Claudia von Alemann
Claudia von Alemann (born March 23, 1943 in Seebach, Thuringia ) is a German film director and professor .
life and work
Claudia von Alemann grew up in Krefeld in 1949 . Later she attended the Hildegard-von-Bingen-Gymnasium in Cologne-Sülz and passed the Abitur there in 1963. She studied sociology and art history at the Free University of Berlin until 1964 and then until 1968 at the Institute for Film Design at the Ulm School of Design .
Then she worked as a freelance director on projects for various television companies, in particular the Hessischer Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk . In May 1968 she went to Paris , where she took part in film collectives, the "Etats généraux du cinéma". In her television documentary That's Just the Beginning - The Fight Goes On , she reported on it. In 1973 she and Helke Sander organized the 1st International Women's Film Seminar at the Arsenal cinema in West Berlin .
After several short films and documentaries on political topics, film topics and the topic of women's emancipation , she made the feature film Die Reise nach Lyon about Flora Tristan , a French women's rights activist of the 19th century , from 1978 to 1980 . In 1981 she created the surrealistic video film Das Frauenzimmer for ZDF . In 1983 she directed Nebelland , a film about the unhappy love story between a German and an American, as part of the series Das kleine Fernsehspiel .
In 1977 Claudia von Alemann became a film lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , and from 1982 to 2006 she was professor for film at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences . In 2019 she was accepted into the Film and Media Art section of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) .
Andres Müry is the father of her daughter Noemi von Alemann (* 1978). She is now married to the Cuban director Fernando Pérez . Her brother is the long-time professor of political science at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Ulrich von Alemann .
Filmography
- 1966: Easy (short film)
- 1967: EXPMNTL Knokke (TV documentary)
- 1967: Lustgewinn I (experimental film)
- 1967: Fundevogel (short film)
- 1969: This is just the beginning - the fight continues (TV documentary)
- 1969: Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (TV documentary)
- 1970: Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver (short documentary)
- 1970: Brigitte (short TV documentary)
- 1971: Germaine Greer (TV short documentary)
- 1971: FLQ Montreal (short TV documentary)
- 1971: Toronto Anti-imperialist Women's Congress (short TV documentary)
- 1971: Tu luc van doan - On my own (short documentary)
- 1972: Temporary work (short TV documentary)
- 1972: Accident at work (short TV documentary)
- 1973: It depends on changing them (documentary)
- 1974: Namibia (documentary)
- 1977: Films of the Sun and the Night: Ariane Mnouchkine (documentary)
- 1980: The trip to Lyon
- 1981: The woman's room
- 1982: Fog Land
- 1984: The Door in the Wall (TV)
- 1987: The next century will be ours, part of the TV series Unerhört - The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to today
- 2000: Vladimir Favorable - A Trojan Affair (actress only)
- 2001: Was once a wild Aquarius
- 2011: The woman with the camera: Portrait of the photographer Abisag Tüllmann
Awards
- 1982: German film critic's award for Die Reise nach Lyon
- 1983: Main Jury Prize and Audience Prize at the Première Manifestation Internationale de L'Audiovisuel Montbéliard, for Das Frauenzimmer
- 1988: Grand Prize of the Jury of the Festival Internationale de Films et Vidéos de Femmes Montreal for The next century will be ours
- 1993: Special prize of the jury of the Minsk International Women's Film Festival for how nocturnal shadows / return to Thuringia
- 1994: Special prize of the jury of the International Video Festival Liège
Web links
- Claudia von Alemann at filmportal.de
- Claudia von Alemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claudia von Alemann's CV on the website of the Documentary Film Working Group
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alemann, Claudia von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seebach (Thuringia) |