Elke Wendt-Kummer

Elke Wendt-Kummer (born February 2, 1941 in Rathenow ) is a screenwriter , director and translator . She made documentaries , television features and translated plays.

Life

Wendt-Kummer acquired her film training alongside her studies in journalism , theater studies and Romance studies at the Free University of Berlin (1960-1967), at the Deutsche Kinemathek , where she published the first volumes of the German Silent Film Catalog, and through film introductions in art cinemas and film reviews in the Spandauer Volksblatt and the magazine Film . From 1967 to 70 she learned the craft of researching, writing exposé, treatment and screenplay as an assistant director in the Munich film production company Strobel-Tichawsky.

1970 first television feature (45 ') for Radio Bremen , and current television cultural reporting for WDR Cologne and NDR Hamburg. 1970–1974 editor at Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg: development of the German concept for the American preschool series Sesame Street , editor for the new parts to be shot about Germany, script and direction of various real film spots for the preschool series. Development of an accompanying series for Sesame Street and shooting of the pilot film .

From 1974 to scriptwriter for the children's program of the Sender Freies Berlin , the ZDF women's series The Long Day and the feature film Starting Aid . Co-author of 6 episodes of the ZDF feature film series From one who moved out .

Since 1977 freelance filmmaker at NDR Hamburg, Radio Bremen, WDR, ZDF and the Munich Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education (FWU) with a focus on documentaries and feature films on psychosocial topics. Script and direction of numerous documentaries as “permanent free ” of the ZDF series: Kinder-Kinder , Kontakt , Context and 37 ° . Editorial support of the ZDF talk show Atelier 4 - Culture in Conversation and the ZDF series Zeugen des Jahrhundert . (Interviews with, among others, Gottfried Reinhardt , Hanne Hiob , Hans Abich, as well as directing the broadcasts.) Writing and directing semi-documentary films with actors for the literary department of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).

She worked as a translator of plays, a. a. for the Pirandello edition.

Films (selection)

• "Der Wolfsjunge ( Francois Truffaut )", script + direction, feature, WDR, 30 '
• "Winners don't need arguments", script + direction, documentary ZDF, 45 '
• "Lebenskunst", script + direction, documentary ZDF, 45 '
• "The new media world of children", script + direction, documentary, ZDF, 45 '
• "What does criminal mean here?", Script + direction, documentary ZDF, 45 '
• "The everyday small war", script + direction, documentary ZDF, 45 '
• "That happens in the best families", script + direction, game, series ZDF, 4 episodes of 45 'each:
• “The scapegoat”, “Little tyrants”, “Ghosts”, “False considerations”.
• "The Inner Wall", script + director documentation, ZDF series, 2 episodes of 45 'each
• "Hiebe instead of love", script + direction, documentary, ZDF, 45 '
• "Does love have to be romantic?", Script + direction, documentary, ZDF, 45 '
• "Monopoly um Elbflorenz", script + direction, feature, WDR, 45 '
• "On the bridal show in St. Petersburg", script + direction, documentary, ZDF, 45 '
• "Adventure Family", script + direction, feature, ZDF, 30 '
• "Completely different circumstances", script + direction, documentation, ZDF, 45 '
• "Heinrich Heine - Irony and Contradiction", script + direction, documentary game, BR, 45 '
• " Fanny Lewald - The Other Woman", script + direction, play, BR, 45 '

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elke Wendt-Kummer, Vita, Bundesverband Regie
2. ↑ Kiepenheuer stage sales
3. ^ Film overview , directors' association