Gertrud Pinkus

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Orsa Gertrud Pinkus (born September 11, 1944 in Nennigkofen ) is a Swiss film and theater director .

Life

Gertrud Pinkus grew up as Gertrud Baumgartner in Bucheggberg near Solothurn. After an assistant stage design at the Stadttheater Basel , she completed her training as a stage designer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1965 to 1968 . University diploma in stage design. In addition, she attended directing courses at the Institute for Theater Studies in Munich. As a result, she staged plays and designed sets, but also took part in street and action theaters, performances, installations and art happenings.

From 1971 to 1975 Gertrud Pinkus worked at Proscop-Film in Frankfurt am Main , which made documentaries in coproduction with ARD and ZDF . During this time, Pinkus learned camera work, sound recording, assembly and production management. She worked u. a. in the films Isle of Wight (1971), Three Years After May (1971), Non piangere (1972) and Hablan los muros (1973).

From 1975 Gertrud Pinkus made her own documentaries on behalf of various production and television companies, and later also feature films . Her first feature film, Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio , was awarded the German Film Prize (film ribbon in silver). She became known in particular through Anna Göldin - Last Witch , a feature film based on the novel by Eveline Hasler .

In 1988 Gertrud Pinkus married Stephan Portmann ; her first marriage was to Marco Pinkus, father of a daughter. In 1993 she moved to Central America and lived in Mexico , Costa Rica and Guatemala ; In 2005 she returned to Switzerland, where she participated in interdisciplinary art projects with large-scale projections and video installations.

Since 2014, Gertrud Koch's Vorlass has been in the documentation center in Zurich, the Swiss-German location of the Swiss film archive .

Filmography

  • 1976: Chaindogs (documentary)
  • 1977: I own the night (documentary)
  • 1978: Hello Taxi (documentary)
  • 1980: A woman's greatest good is her silence ( Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio ; feature film)
  • 1981: Corazzù (documentary)
  • 1984: Duo Valentianos (feature film)
  • 1985: Never again - see you next time (feature film)
  • 1987: RAI (documentary)
  • 1987: Sidi bel abbès (documentary)
  • 1987: scarab
  • 1988: Off to the desert (documentary)
  • 1991: Anna Göldin - Last Witch (feature film)
  • 2006: Plant healer in the Amazon
  • 2014: made in Burkina (documentary)
  • 2015: SELVA (experimental film)
  • 2015: From the depths of the Limmat (experimental film)

Awards

  • German Film Prize 1981 (film ribbon in silver) for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • Special prize from the city of Mannheim for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • Television film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts at the Baden-Baden television film festival in 1981 for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • Zurich Film Prize 1981 for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • Film award of the Canton of Solothurn for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • Prize of the Association of German Critics for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • prix du public Festival des femme Paris for Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
  • German Youth Film Award 1985 for Never Again - see you next time
  • German Film Critics' Prize (Best Short Film) 1984/85 for Never Again - see you next time
  • Main Award at the Tunesyde Film Festival for "Duo Valentianos"
  • The rating of the film rating agency for "Duo Valentianos"
  • Hessian Film Award 1992 for leading actress Cornelia Kempers in Anna Göldin - Last Witch
  • Quality award from the EDI for Anna Göldin - Last Witch
  • Audience Award Festival Max Ophüls for "Anna Göldin - Last Witch"
  • Le Prix des femmes Figuiera de Foz for "Anna Göldin - Last Witch"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Pinkus at filmportal.de
  2. ^ Michael Gautier: Portmann, Stephan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Marcy Goldberg, Gertrud Pinkus: With your own camera there is no well-being cinema , in: Die Wochenzeitung 4/22. January 2015, https://www.woz.ch/-58ea
  4. ↑ Documentation Center
  5. ↑ Production data according to the Zurich film collective
personal data
SURNAME Pinkus, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinkus, Orsa Gertrud (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Nennigkofen