Evelyn Schels
Evelyn Schels (* 1955 in Munich ) is a German screenwriter and director .
life and work
Schels studied 1975-1982 German , Romance Languages and Art History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (state exam) and and was in Paris in 1987 in Munich in comparative literature with the thesis The tradition of lyrical drama from Musset to Hofmannsthal to Dr. phil. PhD . Since then she has worked as a director and screenwriter for documentaries and television series a . a. works for ARD and arte and teaches part-time as a lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich . Her films have been shown at festivals in Milan, Paris, Berlin ( Berliner Festwochen ), Montreal and Munich ( International Documentary Film Festival Munich ).
Her films also include the BR / ARTE series “Weltbürger und Grenzgänger”, in which she introduced contemporary personalities such as Hans-Olaf Henkel , Wolfram Siebeck , Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Werner Spies , as well as the series of full-length documentaries “With the eyes of women “With stations in Portuguese, Hungarian and Turkish families. In 2007 she portrayed an Algerian family in France in “And love comes later”. In addition, many portraits were created in the "Lifelines" series.
In 2013 her documentary about Georg Baselitz was shown in the cinema. In 2019 her documentary Body of Truth about Marina Abramović , Sigalit Landau , Shirin Neshat and Katharina Sieverding premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film is scheduled to start in German cinemas on April 2, 2020 on distribution by NFP / Filmwelt.
Schels lives in Munich and Paris.
Filmography (selection)
- 1987: In the cold of Nanterre - Patrice Chéreau (portrait)
- 1988: Enzo Cucchi - painter (portrait)
- 1990: Luc Bondy - director (portrait)
- 1990: Day faces, night faces - Julien Green
- 1991: The Frozen Leopard - Artist and a Photograph
- 1992: Dieter Dorn rehearses Lear
- 1994: And in the Silence of Death - Life - The Paris Père Lachaise Cemetery
- 1995: Amour du Cinema - The Myth of French Cinema
- 1995: People and streets - Place Pigalle
- 1997: Miss Doris and the Cancan - The ballet master of the Moulin Rouge (portrait)
- 1998: "I was a second Leonardo" - Man Ray (portrait)
- 1998: Danced on top - Konstanze Vernon (portrait)
- 1999: Utopias of the City - Robert Delaunay (portrait)
- 2000: Turin - A severe beauty
- 2004: Georg Baselitz painter (portrait)
- 2005: Henri Matisse - The Colors of the South (portrait)
- 2007: Jean Tinguely - I am an artist of movement (portrait)
- 2007: The Imam von Penzberg (portrait of Benjamin Idriz )
- 2007: And Love Comes Later - The Story of an Immigrant Family in France
- 2008: The village owner (portrait)
- 2008: Per Kirkeby - On the trail of nature
- 2009: Vamp, rabbit, lioness - Margot Werner (portrait)
- 2009: Amedeo Modigliani - An Italian in Paris (portrait)
- 2009: My home is the foreigner (portrait of Nevfel Cumart )
- 2010: Salt in Mocha - Interior of a Turkish immigrant family
- 2013: It will never be over for me - Corinna Ponto
- 2013: Georg Baselitz (feature film)
- 2014: Pola Kinski - The Touched (portrait)
- 2019: Body of Truth (feature film)
Web links
- Evelyn Schels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Evelyn Schels at filmportal.de
- Website from Evelyn Schels
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evelyn Schels: The tradition of lyrical drama from Musset to Hofmannsthal , 1990, p. 288.
- ↑ https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/de/programm/Film/32579/Body_of_Truth?q=%7B%22jahr%22%3A%222019%22%7D
- ↑ http://www.filmweltverleih.de/cinema/movie/body-of-truth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schels, Evelyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |