Frauke Finsterwalder

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Frauke Finsterwalder (* 1975 in Hamburg ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Frauke Finsterwalder was born in Hamburg in 1975. She spent some of her school days in the USA . She then studied literature and history in Berlin . As an assistant director she worked at the Berliner Volksbühne and at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater . She also worked as a freelance journalist for the Berlin tabloid BZ and the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

In 2003 Finsterwalder finally began studying documentary directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her first short film work 0.003 km was shown in 2005 at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival . This was followed by the documentary films Weil der Mensch ist ein Mensch (2007, together with Stephan Hilpert ) and The Great Pyramid (2010), which was shown for the first time at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival.

In July 2013, her first feature film Finsterworld premiered at the Munich Film Festival . Sandra Hüller , Ronald Zehrfeld , Margit Carstensen , Carla Juri , Michael Maertens and Corinna Harfouch can be seen in the leading roles . Finsterworld was awarded the Zenith Award for the best debut film at the World Film Festival in Montréal in 2013 , as well as the TV Feature Film Award from the Cologne Film Festival, the Cologne Conference . The film won the Golden Eye for the best German-language feature film at the Zurich Film Festival 2013 competition , as well as the Swiss Film Critics' Prize. Finsterworld was also nominated five times for the German Film Prize 2014, including as best feature film, received the German Film Critics Prize for the best screenplay and the German Director Prize Metropolis 2014 for the best young directors.

Frauke Finsterwalder has been married to the Swiss writer Christian Kracht since 2007 . The couple live in Los Angeles.

Filmography

  • 2005: 0.003 km (short film)
  • 2007: Because man is a man (documentary film)
  • 2010: The Great Pyramid (Documentary)
  • 2013: Finsterworld

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sufferings of boys . Website of the Goethe Institute. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Stürzenhofecker: Summer camp communists . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 13, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Portrait of Frauke Finsterwalder . Website of the S. Fischer publishing house. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv/ehepaar-kracht- shows- finsterworld-im- kinound  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 1, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bz-berlin.de  
  5. ↑ 0.003 km . filmportal.de. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ Thomas Lindemann: A tomb should improve Germany . In: Die Welt , January 22, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2013
  7. ↑ Finsterworld  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Munich Film Festival. Retrieved June 19, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmfest-muenchen.de  
  8. ↑ Start of shooting for Finsterworld . ana-radica-presse.com. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.montreal-finsterworld-deutscher-film-gewinnt-preis-beim-world-film-festival.39c7b53e-3ab0-40c4-92c0-880e70ccaeac.html
  10. ↑ http://www.cologne-conference.de/de/programm/preisverleihungen/tv-spielfilm-preis/
  11. ↑ http://zff.com/en/festival-info/news/2013/#main-awards-mexico-denmark-germany-and-switzerland
  12. ^ Christian Kracht's 'Imperium' is a Melvillean Masterpiece of the South Seas. July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2016 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Finsterwalder, Frauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg