Jana Brandt

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Jana Brandt at the premiere of "Katharina Luther" 2017 in Berlin

Jana Brandt (born January 24, 1965 in Potsdam - Babelsberg ) is a German journalist, television editor and producer.

Life

Brandt, daughter of DEFA director Horst E. Brandt , began her professional career in 1983 with East German television in Berlin-Adlershof . From 1984 to 1988 she studied journalism at the University of Leipzig . During her studies she worked as a freelance writer for several film and television magazines. From 1988 to 1991 she worked as an editor in the feature film department of the GDR / DFF television.

From 1991 she worked in the Degeto / ARD film editorial team in Frankfurt am Main . Here she was responsible for the selection, broadcasting and support of feature films, television films and series in the first. She also oversaw numerous fictional in-house productions. In addition, from 1996 she was head of the "TV Product and Projects" division. She was responsible for buyout productions, commissioned productions and international co-productions.

In 1999 Brandt moved to mdr in Leipzig , where she has been the main editor-in-chief for feature films, series and children. Since 1999 she has also been a member of the joint editorial series in the main evening program of the ARD , which she has been leading since 2014. She is a member of the joint editorial team in the evening program of ARD and ARD coordinator for the series " Polizeiruf 110 ".

Your program concept is defined by emotional and socially relevant material. Her special focus is on contemporary German history and the historical-political analysis of the history of the GDR . Under her responsibility, individual films such as “Nackt unter Wölfen”, “Bornholmer Strasse”, “Katharina Luther” and “Lotte at the Bauhaus”, as well as multi-part films like “Der Turm”, were made. She is responsible for deliveries to the MDR for the series “Tatort” and “Polizeiruf 110” and for the crime series “Zorn” and “Wolfsland”. For the afternoon program she developed the telenovela “Storm of Love”. For years she has been responsible for the overall direction of the series “In all friendship”, “In all friendship - The young doctors” and “In all friendship - The nurses”. Under her direction, popular successes such as the series “Um Himmels Willen”, “Hubert und Staller”, “Familie Dr. Kleist "and" Veterinarian Dr. Mertens ”. She is also responsible for the horizontally narrated successful series “Weissensee” and “Charité”.

Filmography (selection)

Multi-part

Television films

Cinema co-productions

Series

Awards

  • 2003: For heaven's sake: German Television Award (Best Actor Fritz Wepper)
  • 2008: The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie: German Television Award (Best Actress Veronica Ferres)
  • 2010: Storm of Love: German Television Award (Audience Award)
  • 2011: Weissensee: German Television Award (Best Series)
  • 2013: The Tower: Grimme Prize (best multi-part), Jupiter Award (best TV film), audience Bambi
  • 2013: Blaubeerblau: Grimme Prize (Audience Award of the Marler Group), Robert Geisendörfer Prize (script and direction)
  • 2013: The way you are: Austrian Adult Education TV Award (Best TV Film), coproduction with ORF
  • 2014: In all friendship: audience Bambi
  • 2015: Bornholmer Straße: Grimme Prize (script, direction, performance and set design), Television Prize of the Academy for Television (best supporting role for Ullrich Matthes), Bambi (TV event of the year)
  • 2015/16: Naked Among Wolves: Seoul International Drama Awards (Best TV Movie), German TV Award (Best TV Movie), TV Award from the German Academy for Television (image design, nomination for best editorial)
  • 2016: Police call 110: Golden Hen (honorary award)
  • 2017: In the middle of Germany - NSU: German Television Award (best multi-part)
  • 2018: In all friendship: Goldene Henne (honorary award)
  • 2019: Lotte am Bauhaus: Seoul International Drama Awards Silver Bird (Best TV Movie)

Web links

Commons : Jana Brandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst E. Brandt. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ It doesn't hurt so much here. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Schönenborn becomes ARD television film coordinator. Accessed December 13, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ The cast of the joint editorial office on the evening before ARD has been determined. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ In all friendship: The true boss. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Krei: Jana Brandt: "Maybe our success will have a deterrent effect". DWDL.de, October 26, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 (eng).
  7. ↑ MDR co-production "Lotte am Bauhaus" twice successful at the "Seoul International Drama Awards 2019". Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Jana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, television editor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam - Babelsberg