Katharina Rohrer

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Katharina Rohrer (also Kat Rohrer ; * 1980 in Vienna ) is an Austrian film director .

life and work

Rohrer spent her childhood and youth in Vienna. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York . Her graduate film The Search was awarded as best short film at the La Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles . In 2002 she founded the film production company GreenKat Productions with Tom Greenman . In 2009 her short film Fatal Promises , which deals with human trafficking , was shown at the European Forum Alpbach .

The documentary Back to the Fatherland , which was completed in 2017, was shown at international film festivals and received a lot of media attention. The film was registered for the Austrian Film Prize 2019 .

Katharina Rohrer is the daughter of the journalist Anneliese Rohrer . She lives in Vienna and New York.

Films (selection)

Documentaries

  • 2003 Dancing at the Workman's Circle
  • 2006 Larry Flynt - the right to be left alone
  • 2007 Dreams of Freedom
  • 2008 Through our children's eyes
  • 2009 Fatal Promises (short film about human trafficking)
  • 2017 Back to the Fatherland (co-director with Gil Levanon)

Short films

  • 2003 Red Book
  • 2003 redundancy
  • 2004 The Search
  • 2005 Beach Lane Project (co-producer)
  • 2005 Rachmaninov (producer)
  • 2006 The 80s - I've played my part
  • 2006 Absolute Calm (producer)

Awards (selection)

  • 2005 Award for the best short film at the La Femme Film Festival, Los Angeles (for The Search )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d falter.at of October 10, 2018: Mined memory ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  2. ↑ alpbach.org: Fatal Promises - Documentary ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  3. ↑ wjff.org: Back to the Fatherland ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  4. ^ Diagonale.at: Back to the Fatherland ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  5. ↑ sz-online.de from November 6, 2017: Back to the Fatherland ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on October 10, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  6. ↑ timesofisrael.com of April 14, 2018: Granddaughters of Nazi officer, Holocaust survivor fall in love making film ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  7. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de from October 12, 2017: The Longing of Young Israelis for Germany ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  8. ↑ diplomaticconnections.com of May 2018: Washington Jewish Film Festival: Back to the Fatherland ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  9. ↑ giessener-allgemeine.de of November 17, 2017: Back to the lost home ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  10. ↑ diepresse.com of October 14, 2017: What to do with the past? ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  11. ↑ ots.at of June 7, 2005: First place for Austrian short film ; accessed on October 10, 2018
  12. ↑ derstandard.at of June 13, 2005: Austrian short film wins at La Femme Festival ; accessed on October 10, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Rohrer, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrer, cat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna