Helga Borsche

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Helga Borsche (born September 16, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German film editor .

Life

After Helga Borsche fled Berlin with her family at the end of the war, she ended up in Franconia . There she finished her school in 1957, whereupon she started an apprenticeship in the copier factory and the tricks department of Bavaria Film on the mediation of her stepfather and graduated successfully after three years. Thereupon Helga Borsche made her debut as the editor in charge of the television show Die Rückblende and gained a wide range of sound and image editing experience in industrial, documentary and music films. From the mid-1970s she worked with various directors of the New German Cinema , in particular with Michael Verhoeven and Hans W. Geißendörfer . She was responsible for editing well-known works such as Der Zauberberg , Domenica , Eine Liebe in Afrika or Margarete Steiff .

For the arthouse classic Ediths Tagebuch by Hans W. Geißendörfer, Helga Borsche won the German Film Award for Best Editing in 1984 .

Also in 1984 she was a founding member of the Federal Association of Film Editing Editor , of which she has been an honorary member since 2012 . She is also a member of the German Film Academy . In 2007 she was awarded the honorary prize of the Filmplus film festival , the most important German prize for film editors.

For over ten years she worked with the director and cameraman Xaver Schwarzenberger on all of his films.

From 1977 to 2002 she worked as a section -Lehrbeauftragte at the University of Television and Film Munich . Among the filmmakers she looked after were Roland Emmerich and Ute Wieland .

Today she lives near Munich.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Editing publishing house, Cologne: Helga Borsche ¦ Interviews ¦ Editing online. Retrieved August 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Federal Association of Film Editing Editor : Federal Association of Film Editing Editor e. V .: honorary members. Retrieved August 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Helga Borsche. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on May 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Borsche, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire