Dorte Warnø Høgh

Dorte Warnø Høgh (born August 15, 1969 ) is a Danish screenwriter and film director .

family

Dorte Høgh grew up in a wealthy family in Charlottenlund with her mother, the cinema operator Anne Fabricius-Bjerre, and her stepfather, the composer Bent Fabricius-Bjerre . Her father was the doctor Ole Warnø (1933-2010), with whom her mother had two other children. In 1991 Warnø Høgh married the commercial film director Gaute Høgh. The marriage ended in divorce sixteen years later.

She and her four children have lived in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen since 2009 . She has had a second home in Reykjavík for years as she once bred Icelandic horses.

Career

After high school, she wanted to take a year off and try it out, so she started working in the media industry, which was followed by jobs as an editor and journalist. She moderated the programs Ulvetimen and Eleva2ren for Danish television . In 1997 she began her training as a screenwriter at Den Danske Filmskole , which she completed two years later. Since then she has worked for various Danish series and films.

Grisen is her directorial debut, a short film about cultural differences that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Film 2009 . She thinks a lot of the short film format, as in the age of new playback devices it would have advantages over longer formats.

On the occasion of her divorce in 2008 she wrote a contribution to the book by Kim Kidholm Jeg Skal skilles - Hvad gør jeg? ( ISBN 9788702068344 ).

Filmography (selection)

• 2003: Das Erbe (Arven) as a screenwriter
• 2005: Manslaughter - In the vicious circle of violence (Drabet) as a screenwriter
• 2006 to 2009: Anna Pihl - On patrol in Copenhagen (Anna Pihl) , TV series, as a screenwriter
• 2009: Grisen as a director and screenwriter
• 2010: Under the Skin - Dangerous Desires (Kvinden der drønte om en mand) as a screenwriter
• since 2013: Dicte , TV series, as a screenwriter

Prizes and awards (selection)

Arven was nominated for the Robert as Best Original Screenplay 2004. The same happened to Drabet in 2006 . Her directorial debut Grisen was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award in the Best Short Film category. At the International Film Festival in Warsaw , this film was voted the best short film by the audience.

Web links

• Dorte Høgh Warnø in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry on the Det-Danske-Filminstitut website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Vivi Sjøner: Dorthe Høgh: Jeg fungerer bedst i kaos ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Krop & Fysik 4-2011.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Henrik Dannemand: "Rend mig, din dumme skid"  , March 15, 2009, on b.dk.
3. ↑ Portrait of Anne Fabricius-Bjerres ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 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. at altfordamerne.dk.