmmakers independence from the opinion of producers, but not from government funding. Barbara Albert is a strong advocate of state film funding , as “ this is the only way European film can survive alongside the American mainstream. Acceptance and commercial success of European cinema can only be achieved by changing the public's awareness, and this will only happen if a wide variety of European films can be seen in cinema and television! The state must create the basis for this. "

Albert with Karl Markovics and Josef Aichholzer (2011)

In 2009 Barbara Albert founded the Academy of Austrian Films together with other Austrian filmmakers .

Her film The Living, starring Anna Fischer, celebrated its world premiere in September 2012 in the competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival . The film processes its own experiences: Albert is the granddaughter of an SS man who u. a. worked as a security guard in Auschwitz concentration camp .

In 2013 she was appointed professor for "Feature Film Directing for Cinema and Television" at the Babelsberg Film University. She shares the position with Andreas Kleinert , who has been teaching at the university since 2006.

Her feature film Licht (also Mademoiselle Paradis ) was invited to the Toronto International Film Festival 2017 in the Platform competition and to the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2017 in the main competition for the Golden Shell .

Barbara Albert lives with the director Titus Selge and their son in Berlin. She is the sister of Veronika Albert .

Filmography

  • 1993: Nachtschwalben (short film; director)
  • 1993: The Fruit of Your Body (short film; director)
  • 1998: Sunspots (short film; director and screenplay)
  • 1998: Slidin '- everything colorful and wonderful (drama; co-director)
  • 1998: Somewhere else (documentary; director)
  • 1999: Nordrand (drama; director and screenplay)
  • 2001: Zur Lage (documentary; direction and screenplay with Michael Glawogger)
  • 2003: Evil Cells (drama; director and screenplay)
  • 2006: Slumming (drama / comedy; screenplay; director: Michael Glawogger )
  • 2006: Fallen (drama; director and screenplay)
  • 2012: The Living (Drama; Direction, Screenplay, Production)
  • 2017: Light (feature film; director)

Awards

Barbara Albert at the Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz 2010.

A selection of awards and nominations for Barbara Albert, sorted by films:

Web links

Commons : Barbara Albert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "The future of Austrian film is female ..." (PDF file; 689 kB) - A presentation by 10 cinema directors and screenwriters
  2. ^ Academy of Austrian Films: Press release The New Austrian Film Prize (PDF; 102 kB), July 2010
  3. ↑ Die Lebenden / The Dead and the Living sansebastianfestival.com, accessed on May 28, 2013
  4. ↑ http://www.otz.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Mein-Grossvater-war-SS-Mann-Oesterreicherin-mit-Die-Lebenden-in-Thueringen-606723093
  5. ↑ Barbara Albert becomes professor at the HFF “Konrad Wolf” , berliner-filmfestivals.de , March 27, 2013
  6. ↑ Barbara Albert with "Light" in Toronto and San Sebastian . Article dated August 4, 2017, accessed August 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ http://www.otz.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Mein-Grossvater-war-SS-Mann-Oesterreicherin-mit-Die-Lebenden-in-Thueringen-606723093
  8. ↑ Stefan Grissemann: Barbara Albert: "In the meantime I am no longer ashamed." (Interview with Barbara Albert about "The Living") In: Profile. November 17, 2012 , accessed March 30, 2013
  9. ↑ Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied announces the winners of the Austrian Art Prize 2012 on December 27, 2012, accessed on December 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director, author and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria