Katja Raganelli
Katja Raganelli (born November 28, 1939 in Split ) is a German director , screenwriter and producer .
Career
Katja Raganelli is the only daughter of the Croatian civil engineer Rino Raganelli. In 1958 she graduated from high school Vladimir Nazor in Split and received a piano teacher diploma from the music school in Split. During school she was a permanent member of the youth theater ensemble in the National Theater of Split from 1952 to 1954 and played various stage roles.
After graduating from high school, she studied literature and philosophy at the University of Belgrade from 1959 to 1964, and at the same time dramaturgy and theater directing at the Belgrade Theater Academy. During her studies, she wrote ten radio plays broadcast on Belgrade radio stations.
After moving to Germany in 1964, Raganelli was accepted into the A-course at the newly created University of Television and Film in Munich in 1967 and graduated in 1971.
Together with the cameraman Konrad Wickler , she founded Diorama Film GmbH in Munich in 1976 to produce cultural documentaries. Katja Raganelli's most important topics include women behind the camera, and documentaries were created about the silent film directors Dorothy Arzner , Margery Wilson and Lois Weber , silhouette film pioneer Lotte Reiniger , as well as about contemporary women behind the camera, such as Agnès Varda , Liliane de Kermandec, Margarethe von Trotta , Valie Export , Mészáros Márta, Joan Micklin Silver , Joan Tewkesbury, Joan Darling, Martha Coolidge , Viveca Lindfors , Barbara Loden , Anja Breien and Mai Zetterling . From September to December 2019 the Munich Film Museum showed the film series "Katja Raganelli: 14 women filmmakers ..."
Katja Raganelli was married twice, first with the lawyer Peter Tscheuschner from 1963 to 1983, then with the cameraman Konrad Wickler , who died in 2011. Katja Raganelli lives in Munich and Split.
Filmography
- 1969 The Decision (short film with Eno Patalas)
- 1970 Escape (feature film)
- 1971 El Cigarron (graduation film)
- 1974 The Castle Kitchen (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1975 Golubic, once a year (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1976 Annot - portrait of a painter and pacifist
- 1977 Women are naturally creative - Agnès Varda
- 1978 Women have to be born twice - Liliane de Kermadec
- 1978 Love is a myth - Delpine Seyrig
- 1979 Márta Mészáros - portrait of a Hungarian film director
- 1979 Margarethe von Trotta - portrait of a film director
- 1979 Winter-Spring-Summer-Autumn (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1981 Valie Export - portrait of a film director
- 1981 Invisible Women - Filmmakers in Hollywood
- 1981 Farewell to Winter (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1982 New York - Babylon of Kitchens (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1982 Maybe I am a magician - portrait of the actor Peter Lühr
- 1982 Paths to Lear
- 1983 Johan Micklin Silver - meeting the New York film director
- 1983 Organ organ is my freedom - Helga Leiendecker realizes her dream
- 1984 Pictures from Westphalia (Series: A la carte BR)
- 1984 Smetana - My Fatherland
- 1984 Not man, not woman, just raven
- 1984 Those beautiful Queens - On the way with ragtime and blues
- 1985 Longing for Women - Dorothy Arzner
- 1985 New Orleans - on the go with jazz and gospel
- 1985 female photographers - encounters with Karin Székessy, Cindy Sherman, Roswitha Hecke, Charlotte March, Regina Relang
- 1986 From the Myth of Love - Sigfrit Steiner - Portrait of an Actor
- 1987 I would like to live like rays - Anja Breien, film director in Norway
- 1987 The magicians of the game - screen heroes, their wishes, dreams and successes
- 1987 The power of women is in their imagination - Hans W. Geissendörfer and his films
- 1988 Everyone envy and for our mother ... daughters and their mothers using the example of Mirjam Pressler
- 1989 From our studio "The rectory"
- 1989 I'm Wanda - portrait of the actress and director Barbara Loden
- 1989 Maybe I am really a sorceress - film director Mai Zetterling and her films
- 1990 More than just games - the kids and their computer
- 1990 Hall theater in Munich - it goes on
- 1990 Landestheater in Coburg - a springboard for young talents
- 1990 Free dance scene in Munich
- 1991 Jean - Luc Godard
- 1993 The women in Ingmar Bergman's films (documentary)
- 1996 Margery Wilson - Brown Eye recalls the beginnings of film art
- 1996 Alice Guy Blaché - homage to the world's first female filmmaker
- 1997 Lotte Reiniger - homage to the inventor of the silhouette film
Web links
- Katja Raganelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Retrospective “ Portraits of Filmmakers” at the Munich Film Museum
- Article by EPD Film about the film series “ Portraits of Filmmakers ” at the Munich Film Museum
- Article from the film service: Films about women who make films
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raganelli, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Split |