Connie Walther

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Cornelia Walther , known as Connie Walther (born September 17, 1962 in Darmstadt ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Connie Walther studied sociology and Spanish after graduating from high school in Marburg and then trained as an advertising photographer in Düsseldorf . She worked as a lighting technician , production assistant and assistant director with directors Wolfgang Becker and Dominik Graf, among others . The films she was involved in include Wilder Westerwald and Ex (both 1995) and Life is a Construction Site (1997). She studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In 1996 she shot her graduation film here, The first time with Lavinia Wilson in the leading role, which was awarded as the “best thesis of a German film academy”.

In 1999 she was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for her television film Hauptsache Leben , together with the leading actress Renée Soutendijk . Her film Wie Feuer und Flamme was nominated for the German Film Prize 2002 in the category Best Film . With Katja Flint in the title role, she filmed the crime thriller Murder in All Innocence based on a script by Friedrich Ani . For 12 means: I love you , the unusual love story between a Stasi officer and his victim, it received the German Television Award 2008 in the category Best Director . Walther's television film Frau Böhm says no with Senta Berger and Lavinia Wilson in the leading roles takes up the circumstances of the Mannesmann takeover, was voted the most popular television film of the year with the 3sat audience award in November 2009 and the Adolf Grimme award in March 2010 excellent.

Her film Schattenwelt, started in 2009 and starring Franziska Petri and Ulrich Noethen, focuses on the inner world of the daughter of an RAF terrorist victim. Ex-RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock was involved in the project as an author.

Her cinema drama Die Rüden, about rehabilitation training for violent criminals, had its world premiere on October 25, 2019 at the Hof International Film Festival . It was filmed with four young actors who brought their own prison experience with them, with aggressive-biting dogs with muzzles and a dog trainer whose project is this constellation for psychological changes.

From 2002 to 2005 Connie Walther was a lecturer at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg , the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and the International Film School Cologne . She is a member of the German Film Academy , on whose board she was elected in 2010 for a six-year term.

Connie Walther lives in Berlin .

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to filmportal.de. Filmszene D , Berlin 2004, states Essen as the place of birth .
  2. ↑ Film website for the feature film Schattenwelt ( Memento from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Official website Die Males. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "That was the 53rd Hof Film Festival" , BR themed broadcast of the series "kinokino" from October 29, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Connie Walther on the website for the film Shadow World ( Memento from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 9, 2012
  6. ^ Connie Walther profile on the website of the German Film Academy
  7. ^ Deutsche Filmakademie presents new board members , filmportal.de from February 14, 2011, accessed October 29, 2019
  8. ↑ 1997 winners , accessed on July 9, 2012
  9. ^ Prix ​​Europa 1997. (PDF; 1 MB) Accessed on May 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Connie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt