Dietmar Kraus

Dietmar Kraus (born July 26, 1970 in Freilassing ) is a German film editor , curator and lecturer .

Life

Born in Bavaria, Dietmar Kraus grew up in South Africa and graduated from the German School in Cape Town in 1989 . In 1990 he returned to Germany. From 1995 to 2003 studied at the Film School Babelsberg in the degree program installation , which he graduated with diploma. From 2007 to 2009 he was a representative of the professorship for artistic assembly / digital assembly practice at his former study site in Potsdam .

As editor, Kraus has edited more than a dozen feature and documentary films, including two films each by the directors Maria Speth and Sylke Enders , as well as the director Jonas Rothlaender . The montage of Rothlaender's documentary Familie haben brought Kraus a nomination for the editing prize at the Festival Filmplus in 2016 . Films edited by him also won several other prizes: B. received the docu-drama Life Goes on (director: Mark Cairns) in 2003 an International Emmy for best documentary; the feature film Madonnen (director: Maria Speth) was awarded the Hessian Film Prize in 2007 ; and Fado (director: Jonas Rothlaender) won the German Film Critics' Prize in 2016 for best debut feature film.

Dietmar Kraus has been a member of the board of the Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV (BFS) since 2016 and is a member of the German Film Academy . Since 2017 he has also been a curator and partner at the Filmplus Festival in Cologne, which is dedicated to both the artistic and professional aspects of film editing.

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: Into the day (feature film) - Director: Maria Speth
• 2002: Sand and Water (documentary) - Director: Shaheen Dill-Riaz
• 2002: Life Goes On (docu-drama) - Director: Mark Cairns
• 2006: The Sounds of Silents - The Silent Film Pianist (Documentary) - Director: Ilona Ziok
• 2007: Madonnen (feature film) - Director: Maria Speth
• 2007: Mondkalb (feature film) - Director: Sylke Enders
• 2009: Germany 09 (Omnibus film, episode "Schieflage") - Director: Sylke Enders
• 2013: It's your turn (TV feature film) - Director: Sylke Enders, Co-Editor: Katharina Schmidt
• 2014: Chalk on concrete (documentary) - directed by Helene Vogel and Julia Vogel
• 2015: Familie haben (feature documentary) - director: Jonas Rothlaender
• 2016: Fado (feature film) - Director: Jonas Rothlaender
• 2017: Dear Me, (Documentary) - Director: Luise Makarov
• 2019: The Individual Parts of Love (feature film) - Director: Miriam Bliese

Web links

• Dietmar Kraus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dietmar Kraus at filmportal.de
• Dietmar Kraus at the Federal Association of Film Editing Editor eV (BFS)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietmar Kraus at filmportal.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Dietmar Kraus. Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV (BFS) , accessed on March 23, 2019 .  
3. ^ Documentary nominations 2016. Festival Filmplus , accessed on March 23, 2019 .  
4. ^ Winners Archive. International Emmy Award , accessed March 23, 2019 .  
5. ↑ Press dossier: German Film Critics' Prize 2016 (PDF) Association of German Film Critics , February 13, 2016, accessed on March 23, 2019 .  
6. ^ New board for the FSO. (No longer available online.) Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV (BFS) , May 13, 2016, archived from the original on March 22, 2019 ; accessed on March 23, 2019 . 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.  
7. ^ BFS Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV (BFS) , archived from the original on March 27, 2019 ; accessed on March 23, 2019 . 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.  
8. ^ Members. German Film Academy , accessed on March 23, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Shift change. Festival Filmplus , accessed on March 23, 2019 .