Claire Walka

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Claire Walka (* 1978 in Stuttgart ) is a German author , director and film editor .

Education and career

After graduating from the Leibniz-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Feuerbach , Claire Walka studied visual communication with a focus on film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and completed a semester abroad in the field of video design at the Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona . In 2006 she completed her studies with a diploma. She has lived and worked in Hamburg since 2007. In 2008 she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and in 2013 in the writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.

Claire Walka writes short stories, scripts, experimental & lyrical texts and has made numerous short films, music videos and clips as a director and screenwriter. In her reading performances, she combines classic reading with audio & video clips.

Her greatest international successes to date were the short film “Promenade d'après-midi” (2005), which was shown at over 100 festivals worldwide, and the short documentary “Hotel Bellevue” (2014) about the history of a hotelier family and their house in Lauenburg / Elbe . The idea came to her in 2010 during her stay as a literature scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg . The film premiered in October 2014 as part of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck and has since been shown at numerous festivals around the world, including the Noordelijk Film Festival Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, the IMA Film Festival, Thrissur in Kerala , India at the iChill Manila Film Festival in the Philippines at the MICA Film Festival, Manaus , Brazil where the film was awarded the “Best Short Doc” prize, at the Schleswig-Holstein Film Festival in Kiel, at the Multiverse Film Festival in New York and at the Royal Film Festival Benton, Arkansas and at Festival Cine es Cena in La Laguna, Tenerife.

In September 2015, the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg dedicated a first retrospective to Claire Walka with videos, animations, clips, shorts and documentaries from 2002 to 2014.

Literary publications

  • 2009 “Who gets the crisis”, Berlin science publisher
  • 2010 subsistence level (prose) in the anthology of the price question of the young academy
  • 2011 Not always (prose) and Invisible (poetry) in the anthology “Winterreise der Berner Bücherwochen”, Geest-Verlag
  • 2011 Insel (Lyrik) in the anthology "Lyrischer Lorbeer"
  • 2013 The world belongs to you (prose) in "Federlesen", anthology of the writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
  • 2013 Submerged (poetry) in the anthology “The noise falls silent until you are still in” for the Brüggen Literature Autumn, Geest Verlag

Filmography

  • 2002 Where nobody needs you, short film (screenplay, direction, editing, production)
  • 2002 Philine & Phyllis, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 2003 Bell carousel, short animation film (direction, text, animation)
  • 2003 Little Journey, short animation film (screenplay, direction, animation)
  • 2004 Always so far, music video (direction, camera, editing, text, graphics, music)
  • 2005 Promenade d´après-midi, short film (director, camera, editor, music)
  • 2006 Dear Miss Mistress, music video (direction, camera, editing, graphics)
  • 2007 Irrläufer, short film (screenplay, direction, camera, editing, production)
  • 2008 I demand freedom with a roar, short film (direction, editing, production)
  • 2009 On a day in April, experimental short film (screenplay, direction, editing, graphics, production)
  • 2009 Scharrenhauser architects' office, short film (direction, production together with Fabian Daub)
  • 2010 Lichtspuren, short film (screenplay, direction, editing, production)
  • 2010 Me, Nohohon-Zoku, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 2011 Woodruff - Contribution to arte Karambolage (direction, animation, sound design)
  • 2011 Scharrenhausers on tour, short film (direction & production with Fabian Daub)
  • 2012 30 years of Filmbüro Hessen, short animation film (direction, animation, sound design)
  • 2014 Hotel Bellevue, short documentary (director, camera, editor, production)

Awards

  • 2003 Frankfurt film award visionale for "Little Journey"
  • 2004 Media Art Price Friesland for "Kleine Reise"
  • 2004 Jury Special Price short films for "Bell Carousel"
  • 2006 2nd audience award for "Promenade d'après-midi"
  • 2007 Award at the Visual Music Award Frankfurt 2007 for "Always so far"
  • 2007 Particularly valuable rating & short film of the month with "Promenade d'après-midi"
  • 2008 overall winner of the super short film festival zucktertv with "I call for freedom with a roar"
  • 2009 1st prize for experimental film Totí Maribor Slovenia for "On a day in April"
  • 2010 German Business Film Prize for "Scharrenhauser Architects"
  • 2010 1st Prize Audience Short Film Night Greifswald for "Traces of Light"
  • 2010 1st prize audience ClipAward Mannheim for "Scharrenhauser architects"
  • 2010 scholarship for literature from the state of Schleswig-Holstein in the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
  • 2011 “Simply good on it” - winning text prose gold dust competition female authors' association
  • 2011 1st Oldenburg Short Film Award for “Scharrenhausers on Tour” at the zwergwerk Festival
  • 2011 Real Film Jury Prize for “Traces of Light” at Annaberg Film Festival
  • 2011 audience award for "I call for freedom with a roar"
  • 2011 2nd audience prize for “Ich, Nohohon Zoku” Pixelstorm Award Zurich
  • 2011 Premio della Giuria Filmmaker (jury award) for “Lichtspuren” Efebo Corto Sicily
  • 2011 Classification valuable by the FBW for "Scharrenhauser Architects"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.morgenweb.de/nachrichten/kultur/kultur-allgemein/kaderschmiede-der-literatur-1.1100024
  2. ↑ http://rzkultur.de/?kat=31&cont=7970
  3. ↑ http://www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de/printarchiv/lauenburg/article133487938/Ein-Kleinod-liebevoll-in-Szene-etzt.html
  4. ↑ http://www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de/printarchiv/lauenburg/article137365508/Erfalt-mit-dem-Film-Hotel-Bellevue.html
  5. ↑ http://www.kuenstlerhaus-lauenburg.de/?f_aktn=show_prog&prog_id=7
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / visual-music-award.de
  7. ↑ http://webmoritz.de/2010/12/04/grusel-witz-groteske-das-war-die-6- Greifswalder-kurzfilmnacht /
personal data
SURNAME Walka, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, film director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart