Jeanine Meerapfel

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Jeanine Meerapfel (1981)

Jeanine Meerapfel (born June 14, 1943 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a German-Argentinian film director , screenwriter and film lecturer . She has been President of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2015 .

Career

Jeanine Meerapfel grew up in Argentina as the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants. From 1961 to 1964 she attended the journalism school in Buenos Aires and worked as an editor and freelance journalist. At the same time she studied screenwriting with Simón Feldman. In 1964 she came to Germany and studied with a DAAD scholarship from 1964 to 1968 at the Institute for Film Design at the Ulm School of Design , a. a. with Alexander Kluge . From 1970 to 1980, Meerapfel worked as a film critic and conducted film seminars in Ulm and at various Goethe Institutes . In 1981 she made her feature film debut with Malou , which was followed by eleven films by 2012. In Meerapfel's film La Amiga - The Girlfriend (1988), Liv Ullmann plays a mother whose son disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship and who fights for human rights; the film was made under difficult conditions.

Jeanine Meerapfel's film archive has been part of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2002.

In 1984 she was a member of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival . In 1990 Meerapfel received a professorship (with a focus on directing documentaries and feature films) at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1998 and was elected President on May 30, 2015 to succeed Klaus Staeck .

In 2011 she shot in Frankfurt am Main a . a. the feature film Der Deutschen Freund , a German-Argentinian co-production that came to the cinema in late 2012.

Jeanine Meerapfel also speaks publicly on questions of film policy, for example in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt at the Festival of New Latin American Films in Havana.

Films (selection)

Jeanine Meerapfel at the Montreal International Film Festival, with Ricardo Darín and José Miguel Onaindia (2001)
  • Distance ( short film , 1966)
  • Zwickel auf Bizyckel (collective film, 1969; completed 1997)
  • In the Land of My Parents ( documentary , 1981)
  • Malou (1981; 2019 digitally restored version)
  • While Europe Still Exists - Questions for Peace (1984)
  • The Caraway Turkey Goes (1985)
  • The Lovers (1987)
  • La Amiga: The Girlfriend (La amiga) (1988)
  • 13 minutes to twelve in Lima (TV, 1989)
  • Desembarcos (1989)
  • In the shine of this happiness (collective film, 1990)
  • Amigomío (1994)
  • Anna's Summer (2001)
  • The German Friend (El amigo alemán) (2012)
  • Confusion / Diffusion (2014)

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jeanine Meerapfel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Structure and tasks. Academy of the Arts , accessed July 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Jeanine Meerapfel Archive. Academy of the Arts, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Biography of Jeanine Meerapfel at the Deutsches Filmhaus
  4. ↑ Interview with Jeanine Meerapfel: Ultimately, it's about knowing your own feelings. zeit.de, December 18, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2016 .
  5. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Captured in the Theater of History , article from November 6, 2012; accessed on December 1, 2013.
  6. ↑ "The films are celebrated like nowhere else", in: Junge Welt, December 18, 2019, p. 3.
  7. ↑ Malou. In: www.berlinale.de. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sea apple, Jeanine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian-German film director, screenwriter and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina