Helga Reidemeister

Helga Reidemeister, 2011, photography

Helga Reidemeister (born February 4, 1940 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German documentary filmmaker .

Life

Helga Reidemeister graduated from high school in 1959 in Cologne, studied from 1961 to 1965 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was then from 1968 to 1973 in the social work involved before 1973-1978 at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin studied . In 1969 their daughter was born; From 1970 Helga Reidemeister lived in a Berlin flat-sharing community to which Rudi Dutschke belonged until his death.

Reidemeister is a lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in the field of documentary film and has been teaching at home and abroad since 1988. She is a member of the German Film Academy and the Lower Saxony Film Commission. and since 2001 member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Filmography

• Resident Social, Haste Qual (1971), director
• The Wollands (1973), screenplay
• The Bought Dream (1977), directed
• Because of "Destiny" (1979), screenplay and direction
• With a fixed eye on money (1983), screenplay and direction
• DrehOrt Berlin (1987), screenplay and direction
• Walking upright, Rudi Dutschke - traces (1988), screenplay and direction
• In the Glance of this Happiness (1990), director
• Rodina is called Heimat (1992), screenplay and direction
• Gangrene Sarajevo - 17 days in August (1994; direction and screenplay: Didi Danquart and Johann Feindt ), collaboration
• Women in Black (1997), screenplay and direction
• Lights from the Background (1998), screenplay, production and direction
• Stay in Life (1999, made-for-TV), director
• Gotteszell - A Women's Prison (2001), screenplay, production and direction
• Texas - Kabul (2004), screenplay, production and direction
• Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005; director and screenplay: Rosa von Praunheim ), collaboration
• My heart sees the world black - One love in Kabul (2009), screenplay, production and direction
• Saida und der Schnee (2011, direction and script concept: Judith Beuth), editor
• Meanwhile in Mamelodi (2011; direction and script concept: Benjamin Kahlmeyer), line producer
• Splitter Afghanistan (2015), director

Awards

• German Film Award in Gold for From Because of Fate , 1979 (Best Young Director)
• Honorable recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize , 1980
• German Film Award, 1983
• Grand Prize at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival for With a rigid view of money , 1984
• Peace film award for Rodina means Heimat , 1992
• Cinéma du réel, 2001
• Dortmund Documentary Award, 2011

literature

• Between lust and burden - five women and their films , director: Natalie Kreisz; Julia M. Novak, 58 min., 1999

Web links

Commons : Helga Reidemeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Helga Reidemeister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Helga Reidemeister in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Helga Reidemeister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Why is filmmaking a social mandate for you? An interview with Helga Reidemeister Deutschlandradio Kultur , June 16, 2015, audio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marc Silberman: Interview with Helga Reidemeister in Jump Cut No. 27, July 1982, pages 44/45. (engl.)
2. ^ The last one from Waltraud Schwab's Dutschke flat share , taz , March 7, 2005
3. ↑ Helga Reidemeister , Filmportal , accessed on June 17, 2012.
4. ↑ Helga Reidemeister ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2008 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. , Cineforum.bz.it, accessed June 17, 2012.  
5. ↑ Members ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 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. , German Film Academy, accessed on June 17, 2012 
6. ↑ Texas - Kabul (2004), Basis-Film Verleih
7. ↑ My heart sees the world black (2009), Basis-Film Verleih
8. ↑ Splitter Afghanistan (2015), Basis-Film Verleih, Trailer
9. ↑ German Film Prize, 1979 ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 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.