Edda Baumann-von Broen

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Edda Baumann-von Broen (* 1964 in Celle ) is a German film producer , film director and author .

biography

Edda Baumann-von Broen studied German and American studies in Berlin and in 1987 moved to New York University as a DAAD scholarship holder . She then wrote for various music magazines and worked as a director and producer for German and international broadcasters. In 1992 she took over the management of avanti media film production in New York City . There she developed her first broadcast format with Florian Lahnstein, Avanti - the culture magazine for VOX (1993–1995).

In 1995 Baumann-von Broen returned to Berlin and founded the film and television production company avanti media OHG together with Cordula Kablitz-Post . The company produced the documentary series Mein Leben , Maestro , Faces of Europe and Germany, your artists for ARD , ZDF and ARTE . In 2002 Baumann-von Broen and Martin Pieper developed Durch die Nacht mit… , a documentary format for ARTE, which she is still producing. The format was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize . Baumann-von Broen received the Prix ​​Victoria as a director for Through the Night with Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald , and for Through the Night with Marina Abramovic and Ismael Ivo she received the Gran Premio Asolo 2004 for the best film in the competition together with Hanna Leissner .

In 2006 Baumann-von Broen produced the documentary Moebius Redux by Hasko Baumann about the French author and comic artist Jean Giraud , which received honors in the categories of Best Documentary and Judges' Choice Award at the Comic-Con San Diego. In 2008 she produced the documentary Monsterland , directed by Jörg Buttgereit , and screened at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, Comic Con San Diego, Fantasporto Portugal, the London International Sci-Fi Film Festival and the Camera Japan Festival. In 2012 she produced the film Tall Girls about the social challenges for girls and women with a height of 1.80 m and over, which she also directed. Tall Girls ran in the Warsaw Int. Film Festival and at the Int. Documentary Festival Seoul, Int. Documentary Festival Mexico City, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival u. a.

In order to increase her focus on international documentary films on cultural topics with social relevance, she founded avanti media + GmbH in 2013 . In 2014 she produced the documentary The Donald Duck Principle , which tells of the fear of failure caused by the most famous unlucky boob. In 2016 she produced the series Kuba - Auf zu neue Shore , for ARTE , which documents the change and optimism in the country, and in 2018 the documentary Real Men , which examines the myth of the male screen hero and his influence on society. Edda Baumann-von Broen lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1990: Ellis Island (director), 30 min., PREMIERE.
  • 1991: The Making of Manhattan (director), 56 min., PREMIERE.
  • 1996: Voices in the Dark (director), 27 min., Deutsche Welle-TV.
  • 1999: The enchanting Ahn-Trio (director), 45 min., ARTE
  • 2002: The 12 Cellists (director), 43 min., ARTE
  • 2003: Through the night with Michel Friedman and Christoph Schlingensief (directors), 64 min., ARTE
  • 2006: Moebius Redux - A Life In Pictures (as producer, director: Hasko Baumann), 70 min, ZDF / ARTE, AVRO, Bravo !, TV Ontario, Canal D, YLE teema
  • 2008: Monsterland (as producer, director: Jörg Buttgereit), 71 min., ZDF / ARTE, YLE teema
  • 2008: The Well-Minded (Direction with Oliver Hirschbiegel, Hilka Sinnig), 90 min.
  • 2011: Tall Girls (director, screenplay, production), 79 min., ZDF / ARTE, MEDIA, DFFF, Salzgeber
  • 2015: The Donald Duck principle, (director with Hasko Baumann), 90 min., ZDF / ARTE
  • 2018: Through the night with Lars Eidinger and Oskar Roehler (directors), 52 min., ZDF / ARTE
  • 2018: Real Men (as producer, director: Hasko Baumann), 90 min., ZDF / ARTE
  • 2019: Through the night with Pamela Anderson and Srecko Horvat, 52 min., ARTE

literature

  • Georg Franck, Cordula Kablitz-Post, Katrin Pieper, Edda Baumann-von Broen, Christoph Schlingensief, Michel Friedman, Till Brönner, Dirk Nowitzki: Through the night with…. Frankfurt am Main: Two thousand and one. 2006. ISBN 978-3-86150-676-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.grimme-preis.de/archiv/2006/preistraeger/p/d/edda-baumann-von-broen/
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101229103453/http://www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=357
  3. ↑ https://www.wirtschaftsfilmtage.com/preistraeger/preistraeger-2010/
  4. ↑ http://www.asoloartfilmfestival.com/history/vincitori-anni-precedenti/
  5. ↑ https://programm.ard.de/TV/arte/moebius-redux/eid_287245631898361
  6. ↑ https://programm.ard.de/TV/arte/monsterland/eid_287246074605955
  7. ↑ http://tallgirls-thefilm.com/page/de/
  8. ↑ http://avantimediaplus.de/language/de/
  9. ↑ https://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2872418418193187
  10. ↑ https://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Sender/?sendung=2872418573640970
  11. ↑ https://avantimediaplus.de/project/real-men-2/
personal data
SURNAME Baumann-von Broen, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle