Heide Schwochow

Heide Schwochow at the 2015 Grimme Prize

Heide Schwochow (* 1953 in Stralsund ) is a German screenwriter .

Life

Heide Schwochow grew up in Bergen on Rügen and studied education at the University of Leipzig . She then studied directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . From 1987 to 1989 she was an author and director in the radio drama / children's radio play department of the GDR radio . From 1990 to 1993 she studied journalism at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . She then worked as a freelance journalist. In addition, she was a lecturer at universities in Hanover, Göttingen and Leipzig. From 1996 to 2001 she was program director at the Leipzig university radio `` mephisto 97,6 '' . Together with her husband Rainer Schwochow, she wrote and staged several radio features and radio plays .

She made her debut as a screenwriter in 2006 with the children's film Marta and the Flying Grandfather , directed by her son Christian Schwochow . She also wrote the following films, November Child and The Invisible , with him. Together they were nominated for Best Screenplay at the 2009 German Film Awards.

Heide Schwochow is a member of the German Film Academy and has been on the board since 2016.

Filmography

• 2006: Marta and the flying grandfather
• 2008: November child
• 2011: The invisible one
• 2013: west
• 2014: Bornholmer Strasse
• 2017: Regional Court - Story of a Family
• 2018: We're sisters after all
• 2019: German lesson , film adaptation

Awards

• 2003: German Social Award for the radio feature Lebensraum Knast (author and director)
• 2005: European Medical Journalist Award for the radio feature Hortis Sanitatis (author and director)
• 2008: Robert Geisendörfer Prize for the radio feature The World Justice Bazaar. The "case of Bhutan" and the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (director, author: Jörn Klare )
• 2007: Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis and Schwerin Film Festival: Audience Award for Novemberkind
• 2009: German Film Award - nomination in the category Best Screenplay for November Child
• 2012: German Film Award - nomination in the category Best Screenplay - unfilmed for the West
• 2012: Prize of the German Film Critics - nomination in the category Best Screenplay for Die Insichtbare
• 2014: Bambi for the “TV event of the year” for Bornholmer Straße
• 2015: Grimme Prize for Bornholmer Strasse , screenplay
• 2017: Seoul International Drama Award Golden Bird for District Court - Story of a Family
• 2018: Grimme Prize for Regional Court - Story of a Family , Screenplay

Web links

Commons : Heide Schwochow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heide Schwochow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heide Schwochow at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heide Schwochow ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , players.de 
2. ^ Heide Schwochow , filmportal.de
3. ↑ Heide Schwochow. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed March 8, 2019 .