Gesa Marten

Gesa Marten (* 1963 ) is a German film editor and dramaturge , she lives in Potsdam and Cologne.

life and work

Gesa Marten studied theater, film and television studies, German and philosophy in Paris, Munich and Cologne . She has been working as a freelance film editor and dramaturge since 1991. Her work has received numerous awards, including a nomination for the German Television Prize in 2000 in the Best Editing category and the Grimme Prize several times . Since 2014 she has been professor for artistic montage of feature and documentary film at the Babelsberg Film University . Gesa Marten was a founding member of the documentary film women network LaDOC in 2003.

Gesa Marten is a member of the German and European Film Academy as well as the Federal Association of Film Editing Editor eV (BFS) .

Filmography (selection)

• 1992: Fritz and Erna (documentary short film) - Director: Lars Büchel
• 1993: Chuppa (documentary) - directed by Sascha Schneider & Laurie Schneider
• 1997: Sarajlija (documentary) - Director: Gordan Godec
• 2000: Losing weight in Essen (TV documentary series) - directed by Claus-Ludwig Rettinger & Claudia Richarz
• 2003: The Crocodiles of the Wandaogo Family (Documentary) - Director: Britta Wandaogo
• 2004: what do you live? (Documentary film trilogy, part 1) - Director: Bettina Braun
• 2005: Geschwister Vogelbach (TV documentary) - Director: Luzia Schmid
• 2006: Life with Hannah (feature film) - Director: Erica von Moeller
• 2007: Lost in Liberia (documentary) - Director: Luzia Schmid
• 2007: The Inconvenient - The Poet Günter Grass (Documentary) - Director: Nadja Franz & Sigrun Matthiassen
• 2008: Fräulein Stinnes drives around the world (docudrama) - Director: Erica von Moeller
• 2008: Perestroika - conversion of an apartment (documentary) - director: Christiane Büchner
• 2008: What you want (documentary film trilogy, part 2) - Director: Bettina Braun
• 2009: LowLights - One Night, One Ritual (feature film) - Director: Ingas Miškinis
• 2009: encore. Talent test - A reunion (documentary) - Director: Manfred Behrens
• 2010: On the safe side (documentary) - directed by Lukas Schmid & Corinna Wichmann
• 2010: Exit Eden (documentary) - directed by Jürgen Brügger & Jörg Haassengier
• 2011: where are you? (Documentary film trilogy, part 3) - Director: Bettina Braun
• 2012: Sweet Poison - Help as a Business (Documentary) - Director: Peter Heller
• 2013: The Order of Things (Documentary) - Director: Jürgen Brügger & Jörg Haassengier
• 2014: See me disappear (documentary) - Director: Kiki Allgeier
• 2014: The Last Gigolos (documentary) - Director: Stephan Bergmann

Awards

• 2000 nomination for the German TV Prize , Best Editing: Losing Weight in Essen
• 2004 nomination for the German Camera Award , Best Editing Documentary: Die Krokodile der Wandaogo
• 2004 nomination for the German Camera Prize, Best Editing Short Film: Im moment
• 2005 Filmplus Editing Prize Documentary: What do you live?
• 2006 nomination for the German Camera Prize, Best Editing Documentary: Geschwister Vogelbach
• 2008 nomination for Filmplus Editing Award Documentary: Lost in Liberia
• 2009 Filmplus Editing Award Documentary: Perestroika - Remodeling an Apartment
• 2013 Grimme Prize for the documentary film trilogy: What do you live? , What you want & where are you?
• 2016 Grimme Prize for: Organizing things

literature

• 2007: Film Editing - Dramatizing Life! In: Schnitt - Das Filmmagazin, issue 48, April 2007, pp. 14-17
• 2009: The ABC of documentary film montage. In: Ottersbach, Béatrice / Schadt, Thomas (ed.): Film editing confessions. Constance: UVK, pp. 174-182
• 2013: Anyone who wants to assemble a documentary has to be prepared to live modestly. Interview by Kyra Scheurer. In: Kurzschnitt - BFS members in conversation

Web links

• Gesa Marten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gesa Marten at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nominated 2000 ›German Television Award 2016. In: www.deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved April 30, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Grimme Institute: Grimme Prize | What do you live What do you want- where are you? (No longer available online.) In: www.grimme-institut.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Grimme Institute: Grimme Prize | Organizing things (ZDF / ARTE). (No longer available online.) In: www.grimme-institut.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ADOLF GRIMME INSTITUT - Prize Winner. (No longer available online.) In: www.grimme-institut.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Teachers. (No longer available online.) In: www.filmuniversitaet.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ LaDOC - The documentary Women's Network Cologne »LaDOC | Documentary Women Network Cologne. (No longer available online.) In: ladoc.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV: Profile. In: bfs-filmeditor.de. Retrieved April 30, 2016 . 
8. ^ Filmplus 2005, jury statement. Retrieved May 13, 2016 . 
9. ↑ German Camera Prize 2006, nominations in the category documentary film / feature. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 13, 2016 .  ( 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.    
10. ^ Filmplus 2008, nominations documentary film. Retrieved May 13, 2016 . 
11. ^ Filmplus 2009, award winner. Retrieved May 13, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Grimme Prize 2013, jury statement. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 13, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Grimme Prize 2016, jury statement. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.