Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (born November 20, 1940 in Emden , East Friesland , † May 27, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
After finishing school, she studied German and English in Cologne , sat in on the radio, became a television announcer and worked as a photo model. During a stay in Italy in 1967 she met Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Corbucci and worked with them. Since 1969 she has been making her own films, often strongly autobiographical, wrote almost all of the scripts and produced many of her films herself.
Your first films dealt critically with the world of work and the situation of women in West Germany. Under the pavement the beach has become a central film of the German women's movement and the 1968 movement . Especially with Germany, pale mother , she became one of the most important, globally celebrated directors in Germany. In addition to feature films, she made several documentaries and wrote radio plays.
Her films have won many film and festival prizes, she became Officier des French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2003 she was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .
Helma Sanders-Brahms died on May 27, 2014 after a long illness at the age of 73 in Berlin. Helma Sanders-Brahms was buried in the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
She was a great, great, great-niece of the composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
Filmography
Feature and television films
- 1970: Violence (TV movie)
- 1973: The Last Days of Gomorrah (TV movie)
- 1974: The beach is under the pavement
- 1975: Earthquake in Chili (TV movie)
- 1976: Shirin's wedding
- 1977: Heinrich
- 1980: Germany, pale mother
- 1981: The Touched One
- 1984: Wings and Shackles (L'Avenir d'Emilie)
- 1986: Laputa
- 1987: Felix - Episode 1: He at the End
- 1989: maneuvers
- 1992: apple trees
- 1997: My Heart - Nobody!
- 2003: The color of the soul
- 2008: Beloved Clara
Documentaries
- 1969: Angelika Urban, saleswoman, engaged (through a saleswoman in the Kaufhof)
- 1971: The Industrial Reserve Army (on the situation of migrant workers )
- 1973: The Machine (about working on a rotary press)
- 1980: Vringsveedeler Triptychon , 1st left wing: In the realm of the Chocolate King , 2nd middle part: Rievkooche Madonna , 3rd right wing: Joseph and Justice (about the poor people's carnival in Cologne)
- 1985: Alte Liebe (about the old Berlin cinema owner Bruno Dunst and his wife)
- 1987: Hermann my father (about a trip that Sanders-Brahms undertakes with her father to France, to the places where he was as a German occupier in 1940)
- 1995: Live Now - Jews in Berlin (via a Russian-Jewish family who moved from Odessa to Berlin)
- 2012: Like a miracle - the singing cinema of Mr. Heymann - about the most important film composer of the Weimar Republic Werner Richard Heymann
Radio plays
- 1995: Anna fearful rabbit . Children's radio play; Music: Lars Kurz; Director: Eva Demmelhuber; Production: BR, 1995. (Patmos audio cassette, 1996, ISBN 3-491-22906-5 )
- 1993-2001: A Thousand and One Nights. 1st to 14th night , with Eva Mattes , Dieter Mann , Ulrich Matthes u. a. Music: Günter "Baby" Sommer . Directors: Robert Matejka (1–12) and Helma Sanders-Brahms (13–14). Production: RIAS, later: DLR Berlin. (Der Hörverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89940-647-8 ; awarded the Corine Audiobook Prize 2005.)
- 2002: A thousand and one nights. 15th to 17th night . With: Eva Mattes, Dieter Mann , Ulrich Matthes u. a. Music: Günter Baby Sommer. Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms. Production: DLR Berlin.
Books
- Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler , Rowohlt Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-499-22535-2
- The fulfillment of wishes . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88520-544-0 .
- Germany, pale mother. Film narrative , rororo new woman, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-14453-0
literature
- Brigitte Tast: Helma Sanders-Brahms (googly eyes material collection No. 8). E. Lory Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-88842-108-X .
- Norbert Grob (Ed.): The dark between the pictures. Essays, portraits, reviews . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-88661-132-9 .
- Steven Taubeneck: Helma Sanders-Brahms: An Introduction , in: Jacqueline Levitin et al. (Ed.): Women Filmmakers: Refocusing , Routledge 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-96782-2 , pp. 65-77
- Helma Sanders-Brahms , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2010 of October 26, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Helma Sanders-Brahms in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helma Sanders-Brahms at filmportal.de
- Helma Sanders-Brahms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituaries:
- Jutta Brückner : The female gaze - a male myth. On the death of Helma Sanders-Brahms: How a generation of women directors was lost (texts from FAZ blog and Emma)
- Berlin filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahm died at 73 Berliner Morgenpost
- Mother of Archetypes , by Susan Vahabzadeh, Süddeutsche Zeitung
- The Touchable , by Daniela Sannwald, Der Tagesspiegel
- "Germany, pale mother": film director Helma Sanders-Brahms dies Der Spiegel
- Harvest time for Helma - shortly before the end, by Ute Lipperheide, Emder Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ stern.de - Filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms dies ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hartmut Palmer: Helma Sanders-Brahms: Films to Survive in: Cicero from October 28, 2010. Accessed January 23, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanders-Brahms, Helma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden , East Frisia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2014 |
| Place of death | Berlin |