Beate Thalberg
Beate Thalberg (born August 25, 1967 in Altmark , Germany ) is a German - Austrian film and theater director and screenwriter .
Life
Beate Thalberg grew up in a socially committed family with many children in the GDR . As a gymnast and track and field athlete, she regularly took part in national sports competitions until she was 18. After the age of 12, she began to show an increased interest in the theater and, as a child and adolescent, has since attended performances in Berlin, Magdeburg, Schwerin, Halle, Potsdam and Leipzig.
After graduating from high school in 1986, Beate Thalberg studied "Directing and Dramaturgy in Theater" from 1988 to 1992 at the Hans Otto Theater Academy, today the Leipzig Conservatory for Music and Theater . She received one-to-one tuition in the subjects of actor management, lighting and equipment as well as dramaturgy. Beate Thalberg experienced the political change in the GDR in Leipzig, where she studied. She has participated since the first silent protests in January and July 1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall she got involved in setting up newspaper editorial offices and television stations in East Germany, and she also worked on independent theater projects. At the end of 1992 Beate Thalberg went to Vienna, Austria, where she has lived since then.
Act
Beate Thalberg has been writing screenplays and directing documentaries, film essays and television plays since the mid-1990s. Her stories move in often repressed, socio-politically explosive zones, which she tracks down by illuminating the individual fates and decisions of individual people. She usually links motifs from the past with current life stories. Family secrets, borderline situations and transitional experiences are common topics.
Beate Thalberg's films have been shown on television and in cinemas in many European countries as well as in the USA, Canada, Australia and Israel.
Theater projects took her to the independent scene in Vienna and Berlin as well as to the Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
Films (selection)
- 2020: The Great World Theater - Salzburg and its Festival . (Script and direction) With Florian Teichtmeister as servant Franz Swatosch. Voices: Johannes Silberschneider ( Max Reinhardt ), Petra Morzé ( Anna von Mildenburg ), Marie-Luise Stockinger ( Helene Thimig ), Miguel Herz-Kestranek ( Hugo von Hofmannsthal ), Robert Meyer ( Richard Strauss ), Paula Schramm ( Margarete Wallmann ), Jan Bülow ( Gottfried von One ). Documentary television play for ARTE ORF Bayerischer Rundfunk . Camera: Anna Hawliczek
- I, behind me . Experimental feature film based on three, four tones, nothing more. Eleven calls from Andrea Winkler , published by Zsolnay Verlag . Main role: Martina Luef. In post production. Camera: Walter Reichl.
- 2019: Get out of the corset! - Three women and their way to the right to vote (screenplay and direction) Documentary play with Anna Brüggemann ( Clara Zetkin ), Katharina Haudum ( Adelheid Popp ) and Marie-Luise Stockinger ( Hildegard Burjan ). Camera: Matthias Grunsky
- 2016: The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her hotel , documentary film about the legendary Vienna Hotel Sacher and its operator as well as about the Vienna Ringstrasse Society around 1900. Nikolaus Geyrhalter Film production for Arte and ORF (screenplay and direction)
- Elisabeth Heller - The Woman of the Century Documentary about the 98-year-old mother of André Heller ; Elisabeth Heller, André Heller, Fritz Heller, Michael Haneke , Gert Voss and Albina Bauer. Camera: Walter Reichl. WR Film Wien for ORF (image editing, interviews, dramaturgy), together with Isolde von Mersi (idea, interviews)
- My time will come - Gustav Mahler in the memories of Natalie Bauer-Lechner documentary play with Petra Morzé , Robert Ritter , Adina Vetter , Stefan Leonhardsberger and many others, camera: Stephan Mussil . Tellux Munich / Vienna for ORF / SF / BR / 3sat (script and direction)
- The Joel files aka The Joel Files with Billy Joel , Alexander Joel , Howard Joel, Johannes Neckermann, Julia Neckermann-Rössler, Markus Neckermann, Lukas Neckermann u. a. DoRo Vienna for Arte , 3sat , WDR , ZDF , ORF , ABC, PBS (script and direction)
- Across the threshold - the artist's fear of appearing with Ferruccio Furrlanetto , Annette Dasch , Wir sind Helden , Julian Rachlin and many others ORF (screenplay and direction)
- Some blue leaves are red - art and madness with Gerhard Roth, Johann Garber, Adolf Frohner , Claudia Dichter, Johann Korec, Arnulf Rainer , Johann Hauser, August Walla and many more, 3sat / ORF (screenplay and direction)
- Die Ware Kunst with Jeff Koons , Stella Kay, Tobias Meyer , Simon de Pury, Gerd Harry Lybke , ORF (screenplay and direction)
- The secret of Lebensborn with Horst Martin Widdershoven, Georg Lilienthal, Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Cultfilm Wien for ORF (screenplay and direction)
- Vienna Electronica with Richard Dorfmeister , Peter Kruder , Electric Indigo , Patrick Pulsinger , Bernhard Lang , ORF, Bayern Alpha (script and direction together with Barbara Pichler)
- Ideal and Reality - Photography Pioneers with Peter Coeln, Monika Faber, Patrick Nagy, ORF / Bayern Alpha (screenplay and direction)
- Who was the third man? - A search for traces 50 years later TV documentary about the making of the cult film The Third Man . With Marcel Prawy , Anton Karas , Georg Markus 3SAT / ORF (director)
Participation in festivals and prizes
- Golden Rose of Montreux and Special Prize of the City of Montreux, The Joel Files
- Romy Austria for The Joel Files
- Romy Austria for The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her hotel
- Nomination of the Grimme Prize , Germany, for The Joel Files
- “Silver Award” and “Certificate for Creative Excellence”, Videoart Festival Chicago, USA, for Who was the third man?
- Sundance Film Festival , Utah, USA
- The New York Jewish Film Festival
- Jewish Film Festival Vienna
- Warszawski Festiwal Filmów o Tematyce Żydowskiej, Poland
- The Palm Beach International Film Festival , USA
Web links
- Beate Thalberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beate Thalberg at Crew United
- Portrait on ORF ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festival: TV film for the 100th anniversary. January 10, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ 20 02 2019 at 18:22 by Isabella Wallnöfer: Women who fought for their rights. February 20, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ My time will come - Gustav Mahler in the memories of Natalie Bauer-Lechner (2009-2010) . crew-united.com. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ↑ Gustav Mahler, a correction , on diepresse.com, accessed on May 20, 2020
- ↑ Julia Goldman: Stranger No More. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Stranger No More , at jewishweek.timesofisrael.com, accessed May 20, 2020
- ↑ Enabling the way to dialogue , at wienerzeitung.at, accessed on May 20, 2020
- ↑ christoph.silber: Hollywood glamor: the winners of the ROMY Academy. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Romy Prize for “Das Sacher” and “Toni Erdmann”. April 21, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b DoRo documentation "The Neckermann / Joel Files" at three US festivals , on derstandard.at, accessed on May 20, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Thalberg, Beate |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian film and theater director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altmark , Germany |