Hava Kohav Beller

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Hava Kohav Beller (born Eva Stern ; * in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German screenwriter and director .

Life

Hava Kohav Beller grew up in a kibbutz near Haifa . Her mother, who came from Berlin , read German fairy tales like Struwwelpeter and Max and Moritz to her when she was a child, and as a teenager she read Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann . After studying music in Tel Aviv , she moved to New York , where she married, worked as a ballet choreographer and actress, and graduated from film school between 1979 and 1981. When one of her friends married a German in the early 1980s, she began to deal with Germany and the resistance in the Third Reich and decided to make a documentary.

She worked on The Restless Conscience for nine years . During this time she interviewed witnesses of the resistance, including Freya von Moltke , Axel von dem Bussche and Klaus von Dohnanyi . Financing caused difficulties; so she sold some paintings and worked as a ballet teacher and secretary, since as a freelance artist she could not get any bank loans. It was not until late that her work was supported by donations from the USA and Israel .

In 1992, The Restless Conscience was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary . In the following year, Beller received the Great Federal Cross of Merit from Richard von Weizsäcker . In 2002, The Burning Wall was made , a documentary about the opposition in the German Democratic Republic . She interviewed Wolf Biermann , Günter Grass and Egon Krenz , among others . The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1992: The Restless Conscience (The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945)
  • 2002: The Burning Wall

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konrad Adenauer Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Beller, Hava Kohav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main