Bettina Blümner

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Bettina Blümner (born September 5, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) is a German director and screenwriter. She lives in Berlin today .

Life

From 1998 to 1999 she studied media culture and design at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 1999 to 2004 he studied directing (focus on scenic film) at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg and with an exchange program at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba . During this time she made some short films such as Forever Young (1999), Summer Sun (2001), Wash and Go (2003) and The Chain (2004). The short film La Vida Dulcereceived the rating "particularly valuable". This 2005 film is about Mother's Day customs in Cuba. It was shown at the Münster Film Festival in 2005 and was awarded the sponsorship award. In 2006, Bettina Blümner's short film Naked City was released about the artist Pia Dehne , who accompanied Blümner through her everyday work.

In 2007 Bettina Blümner made her feature film debut with the film Prinzessinnenbad . It is about the lives of the three 15-year-old girls Klara, Mina and Tanutscha, who grow up in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . For this film, Bettina Blümner received the Dialogue en Perspective Prize at the Berlinale 2007 , as well as the German Film Prize 2008 . Out of conviction, Blümner always shoots documentaries between feature films. In the television documentary Half Moon Truths (2014, 90 minutes) she showed the background of the German-Turkish psychologist Kazım Erdoğan and his first self-help group for men of Turkish origin, the father group “ Aufbruch Neukölln”. For her 81-minute documentary milieu study Parcours d'Amour , she researched and filmed in ten dance ball houses in Paris and talked about older people whose center of life is the dance café and whose passion is dancing. As part of the Wim Wenders scholarship for young filmmakers from Germany, the director received 30,000 euros for the realization of the feature film Hello my friend , a coming-of-age story by three German students in Cuba.

Blümner is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography

  • 1998: Jonny, Oldie & Spoon
  • 1999: King of Swing
  • 1999: King of Sex
  • 2000: East-West is stark
  • 2001: summer sun
  • 2002: Wash & go
  • 2004: the chain
  • 2005: La vida dulce
  • 2005: 13 + 15
  • 2006: Naked City
  • 2007: Princess bath
  • 2010: Yesterday, today, the day after tomorrow - 20xBrandenburg
  • 2013: Shards Park
  • 2014: Crescent Truths (TV Documentary)
  • 2014: Parcours d'Amour (cinema documentary)
  • 2016: Binny and the Ghost (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2017: SOKO Munich (TV series, 2 episodes)

Theater productions

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete information on the film Prinzessinnenbad , accessed on April 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Self-Help Group for Turkish Men: Crescent Truths , accessed on April 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bettina Blümner's documentary "Parcours d'Amour" Life is a tea dance , Der Tagesspiegel from June 2, 2015, accessed April 29, 2017
  4. ^ Wim Wenders grant awarded for four projects ( Memento from May 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), WDR from September 28, 2016
  5. ↑ Bettina Blümner. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on April 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Blümner filmed Alina Bronsky's novel about a precarious girlie
  7. ↑ Villa Massimo | Bettina Blümner and Tobias Müller. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Blümner, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf