Carola Wedel

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Carola Wedel (born October 23, 1953 in Lörrach ) is a German filmmaker , editor , presenter and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, Carola Wedel studied German, history, art history, archeology, philosophy and theater studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1978 she completed her studies with a master's degree in the subjects of modern German literary and art history, as well as theater and media studies. During this time she was already working as an assistant director for theater and film productions, among others for Peter Zadek , Rudolf Noelte , Peter Stein , Daniel Christoff, Alfons Weidenmann and Walter Bockmayer .

She has worked as a journalist since 1975: first for print media such as Nürnberger Nachrichten , Zitty or Skyscraper ; then from 1978 freelance radio author for the SFB , WDR and SDR . In 1984 she began working as a television editor at the SFB, where she worked until 1986 as a freelance television editor and presenter of the newly designed program Berliner Platz , the first grassroots talk show with audience participation.

Between 1986 and 1987 she directed and moderated the television program Das Literäre Café from the Berlin Café Einstein. Then she was the moderator of MUMM , the weekly culture magazine of the SFB, editor for the Berlinale reporting in the third program (co-production with the WDR), head of the 'Cultural Features' department in the SFB and, after German reunification, editor of the first joint cultural TV productions of the ARD together with the DFF , the television of the GDR.

In 1990 she switched to ZDF , first as a culture presenter in heute-journal , then as presenter and editor of the culture magazine aspekte . In 1991 she received a teaching position at the University of Siegen and from 1992 built up the cultural department in the ZDF morning magazine from Berlin. Carola Wedel has been working as a cultural correspondent for programs like heute und heute-journal since 1994 . As the initiator of the media partnership between ZDF / 3sat and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Carola Wedel produced numerous reports and documentaries accompanying the reconstruction of the Museum Island . The long-term documentation started in 2001 is entitled “Museum Island Project of the Century”. She is also the editor and author of several books.

Awards

Movies

ARD:

  • 1987: Historical Landscapes: As if an Arm Raised: The National Survey in Schleswig-Holstein 1848: 1851
  • 1988: Oh yes, that's from a woman: visual artists yesterday and today?
  • 1988: Heimatmuseum: A novel becomes a film
  • 1989: The normal luxury: Berlin grand hotels yesterday and today
  • 1989: Adventure GDR: First impressions from the Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week
  • 1990: Typically German: Sunday stroll with Manfred Krug
  • 1990: Helke Misselwitz - meeting the GDR documentary filmmaker
  • 1990: Forward and already forgotten: Between Burgtheater and independent groups: Outlook for the 1990 Theatertreffen
  • 1990: Neighbors: European colonies in Berlin

ZDF:

  • 1992: 'Witnesses of the Century': Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
  • 1995: Aspects Extra: Look at this city: Berlin in Christ-rush
  • 1997: Menzel's journey into the new world
  • 1998: The House of 1000 Masterpieces: The Berlin Gemäldegalerie
  • 2000: City of the Future: City of Women
  • 2001: The Secret of the Broken Star: The Jewish Museum Berlin and its donors
  • 2001: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 1: The return of the great masters: Reopening of the Alte Nationalgalerie
  • 2002: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 2: The new Museum Island: The Myth, The Plan, The Vision
  • 2003: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 3: In the catacombs of the Pergamon Museum
  • 2004: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 4: Visions for a museum of tomorrow
  • 2004: Portrait: Corinna Harfouch
  • 2005: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 5: Nefertiti and the secret of Amarna
  • 2006: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 6: Treasury of kings: The Bode Museum
  • 2006: Together with Christian Deick: Treasures from the German Historical Museum
  • 2007: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 7: Looted property and looted art
  • 2008: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 8: The 434: or the secret of the bunker
  • 2008: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 9: The world on an island: Visions for Berlin's Schlossplatz
  • 2009: With heart and hand: The saviors of the Neues Museum Berlin
  • 2009: Museum Island project of the century, Chapter 10: A ruin becomes a jewel - The New Museum
  • 2010: Alone with Nefertiti at night: a museum never sleeps
  • 2011: Treasures of Islam: The documentary accompanies Stefan Weber, head of the Museum of Islamic Art, part of the Pergamon Museum, in developing the new concept for his house
  • 2012: The man who gave Nefertiti: James Simon , the forgotten patron
  • 2013: On the way to the cultures of the world: The reconstruction of the Berlin Palace and the exhibitions of non-European art and cultures planned therein
  • 2014: Mysterious Turfan: From the Silk Road to the Humboldt Forum
  • 2015: The Indians are coming: Indigenous peoples in the Berlin Humboldt Forum
  • 2016: An entrance for eternity: Star architect David Chipperfield is building in Berlin
  • 2017: On the trail of the Humboldts: Berlin-Paris and back
  • 2018: The Humboldt Brothers and their Forum: Impulses for dialogue with the cultures of the world

Publications

  • Together with Hildegard Hamm-Brücher: Courage for politics. Göttingen 1993. ISBN 3-88977-325-7
  • Together with Inge Aicher-Scholl and Bärbel Bohley: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, a president for everyone. Munich 1994. ISBN 3-492-12008-3
  • Together with Hildegard Hamm-Brücher: Witnesses of the Century: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher. Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-548-33251-X
  • Motifs in the works of female painters - gender characteristics? In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Interdisciplinary Frauenforschung und -studien (Ed.): The relationship between gender and women's advancement and the arts of women: Catalog for the exhibition (Vol. 1). Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-89085-319-6
  • The new Museum Island. The Myth: The Plan: The Vision. Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-87584-465-3
  • The Pergamon Museum. People: Myths: Masterpieces. Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89479-095-4
  • Nefertiti and the secret of Amarna. Mainz 2005. ISBN 3-8053-3544-X
  • The Bode Museum: Treasury of the Kings. Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-89773-549-0
  • The Neues Museum: A ruin becomes a jewel. Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-89773-623-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ faz.net: Portrait of the Patriot as a Patron - A fabulous documentation commemorates the Jewish citizen and Berlin cotton millionaire James Simon, the most important art patron of the German imperial era.
personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Carola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker, editor, presenter and book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach