Beate Thalberg

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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)

Participation in festivals and prizes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festival: TV film for the 100th anniversary. January 10, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 20 02 2019 at 18:22 by Isabella Wallnöfer: Women who fought for their rights. February 20, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ My time will come - Gustav Mahler in the memories of Natalie Bauer-Lechner (2009-2010) . crew-united.com. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Gustav Mahler, a correction , on diepresse.com, accessed on May 20, 2020
  5. ↑ Julia Goldman: Stranger No More. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Stranger No More , at jewishweek.timesofisrael.com, accessed May 20, 2020
  7. ↑ Enabling the way to dialogue , at wienerzeitung.at, accessed on May 20, 2020
  8. ↑ christoph.silber: Hollywood glamor: the winners of the ROMY Academy. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Romy Prize for “Das Sacher” and “Toni Erdmann”. April 21, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b DoRo documentation "The Neckermann / Joel Files" at three US festivals , on derstandard.at, accessed on May 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Thalberg, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian film and theater director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Altmark , Germany