Ingemo Engström

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Ingemo Engström (born October 15, 1941 in Jakobstad ) is a German film director and screenwriter of Finnish origin.

Life

The Finnlandschwedin Ingemo Engström has two siblings. Her father worked as a program manager at the Yleisradio broadcasting company and as a cultural politician. Engström graduated from high school in 1960 . She studied literature and psychology , later also medicine. She spent her studies from 1960 to 1965 in Helsinki , then in Hamburg and Munich . There she attended seminars at the German Institute for Film and Television (DIFF) together with Werner Herzog and Uwe Brandner . At the age of 24, she completed her literary studies with a diploma thesis on visual language with Ingeborg Bachmann and married a German doctor. Engström, together with Wim Wenders and Gerhard Theuring, belonged to the first class of the University of Television and Film Munich, which opened in 1967 . Her graduation film, Dark Spring (1970), was awarded the title “particularly valuable” and sold to several television stations, which enabled Engström to achieve her breakthrough as a filmmaker straight away. After divorcing her first husband, she married Gerhard Theuring. The couple have a daughter born in 1973. Engström worked for the magazine "Filmkritik" and worked as a film critic for Swedish-language magazines and for Finnish radio.

Filmography

  • 1968: Candy Man
  • 1969: Eros-Center Hamburg (actress)
  • 1970: Dark Spring
  • 1973: Two lovers and the most powerful on earth
  • 1975: fight for a child
  • 1975: storytelling (with Harun Farocki )
  • 1977: Escape route to Marseille (with Gerhard Theuring)
  • 1979: last love
  • 1986: Escape to the north
  • 1992: Ginevra
  • 1995: Mrs. Klein

Publications

  • Something about final pictures and my love for the continent , in: Filmkritik , Issue 231 from March 1976. - There are also some remarks about her own films Dark Spring and Kampf um ein Kind .
  • (Together with Gerhard Theuring :) Escape route to Marseille , in: Filmkritik , issue 254 from February 1978.

Awards

  • Josef von Sternberg Prize, Mannheim International Film Festival 1977
  • Award of Evangelical Film Work 1977 (for escape route to Marseille )
  • Golden Apple - Prix des femmes, Locarno International Film Festival 1978 (for escape route to Marseille )
  • FIPRESCI Prize , Locarno International Film Festival 1980 (for Last Love )
  • Silver plaque, Figueira da Foz Film Festival 1980 (for Last Love )
  • Prix ​​de la critique, Festival de Films de Femmes de Bruxelles 1981 (for Last Love )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Möhrmann: The woman with the camera. Filmmakers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Situation, perspectives, 10 exemplary CVs . Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1980, p. 121-122 .
  2. ↑ Renate Möhrmann: The woman with the camera. Filmmakers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Situation, perspectives, 10 exemplary CVs . Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1980, p. 123-124 .
  3. ↑ Renate Möhrmann: The woman with the camera. Filmmakers in the Federal Republic of Germany. Situation, perspectives, 10 exemplary CVs . Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1980, p. 127 .
  4. ^ Association of women film workers (ed.): Women film manual. Berlin 1983.
  5. ↑ Ingemo Engström. In: Deutsches Filmhaus. March 11, 2012, accessed May 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Engström, Ingemo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakobstad