Dagmar Hirtz
Dagmar Hirtz (born May 29, 1941 in Aachen ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film editor .
life and work
Career as a film editor
Dagmar Hirtz began studying musicology in Munich, which she did not finish. She came to film editing through a job in the copier factory . After a few projects as an assistant editor, she worked for Dr. med. Job Prätorius (1965, director: Kurt Hoffmann ) for the first time as an independent editor.
In the following 25 years, Hirtz edited films by directors such as Johannes Schaaf , Maximilian Schell , Margarethe von Trotta , Klaus Maria Brandauer and Volker Schlöndorff . In 1972 she won the German Film Prize for Best Editing for her assembly work at Trotta . She received this award again in 1979 for The Judge and His Executioner , and in 1990 for Georg Elser - One from Germany . In 2006, her life's work in the field of film montage was honored with a homage at Filmplus in Cologne.
Career as a director
Unusually for a film editor, Dagmar Hirtz was also active as an assistant director early on in several of her editing projects. With the short film Streifzüge (1980) she was able to gain her own directing experience. Dagmar Hirtz directed a feature film for the first time in the feature film Unreachable Proximity , released in 1984, and also wrote the screenplay with Margarethe von Trotta. In the early 1990s, Hirtz finally switched to directing with the feature film Moondance .
Her directorial career has focused exclusively on television fiction films since her first two feature films. She experienced her greatest success in 2010 with the TV film Die Midamme - Auf Leben und Tod , for which she received several awards, including the 2012 Grimme Prize .
In 2003 Dagmar Hirtz was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .
Filmography (selection)
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- 1965: Dr. med. Job Praetorius (also assistant director)
- 1965: The house on Karpfengasse
- 1967: tattoo (also assistant director)
- 1968: The castle
- 1970: First love (also assistant director)
- 1971: Trotta
- 1972: The Rectory Comedy (also assistant director)
- 1973: The Pedestrian (also screenplay)
- 1975: The judge and his executioner
- 1975: Views of a clown
- 1977: The Girls' War (also assistant director)
- 1978: Good for nothing
- 1979: Stories from the Vienna Woods (also production)
- 1981: Egon Schiele - excesses
- 1981: The lead time
- 1984: Marlene Dietrich - Portrait of a Myth (Documentary)
- 1986: Rosa Luxemburg
- 1988: Oedipussi
- 1989: Georg Elser - One from Germany
- 1991: Homo Faber
- 1992: Salt on Our Skin (Salt on Our Skin)
- 1997: Through Roses
Director
- 1984: Unattainable closeness (also editing, screenplay)
- 1994: Moondance (also editing, coproduction)
- 1997: The competitor
- 2000: kiss me, frog
- 2001: Bella Block : Bitter Suspicion
- 2002: Death is no proof
- 2004: Bella Block: The Opposite of Love
- 2006: she is my mother
- 2007: I didn't mean to kill
- 2009: my husband, his lover and me
- 2010: The midwife - for life and death
- 2012: heart failure
Awards
- 1972: German Film Award / Best Editing for Trotta
- 1979: German Film Award / Best Editing for The Judge and His Executioner
- 1990: German Film Award / Best Editing for Georg Elser - One from Germany
- 1996: Film Prize of the City of Munich
- 2001: Goldener Spatz 2001 , prize of the expert jury for the best director in Küss mich, Frosch
- 2010: Official Jury Prize for Best Director at the Zoom Festival in Igualada for Die Midwife - Auf Leben und Tod
- 2011: Austrian Adult Education TV Award, Best Director for Die Midwife - Auf Leben und Tod
- 2012: Grimme Prize for The Midwife - For Life and Death
Web links
- Dagmar Hirtz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dagmar Hirtz at filmportal.de
- Agency profile of Dagmar Hirtz
- Short CV at the Federal Association of Directing
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview on the occasion of the homage at Filmplus 2006
- ^ Archive of the homage at Filmplus
- ↑ Grimme Prize 2012, Competition Fiktion / Spezial ( 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirtz, Dagmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |