Birgitta Ashoff
Birgitta Ashoff (born December 1, 1948 in Essen-Bredeney ) is a German film director , screenwriter and journalist . She lives in Berlin and Rome .
Life
Birgitta Ashoff completed her studies in German and geography at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . She completed her second degree in theater studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna , where she received her doctorate in 1978. Already during her studies she presented her own weekly radio program "Wednesday Journal" for Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. At the same time she began her journalistic work as an author for the Basler Nachrichten, from 1980 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Above all, she wrote artist portraits and travel reports for the FAZ magazine and the FAZ supplement “Pictures and Times”. In addition to her work as a feature writer (with Yves Montand and Nino Rota, among others ) in the radio culture department of Sender Freies Berlin , she has worked as a director and screenwriter for ARD since 1974, and later also for arte. Encouraged by encounters with the directors Louis Malle and Federico Fellini , about whom she made a film portrait (ARD / NDR) in 1985, she decided to work primarily as a freelance director.
She interviewed and shot a. a. with Irmgard Keun, Herbert von Karajan, Jorge Luis Borges, Nina Berberova, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Giorgio Bassani, Alberto Moravia, Jorge Semprun, Philippe Jaccottet, Gisèle Freund, John Berger, John Updike, John Irving, Steve Reich, Pierre Boulez , Gae Aulenti, Renzo Piano, Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini, Frank O. Gehry, Lucinda Childs and Paul Auster.
To date, more than 150 documentaries have been made, which have mainly been shown on television, but also at international festivals.
Filmography (selection)
Portraits
- 2014: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The sky, the sea
- 2013: Daham in the Rockies
- 2013: The ice cream dealer Thomas Bartu
- 2012: Georgia O'Keeffe - Desert Beauty / Les toiles du désert (arte)
- 2011: Susan Sontag - thinker and diva / Une diva engagée (arte)
- 2011: Ellsworth Kelly - Abstract Beauty
- 2011: Nils Holger Moormann - With rough edges
- 2010: Armando Ruinelli - luck on the edge
- 2009: Anselm Grün - Portrait of the Benedictine monk
- 2008: Andrea Palladio - Built Beauty in Veneto
- 2008: Annette Beaufays - Between velvet and silk
- 2007: Wolfgang Joop - shine without glitter
- 2005: James Salter - The Myth of Mont Blanc
- 2004: Susan Sontag - The lover of the volcano
- 2004: Tamara de Lempicka - elegance and eroticism of Art Deco
- 2003: Paul Klee - The blue embers
- 2003: Amin Maalouf - From the ports of the Levant
- 2001: Einar Karason - portrait of the Icelandic writer
- 2001: Verdi's heaven
- 2000: Adriaan van Dis - A childhood in Holland
- 1999: James Ensor - Masks, Shells and the Sea
- 1999: The Mona Lisa's smile
- 1998: Bernini and Borromini - The rivals
- 1998: Hector Berlioz - romantic and rebel
- 1998: Goethe's Arcadia
- 1997: Katherine Mansfield - portrait of the New Zealand writer
- 1997: The other dome - Paolo Portoghesi and the new mosque of Rome
- 1995: Gustave Caillebotte painter - patron millionaire
- 1995: Mario Botta - light inside
- 1994: Paul Verlaine - Your heart is a landscape
- 1993: The philosopher Simone Weil - Beauty, unhappiness and love
- 1992: Anna Akhmatova - portrait of the Russian poet
- 1991: Infernal companion Arthur Rimbaud - A search for traces in the Ardennes
- 1990: Emilio Vedova - portrait of the Venetian artist
- 1990: Walter Pichler - sculptor and builder
- 1989: Joseph Brodsky - He didn't look back when he left
- 1988: Luigi Nono - portrait of the Venetian composer
- 1987: Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault - The Children of Olympus
- 1986: Wolfgang Hildesheimer - tired asleep, I stay awake
- 1985: Italo Svevo and Trieste
- 1985: Portrait of Frederico Fellini (revised 1993)
- 1984: Isaac B. Singer - Lost in America
- 1984: Philippe Soupault - The last surrealist
- 1983: The draftsman Edward Gorey - Into the black heart of things
- 1983: Meredith Monk - New Tones from the New World
- 1981: Carla Bley - A portrait of the American composer
- 1981: Lotte Reiniger - The woman behind the shadows
- 1979: The poet Ernst Meister
Cinematic approaches to cities and landscapes
- 1976: Between tanks and thyme - In the Camargue
- 1986: Wales - The North
- 1987: Cambridge
- 1988: The Champagne
- 1989: 100 years of the Eiffel Tower
- 1990: London's Country
- 1990: Weimar - Goethe, Schiller, Herder and the others ...
- 1991: Cultural landscapes around Potsdam
- 1993: Bordeaux and the Gironde
- 1993: In Poitou and along the Atlantic coast
- 1993: In Savoy - with John Berger
- 1993: Leipzig - New signals for Mercury and the muses
- 1993: Lyon and the Rhône Valley
- 1994: With Tucholsky in the Pyrenees
- 1995: The Île de France - Under the spell of Paris
- 1995: The painterly landscapes of the Île-de-France
- 1996: The Dauphiné - journeys to art
- 1998: The Saale - Portrait of a river
- 1999: The Meuse - portrait of a river
- 1999: Milan - journeys to art
- 1999: Palermo - The Wonderful Disaster (co-author Toti Palma)
- 1999: Palermo - In the Land of the Leopard (co-author Toti Palma)
- 2000: The Drôme - land of light and lavender
- 2000: Rotterdam - Manhattan on the Maas
- 2001: Syracuse - The New York of Antiquity
- 2001: Taos, Texas, Tyrol - miracles of silence
- 2002: Campania - In the Gulf of Salerno
- 2002: Sicily's African Sea - On Via del Sale
- 2003: At the Sea of Light - In the Gulf of Naples
- 2003: Bordeaux and the Bordelais - At the sea of wine
- 2004: On Sicily's Cyclops Coast
- 2004: Guest of the gods - From Mycenae to Epidaurus
- 2005: In the wild west of Sicily - On the Via del Sale
- 2005: Longing for the South - Images of Italy from Goethe's time
- 2006: Biarritz and the Basque Coast
- 2006: Oriental Soap - In Aleppo, Tripoli and Beirut
- 2007: On Dalmatia's light coasts
- 2007: With Sisi in Vienna - Between Monarchy and Modernity
- 2007: Sicily - A Grand Tour from Taormina to Trapani
- 2008: In the Vienna Woods - secrets and pleasures
- 2008: Saint-Tropez - A myth lives on
- 2008: Vienna and the modern age of Biedermeier
- 2009: The Strait of Messina - Between Sicily and Calabria
- 2010: Rimini - a dream
Publications
- November 1996: The Marquise's rooms smell enchanting (FAZ-Magazin)
- January 1996: Glowing Confusion - The poor, rich poet Paul Verlaine (FAZ)
- August 1993: Suffered from all ailments in the world - On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the philosopher Simone Weil (FAZ)
- November 1981: I believe more in fairy tales than in newspapers. An encounter with the film pioneer Lotte Reiniger (FAZ)
- 1981 or later: On the freedom of the reading gaze. About John Berger , foreword to the collection of essays and essays The Life of Images or the Art of Seeing by John Berger
publication
- Birgitta Ashoff: The Basel theaters under Werner Düggelin in the cultural profile of Switzerland (1968-1975), dissertation University of Vienna 1978, Google Books
Web links
- Birgitta Ashoff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- There in the Rockies: http://issuu.com/bayerischerrundfunk/docs/14_brm_u4_online
- The ice cream dealer Thomas Bartu: http://www.dw.de/dokumentationen-und-reportagen-der-eisdealer-thomas-bartu-2014-05-17/e-17586550-9801 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-RTvvvEchw
- Joseph Brodsky - Scheiden in Venetian: http://www.zeit.de/1991/46/scheiden-auf-venezianisch
- John Berger - We live with short breath: http://www.zeit.de/1991/24/wir-leben-mit-kurzem-atem
- Anna Akhmatova - Anna of all Russia: http://www.zeit.de/1989/26/anna-von-ganz-russland
- Joseph Brodsky - Heimat, I don't think about that at all ...: http://www.zeit.de/1987/45/heimat-daran-denke-ich-ueberhaupt-nicht
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashoff, Birgitta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, screenwriter and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essen Bredeney |