Heidi Wittlinger
Heidi Wittlinger (born November 30, 1978 in Stuttgart ) is a German director , illustrator and animator .
Life
After graduating from high school at Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium Nagold, Heidi Wittlinger completed internships in Nagold , Stuttgart and in Binyamina, Israel in 1997 . From October 1998 she studied animation at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . With Arvid Uibel (1976-2000) and Chris Stenner , she began working on the partially computer-animated stop-motion short film Das Rad as part of her studies at the end of 1999 . They worked with a frame grabber that they only had available for six weeks and therefore animated the film alternately in shifts. When the film was about to go into post-production, Uibel died unexpectedly. Stenner and Wittlinger decided after several months to finish the film. They dedicated it to Uibel with the line “for Arvid”. The bike was completed in May 2001. Stenner and Wittlinger were nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " for the film.
Wittlinger finished her studies in 2004. She then worked as a director at Studio Aka in London and is now a freelance designer , illustrator and animator. Among other things, she created the character Oki in the children's film The Miracle of Loch Ness for Trixter . She created the successful apps Kleiner Fuchs Kinderlieder and Schlaf gut with Shape Minds Berlin. Sleep well was also published as a picture book in 2012.
Wittlinger is married to the politician, publicist and advertising expert Sebastian Turner . The couple have three children together and a son from Turner's first marriage .
Filmography
- 1998: Decoy
- 1999: Headless
- 1999: egg
- 2001: the wheel
- 2001: A Christmas fairy tale
- 2004: Sheepless
- 2004: No Limits
- 2005: hangover
- 2007: The three robbers
- 2008: Jasper and the lemonade conspiracy
- 2008: The Wonder of Loch Ness
Awards
- 2002: Special Jury Prize and Special First Animation Award of the Anima Mundi Animation Festival for Das Rad
- 2002: Best student / graduation film, Festival d'Animation Annecy for Das Rad
- 2002: Audience Award, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, for Das Rad
- 2002: Hasso, Bunter Hund - International Short Film Festival Munich , for Das Rad
- 2003: Oscar nomination , Best Animated Short Film , for Das Rad
Web links
- Heidi Wittlinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heidi Wittlinger's homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nagold is sometimes also given as the city of birth.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Well then good night! 100 women of tomorrow - land of ideas
- ↑ See press release on ravensburger.de
- ↑ OB candidate. Turner has become the father of twins , stuttgarter-Zeitung, September 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittlinger, Heidi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animator, director and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |