Karola Hattop

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Karola Hattop (born December 26, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

After graduating from high school, Karola Hattop began an apprenticeship as a bank clerk, which she successfully completed. This was followed by a traineeship at the German television broadcasting company from 1968 to 1969 and then to 1973 studying directing at the University of Film and Television . She completed this with the diploma film Werner Tübke . From 1973 to 1991 she was active as a director for film and television, from 1979 onwards she mainly devoted herself to children's and family films.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Hattop founded Phantasios-Filmproduktion in 1990, for which she worked as a director and author. In 1992, her only DEFA film, An Elephant in the Hospital, was released in cinemas and received several awards. Hattop has been working as a freelance director and author since 1994, initially devoting herself to entertainment films and series on television, and since the 2000s has been increasingly working in the children's and youth film sector. One of her greatest successes as a director is the feature film Who Kisses an Iguana? from 2003, which was nominated for the Grimme Prize and was awarded the Golden Spatz and the European Children's Film Prize, as well as the multi-part children's film Prinz und Bottel (2009), also nominated for the Grimme Prize.

Hattop lives with her husband, the cameraman Hans Hattop, near Berlin. Their son Sebastian Hattop (* 1973) is also a cameraman.

Filmography

Awards (selection)

  • 1985: Nomination for the Golden Sparrow for My Father in the Ink
  • 2003: European Children's Film Award for Who Kisses an Iguana?
  • 2004: Prize of the Children's Jury at the Montréal International Children's Film Festival for Who Kisses an Iguana?
  • 2005: Goldener Spatz as the best German children's film for Who kisses an iguana?
  • 2007: Rober Geisendörfer Prize for Our Ten Commandments
  • 2011: Emil the TV feature film for Prince and Bottel

literature

  • Karola Hattop . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , p. 428.

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personal data
SURNAME Hattop, Karola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin