Carmen Tartarotti

Carmen Tartarotti (born October 5, 1950 in Latsch ) is a German filmmaker .

Life

Carmen Tartarotti was born on October 5th, 1950 in Latsch and spent her youth in the Vinschgau in South Tyrol (Italy). From 1963 to 1971 she attended the women's high school in Merano . After graduating from high school, she studied German and politics from 1972 to 1973 in Marburg and then in Frankfurt am Main . During her studies she worked on various projects with Italian guest workers and political emigrants. After completing her master's degree in 1978, she did an internship at the Hessischer Rundfunk and worked as a freelancer in the television culture department. With a grant from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), she made her first experimental short film in 1980, "Kribus-Krabus-Domine". The film marked the beginning of her independent activity as a filmmaker. In 2019 it was presented as part of the retrospective “Self-determined. Perspectives from women filmmakers ”will be shown at the Berlinale. Carmen Tartarotti works as a freelance writer, director and producer in Frankfurt, Meran and Berlin.

Awards and nominations

2016 Best Documentary Award for We Can't Dream Bright Skies Film Festival "Bergamo Filmmeeting", I-Bergamo
2014 Award for the best documentary for We Can't Dream of Bright Skies Film Festival " Der neue Heimatfilm ", A-Freistadt
2014 Audience Award of the City of Bolzano for We can't dream bright skies
2010 German Film Prize nomination for Writing and Silence
2010 Lichter Film Prize for Writing and Silence
2010 German Film Critics' Award nomination for Writing and Silence
2012 Filmplus Bild-Kunst Schnitt Preis nomination for Writing and Silence
2011 'LOLA @ Berlinale' with writing and silence
2010 “Our medals” Tagesspiegel Berlin silver for writing and silence
2009 Hessian Film Prize for Writing and Silence
1993 International Biennale film + arc.graz Arch + Filmstein Gold for Paradiso del Cevedale
1992 “ Walther von der Vogelweide ” sponsorship award for Paradiso del Cevedale
1991 Film Prize of the City of Munich : “ LiteraVision ” for 1 pile of flowers 1 pile of shoes
1980 Rating: particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Evaluation Agency (FBW) for Kribus-Krabus-Domine

Works

We Can't Dream Bright Skies, 2014 documentary
Writing and silence - the writer Friederike Mayröcker , documentary, 2009
Between Grant and Misery, documentary, 2006
Video installation in the Ahrntal / South Tyrol mining museum , 2000
Miracles over miracles, film series in 11 episodes with the art historian Leo Andergassen , 1996
Absolutely lovely - On the myth of the spa town of Merano, documentary film, 1994
Paradiso del Cevedale, documentary, 1993
1 pile of flowers 1 pile of shoes, film portrait about F. Mayröcker, co-director: Bodo Hell, 1989
When the swallows move, screenplay for a children's film, 1988
The art is directed against the body of the artist, film portrait, co-director: Ria Endres, 1987
Every hair throws its shadow, TV film for Hessischer Rundfunk, 1985
Da capo al fine, short film, 1983
Kribus-Krabus-Domine, short film, 1980

Web links

official homepage
Homepage for the film Writing and Silence
filmportal.de , Carmen Tartarotti
dok.at , Carmen Tartarotti

Individual evidence

↑ Press release on the Berlinale 2019 Retrospective 2019: “Self-determined. Perspectives from women filmmakers ” . November 13, 2018.
↑ Ulrike Draesner: "One person too much" . In: StadtkinoZeitung . No. 478 . Vienna April 2010, p. 3 .
↑ carmen-tartarotti.de , We cannot dream the bright sky
↑ Interview with Carmen Tartarotti in: Josef Lederle, Simon Linder and Sophia Michalzik: Long before you, long after you. In: kathisch.de. July 9, 2015, accessed December 5, 2018 .
↑ Josef Lederle: We cannot dream the bright sky. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
↑ Interview with Carmen Tartarotti by Kunigunde Weissenegger: Amazingly undeterred: Carmen Tartarotti, filmmaker. In: http://franzmagazine.com . December 15, 2014, accessed December 5, 2018 .
↑ Interview with Carmen Tartarotti by Renate Mumelter: Carmen Tartarotti. In: Alpenrosen, annual journal for women's culture 2011, e-paper, ed. v. Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, German Culture Department, pp. 14-17. March 3, 2011, accessed December 29, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tartarotti, Carmen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	5th October 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Latsch , Italy

[1] Press release on the Berlinale 2019 Retrospective 2019: “Self-determined. Perspectives from women filmmakers ” . November 13, 2018.

[2] Ulrike Draesner: "One person too much" . In: StadtkinoZeitung . No. 478 . Vienna April 2010, p. 3 .

[3] rmen-tartarotti.de , We cannot dream the bright sky

[4] Interview with Carmen Tartarotti in: Josef Lederle, Simon Linder and Sophia Michalzik: Long before you, long after you. In: kathisch.de. July 9, 2015, accessed December 5, 2018 .

[5] Josef Lederle: We cannot dream the bright sky. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .

[6] Interview with Carmen Tartarotti by Kunigunde Weissenegger: Amazingly undeterred: Carmen Tartarotti, filmmaker. In: http://franzmagazine.com . December 15, 2014, accessed December 5, 2018 .

[7] Interview with Carmen Tartarotti by Renate Mumelter: Carmen Tartarotti. In: Alpenrosen, annual journal for women's culture 2011, e-paper, ed. v. Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, German Culture Department, pp. 14-17. March 3, 2011, accessed December 29, 2018 .