Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

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Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (born July 27, 1936 in Vogtsdorf near Opole , present-day Poland ) is a German film editor .

Life

The daughter of the bank clerk Georg Mainka and his wife Hildegard, née Farbowski, lived with her parents in Ansbach after fleeing their homeland in 1945 . From 1946 to 1951 she received ballet lessons and after secondary school in 1952 attended a private film school in Wiesbaden , where she was trained as an editor.

She practiced for five months in a copy factory and began as an assistant editor in the production of short documentaries. Since 1955 she lived in Munich, where she was the second assistant to the editor Anna Höllering at Bavaria Film , where she was involved in several feature films. Oskar Werner's only film director (under the pseudonym "Erasmus Nothnagel"), the television production A certain Judas , became her first independent job as an editor in 1958.

In 1959 she met Edgar Reitz , for whom she edited several early short documentaries. Reitz passed her on to Alexander Kluge , with whom she worked for years and made important films of the New German Cinema such as Farewell to Yesterday and The Artists in the Big Top: At a Glance . In addition to editing, she also regularly participated in the overall conception of the films. She also had a long-term collaboration with Werner Herzog . Between 1968 and 1986 she worked on twenty of his films, including Aguirre, The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo .

At the Ulm School of Design , she supported students and graduates with film assembly . When the phase of the New German Film came to an end, she withdrew into private life out of a lack of interest in further film projects.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1975: Film tape in gold (cut) for everyone for himself and God against everyone and In danger and greatest need, the middle path brings death
  • 1978: Filmband in Gold (film conception) for Germany in autumn in the team

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