Katharina Geinitz

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Katharina Geinitz , pseudonym Katharina Rosa , (born on September 14, 1946 in Kiel ; died on January 10, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German documentary filmmaker , editor and sound engineer .

Career

Katharina Geinitz attended school in Kiel and Neumünster and trained as a veterinary medical assistant . From 1976 to 1983 she studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . During her studies she worked on her own films on the anti-nuclear movement and gained her first experience in commercial film, especially as a sound assistant . The work in Elfi Mikesch's team on What should we do without death (1980) had a major impact on her cinematic work .

Geinitz was one of the founders of the Association of Female Film Workers (1979–2009), who in 1979 made extensive demands on gender equality in the film industry in a manifesto .

She completed her studies with the documentary Handel & Wandel , which premiered in 1984 at the Berlinale Forum . The film is an intimate portrait of the flea market dealer Elke Matz.

“The film Handel und Wandel is not just a declaration of love to my friend Elke M. - it is a piece of life, put together from individual episodes to form a personal story that could be the story of all people under changed living conditions: an intense, lively life, in which work and making money have not degenerated into prostitution. "

- Katharina Geinitz : Berlin International Film Festival

Films with Helga Reidemeister

In 1978 she began working with the documentary filmmaker Helga Reidemeister , which would last for more than 30 years. Mostly as a sound engineer or assistant director, Geinitz was involved in the federal film award-winning films Von Due “Schicksal” (1979) and With starrem Blick zum Geld (1983), as well as the film portraits of Karola Bloch (1982) and Ernst Bloch (1983) and Rudi Dutschke (1988).

RosaMarsFilm

During filming and protests against the murder attack in Mölln , the collaboration with filmmaker and musician Lottie Marsau began , which led to the founding of the film production company RosaMarsFilm in 1995 . Marsau had already researched in Tibet for more than two years and filmed it with a 16 mm Bolex camera.

After traveling together in Tibet, the documentary China Tibet? , who was awarded the prize for the special documentary film in 1996 at the 11th International Documentary Film Festival in Munich . Explanations by the Dalai Lama on the situation in Tibet frame the film report with "didactically explanatory commentary, which the beautiful, poetic, grainy 16-mm pictures serve for illustration". Video copies of the 36-minute short film were shown at many events organized by the Tibet Initiative Germany .

In 1996, the documentary Aus Tibet - a homeland film followed , a poetic-political journey through today's Tibet with images of everyday life, of the Chinese military in Ngari , the death mounds near Xigazê , wall paintings in the ruined city of Tsaparang and nomads on their paths through the mountains. The cultural historian Horst Südkamp called the film a "scenic symphony". The "Heimatfilm" was the opening film of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck , was shown at the 12th International Documentary Film Festival in Munich and was awarded the Documentary Film Prize at the Days of Independent Film Osnabrück .

In 2003, the documentary Tot in Lübeck about the Lübeck arson attack premiered at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon . The film examines the “legal failure to resolve the attack” in detailed interviews with the Schleswig-Holstein attorney general Erhard Rex and the attorney Gabriele Heinecke, commented on by the cabaret artist Dietrich Kittner . The first filming took place shortly after the attack, in 1997 the Lübeck Moritat (ballad about general innocence in the country) was recorded by Dietrich Kittner. The completion of the film was delayed by the trials against an unjustifiably suspected resident and by the repeatedly discontinued investigations against right-wing extremist youth from Grevesmühlen. Tot in Lübeck was also shown at the 18th Munich International Documentary Film Festival and in the competition at the One World 2004 film festival in Prague.

Filmography

Own films

  • 1976: Brokdorf 1976 - director
  • 1976: Greetings from LD (Lüchow-Dannenberg), lost - director
  • 1984: Commerce and Change - screenplay, sound, camera, direction

RosaMarsFilm

  • 1994: Leder vom Dach der Welt ( GTZ commissioned production) - sound, editing, direction
  • 1995: China's Tibet? - Sound, editing, direction
  • 1996: From Tibet - a homeland film - sound, editing, direction
  • 2003: Tot in Lübeck - screenplay, sound, editing, direction

Films by Helga Reidemeister

  • 1979: Not because of "fate" - sound, assistant director
  • 1982: Karola Bloch - Then the woman takes matters into her own hands - sound, assistant director
  • 1983: Ernst and Karola Bloch - The Tübingen time - sound, assistant director
  • 1983: With a fixed view of the money - I put hoof in front of hoof - camera assistant, sound
  • 1987: location Berlin - sound
  • 1988: Walking upright, Rudi Dutschke - tracks - sound, editing
  • 1992: Rodina means home - clay
  • 2001: Gotteszell - A women's prison - screenplay, assistant director
  • 2009: My heart sees the world black - one love in Kabul tone

Others

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The manifesto of Women Film Workers (1979) . In: Richard McCormick, Alison Guenther-Pal: German Essays on Film , Continuum Int. Publ., New York 2004, ISBN 0-8264-1506-7 ; P. 235 ff. ( Online )
  2. ↑ a b Trade and Change data sheet from the Berlinale Forum
  3. ↑ Competition: China's Tibet? 11th International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1996 on artechock
  4. ^ Silvia Hallensleben: Diaries from Tibet. How projectors project propaganda Tagesspiegel , August 7, 2008
  5. ↑ From Tibet - a homeland film ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Film description and download from Absolut Medien @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.absolutondemand.de
  6. ↑ Horst Südkamp: The scenic symphony: From Tibet - a home film ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 551 kB), cultural-historical studies on horstsuedkamp.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horstsuedkamp.de
  7. ↑ Aus Tibet - Ein Heimatfilm , 12th International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1996 on artechock
  8. ↑ Dead in Lübeck  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Visions du Réel archive 2003@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.visionsdureel.ch  
  9. ↑ Industriemuseum shows documentary film “Tot in Lübeck” ( Memento from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, November 3, 2004
  10. ↑ Kittner comes: Cabaret artist carries "Lübecker Moritat" in front of the Lübecker Stadtzeitung, October 19, 1999
  11. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Vogel: Just not a real trace! The investigative work of the police encourages right-wing extremist offenders Taz , August 6, 2012
  12. ↑ International program 2003: Tot in Lübeck DOK.fest Munich, Catalog 2003 (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  13. ^ Death in Lübeck , One World 2004
personal data
SURNAME Geinitz, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosa, Katharina (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer, editor and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2012
Place of death Berlin