Esther Gronenborn

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Esther Gronenborn (* 1966 in Oldenburg ) is a German director .

Live and act

Esther Gronenborn is a graduate of the Munich Film School . In 1987 she was a founding member of the Stuttgart film event and artist group " Wand 5 ", which has organized the Stuttgart Filmwinter film festival every year since then . Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance writer and director. During her studies, she spent several semesters abroad in Hong Kong, China, England and Romania. Between 1994 and 1997 she worked for Columbia TriStar as a dubbing manager and did an internship at Columbia TriStar Hong Kong Office Asia Distribution . There she attended filming by the Shaw Brothers and the John Woos and Tsui Harks film workshop . In 1997 she finished her studies and worked for the company DORO Berlin as a music video director. There were clips like Knife in the Head or My Little Sister . After three years as a director for music videos, her feature film debut alaska.de came into the cinemas in 2000 and brought her u. a. the Lola for the best director. For Adil Goes and City as Loot , she received two more prizes. Esther Gronenborn worked for the Berlin Philharmonic, shot social spots and virals as well as three interactive feature films on drug prevention for the company Kakoii . She created several episodes for Gallileo Mystery and filmed the mystery thriller Behind Kaifeck with 24 frames and Seven Pictures . Esther Gronenborn was on the award committee of the FFA ( Filmförderungsanstalt ) from 2008 to 2014 and on the executive board of the Federal Association of Directing from 2014 to 2016 . She is a member of the German and European Film Academy as well as on the board of ProQuote Director .

Filmography

Short game, and television films

  • 1986: Dog Days (short film, video)
  • 1987: How to use a car (short film, Super 8)
  • 1988: Deep Down (short film, Super 8)
  • 1990: You are not ashamed of your tears (short film, 16 mm)
  • 1991: I wonder in Pornoland (short film, 16 mm)
  • 1992: Dawn (short film)
  • 1995: EPG 55 or the day my TV broke (short film, 16 mm)
  • 1997: The Road to Happiness (DV)
  • 2000: alaska.de
  • 2002: 99 Euro Films (episode Balkan Rhapsody ; short film, DV)
  • 2005: Adil leaves
  • 2005: City as Prey (episode Ohboy )
  • 2006: DVD on drug prevention, (approx. 60 min.) Part 1
  • 2007: Galileo Mystery (various episodes, studio direction and documentary shoots)
  • 2009: Behind Kaifeck
  • 2009: Do you have anything else to do? Part II, 60 min. interactive drug prevention feature film
  • 2010: Do you have anything else to do? Part III, 70 min. interactive drug prevention feature film
  • 2011: Do you have anything else to do? Part 1 and IV, 50 min u. 15 minutes. interactive drug prevention feature film
  • 2012: BalkanBeats, A Musical Journey (Documentary)
  • 2013: Down in Brandenburg (co-producer)
  • 2015: Retaliation (TV movie)
  • 2017: I will not be silent (TV movie)
  • 2019: A weekend in August (TV movie)

Awards

  • 1992: Best screenplay for short film Dawn , FilmVerlag der Autor
  • 1992: Silver Mikeldo in Bilbao for dawn
  • 1993: Hof Film Festival Kodak Prize for Dawn
  • 2001: Bavarian Film Award Best Young Director for alaska.de
  • 2001: German Film Award / Lola for Best Director for alaska.de
  • 2001: Nomination for the European Film Award for Best International Young Director
  • 2002: Nomination of the Grimme Prize for alaska.de
  • 2001: Best script at alaska.de FilmKunstFest Schwerin
  • 2001: German Film Critics' Prize for Best Music
  • 2002: Giffoni Children's and Youth Film Festival 2nd Prize for alaska.de .
  • 2005: Main Prize Flying Ox for Adil Geht , FilmKunstFest Schwerin
  • 2005: Special mention by the jury of the Max Ophüls Festival for Adil Geht
  • 2006: Prize of the International Association of Art Cinemas (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas D'Art et Essai) for the city ​​as booty

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esther Gronenborn. In: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343094/ . Internet_Movie_Database , accessed June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Zeit / Angelika Finkenwirth: Quality cannot be measured, but a quota can . Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  3. ^ Alfred Holighaus: Stepping out - from film school to feature film. Schüren, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89472-343-9 , p. 103.
  4. ^ David Clarke: German Cinema. A&C Black, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8264-8145-0 , p. 4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Esther Gronenborn. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gronenborn, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg