Katja Benrath

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Katja Benrath with the producers and the leading actress of Rocca changes the world

Katja Benrath (born September 1, 1979 in Erbach (Odenwald) ) is a German actress and director .

Life

Katja Benrath grew up in Stockstadt am Main . After her parents separated, she moved to Lübeck with her mother at the age of nine. After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck , she did an apprenticeship as a tailor at the Wuppertaler Bühnen theater and sewed for Pina Bausch, among others .

From 2002 to 2006 she studied acting and singing at the Vienna Conservatory in Vienna . She played in film and television productions, in the theater and in musicals .

After starting to write and direct short films , she studied at the Hamburg Media School from 2014 , from which she graduated in 2016 with a Master of Arts in film . Her thesis, the film Watu Wote - All of us , won a Gold Student Academy Award ( student oscar ) in 2017 in the Narrative (International Film Schools) category and was nominated for the 2018 Oscar in the Best Short Film category.

Her short films Tilda , In Heaven you don't puke and Puppenspiel have been awarded the title of Particularly Valuable by the German Film and Media Evaluation .

In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

actress

Director

German Cancer Aid Prize

Director Katja Benrath and producer Steffi Ackermann (Warner Bros. Germany) received the first “Smoke-free Seal of Honor” in 2019 for the family film Rocca changes the world , in recognition of the fact that the story of the eleven-year-old Rocca managed without smoking scenes . By the German Foundation for Cancer Aid and the Coalition for Smoking (ABNR) award award was at an international press conference on World No Tobacco Day in Berlin in May of cancer aid CEO Gerd Nettekoven and ABNR-chairman Martina Pötschke-Langer presented to the winners. In his thanks to the filmmakers, Nettekoven complained that “the social trend towards not smoking is not adequately reflected in films”. This has to change. Krebshilfe and ABNR announced that they will continue to award the honorary award to socially conscious filmmakers in recognition of their exemplary achievements.

Awards

Puppet Show 2011:

  • Predicate particularly valuable
  • Écu- European Film Festival - best director
  • Canada int. Film Festival - Royal Reel Award

You don't throw up in heaven 2013-2014:

  • Predicate particularly valuable
  • Murnau short film award from the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation for In Heaven you don't throw up
  • Filmzeit Kaufbeuren innovation award
  • Houston International Film Festival - Platinum Remi Award
  • Naoussa International Film Festival, Greece - Best Score (E. Kaplan, F. Hirschmann)
  • Oder short film spectacle - audience award
  • Malta Int. Short Film Festival - Golden Night Award

Swimming lesson 2015/16

  • Filmzeit Kaufbeuren - Innovation Award
  • Contrast - The Bayreuth Festival - 2nd place audience award

Where were you 2015-2016

  • Giffoni Film Festival - 2nd Gryphon Award for Best Short Film

Watu Wote - All of us 2017

  • Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award for Watu Wote - All of us
  • 2017 : Student Academy Award for Watu Wote - All of us * 44th Student Academy Awards , USA: Narrative (International Film Schools)
  • DC Shorts Film Festival , Washington, USA: Audience Favorite Award
  • Alpinale , Nenzing, Austria: Best University Film, The Golden Unicorn & 2nd place audience award
  • Five Lakes Film Festival , Gilching: Audience Award for Short Film
  • OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg: Audience Award
  • Shorts at Moonlight, Frankfurt: Short Film Award
  • Durban International Film Festival, Durban, South Africa: Best African Short Film
  • Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania: Best African Film
  • German Camera Award 2017, Young Talent Award of the German Camera Award, camera: Felix Striegel
  • Wendland Shorts Short Film Festival: Audience Award & Golden Rule Producer Award
  • Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, USA: Best Narrative Short
  • Leiden International Short Film Experience, Netherlands: Audience Choice Award
  • Bermuda International Film Festival, USA: Best Short Film & Audience Award
  • Sehsuchten International Student Film Festival, Potsdam-Babelsberg: Audience Award & Best Production
  • San Sebastian International Human Rights Film Festival, Spain: Best Short Film
  • GRR Giovani Registi Raccontano, Ravenna, Italy: International School And Academy Award
  • Annual Port Townsend Film Festival, WA, USA: Official Selection
  • The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus: International Competition
  • BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: Competition
  • HollyShorts Film Festival, LA, USA: Official Selection
  • LA Shorts International Film Festival, USA: Competition
  • Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel: competition
  • Eat My Shorts - Hagen Short Film Festival 2017: 2nd place
  • Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2017: Best Short Film
  • First Steps , Berlin: Nominated in the “Short and Animated Film” category and “NO FEAR” award for young producers
  • Biberacher Film Festival - short film beaver
  • FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema - winner of the medium-length film competition
  • Peace Prize of German Film - Die Brücke - Young Talent Prize

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Intelmann: Nordic Film Days Katja Benrath from Lübeck has won the Student Oscar , Lübecker Nachrichten of October 21, 2017, accessed on February 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Academy reveals 2017 Student Academy Awards winners , accessed September 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Medalists revealed at 2017 Student Academy Awards , accessed October 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Oscar Nominations . In: oscars.org, January 23, 2018.
  5. ^ Tilda , German Film and Media Assessment , accessed on September 14, 2017
  6. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
  7. ↑ Working aid
  8. ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/aktuelle-meldung/rauchfrei-siegel-2019-fuer-rocca-veraendert-die-welt/ , accessed on June 8, 2019
  9. ↑ Two German films win Oscars for young talent , FAZ from September 14, 2017, accessed on September 14, 2017
  10. ↑ Record attendance at the film festival . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Filmz: Award ceremony at the Festival of German cinema in 2017 in Mainz . Article dated December 5, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ The winners of FILMZ 2017 have been announced! | Filmz - Festival of German Cinema . Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  13. ^ Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke will be awarded for the 17th time on July 5th in Munich . Article dated June 6, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Benrath, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)