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Kerstin Krieg (* 1979 in Würselen ) is a German film scholar and filmmaker .

biography

Kerstin Krieg studied film studies in Germany and the USA. Since 2001 she has made numerous short films. For Sushi Dinner (D 2002, miniDV) she and Arne Ahrens won the Rhineland-Palatinate short film award . A Downtown Fairytale (USA 2003, HD), which was nominated for an Emmy , followed in the USA . In addition, together with Arne Ahrens, she realized the television reports The Wig Shop Project (USA 2003, miniDV) and Wonderland (USA 2003, miniDV), for which they also received an Emmy nomination. After numerous work as an editor of short films and documentaries and in the field of DVD production, she was involved in the realization of the short film Großstadträuber (D 2005, 16 mm) as assistant director and DVD producer. Großstadträuber again won the short film award of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as the Hessian film award for the best short film.

In addition to her practical film work, she founded FILMZ - the festival of German cinema in Mainz - in 2001 as a team . From 2004 to 2008 she was the first chairwoman and conceptual director of the festival. To this day, she selects the full-length feature films for the FILMZ competition. After completing her degree on the subject of current German cinema. Trends and trends of a new generation In 2005 she became managing director of the electronic media center at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In addition, she worked as a freelance editor for ZDF and as an author for various publishers. Her specialty is current German cinema. In March 2008 she moved from Mainz to Cologne to work as a dramaturge and producer for the production company TAG / TRAUM. She has been the managing director of this company since 2019. Her greatest successes there are: Sundance Film Festival Prize of the Grand Jury, IDFA Audience Prize, Berlinale Prize of the Ecumenical Jury ; Preselection German Film Award Documentary Film; Nomination of the German Nature Film Award .

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: Mausetot (director, screenplay, production) 14 min., DV
• 2002: Sushi Dinner (co-director, screenplay, production) 7:40 min., DV
• 2002: Wig Shop Project (TV feature, co-editing) 5 min., DV
• 2002: Wonderland (TV feature, co-editing) 4 min., DV
• 2003: A Downtown Fairytale (co-director, screenplay, production) 22 min., HD
• 2004: Ride the Toilet (director, screenplay, editing of an episode), 15 min., DV and HD
• 2005: Großstadträuber (assistant director, making-of, DVD production), 16 min., Super 16
• 2006: The Chicken (director, screenplay, editing of an episode), omnibus project, 1:30 min., DV
• 2006/07: Kleine Brötchen - The World Cup documentary without football (cut), 71 min., DV
• 2007: Behind is New York (cut), 10 min., DV
• 2008: The Magical Cowboyhat (director, screenplay, editing of an episode), omnibus project, 6:30 min.
• 2010: On the safe side feature film by Corinna Wichmann and Lukas Schmid for ZDF / arte, production: TAG / TRAUM, distribution: realfiction (producer, dramaturge), 82 min.
• 2010: Lo Roim Alaich feature documentary, German-Israeli co-production, script and director: Michal Aviad, ZDF / arte, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 74 min.
• 2011: Die Pfandleiher documentary, director: Stanislaw Mucha; hr / arte, (producer, dramaturge), 70 min.
• 2011: Wilder Iran 2-part series for ZDF / arte, BR, WDR, ARD and ORF, world sales: ZDF-Enterprises, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 2x 43 min., 52 min.
• 2012: Meine Freiheit, Deine Freiheit Feature documentary, director: Diana Näcke for ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel, distributor: salzgeber, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 84 min.
• 2012: Nanook goes Baden long-term documentary for ZDF / arte, director: Tink Diaz, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 62 min.
• 2012: Pixel shadows TV feature film in blog form for ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel, script and director: Anil Kunnel, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 85 min.
• 2013: The Sinti and Roma Philharmonic. A conductor and his dream music documentation for RBB / arte, Musica, director: Margarethe Kreuzer, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 52 min.
• 2013: Erwin Wurm cultural documentary for ZDF / arte, director: Laurin Merz; Co-production with PiXiU-Film Switzerland, Navigator Film Production Austria, production: TAG / TRAUM, (German producer, dramaturge), 90 min. / 52 min.
• 2014: Aufstand der Kinder children's documentary for ZDF / Kika and WDR / Planet Schule, director: Elisabeth Weydt, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge) 15 min. / 30 min
• 2014: Himmelverbot cinema documentary, co-production with LIBRA Film, Romania; Film Funding Hamburg-Schleßwig-Holstein; Film and Media Foundation NRW; MEDIA, BKM, director: Andrei Schwartz, distributor: W-Film, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 90 min.
• 2014: FEMMEfille cinema documentary, ZDF / arte, SVT Sweden, YLE Finland; Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, BKM, Filmförderung Hessen, director: Kiki Allgeier, distributor: Farbfilm Filmverleih, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 90 min.
• 2015: Tristia. A Black Sea Odyssey Cinema documentary, HR / arte, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, BKM, DFFF, Filmförderung Hessen, FFA Screenplay Funding, Robert Bosch Foundation; Director: Stanislaw Mucha, distributor: MFA + FilmDistiribution, production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturge), 98 min.
• 2015: Sonita Kino-Dokumentarfilm, NDR / arte, IDFA Bertha Fund, Chicken and Eggs Scholarship, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, BKM; In co-production with Intermezzo Film, Switzerland and Iran; World sales: Cats & Docs and WMM North America; Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Production: TAG / TRAUM, (producer, dramaturgy), 92 min .; Awards: Sundance Grand Jury Prize World Cinema Competition 2016, Sundance Audience Prize World Cinema Competition 2016; IDFA Prize of the Youth Jury 2015; IDFA Audience Award 2015

Publications

• Children's University DVD - On the trail of science . Gardez! Verlag 2005, ISBN 3897961350 (edition: 10,000; conception, design and authoring)
• Calista Flockhart (* 1964) - A bundle of contradictions enchants a generation . In: Thomas Koebner ; Fabienne Liptay [Red.]: Film Concepts 01. Comedians; Edition Text & Criticism 2006, ISBN 3883778214
• Courageous women push for the vacant seats ... An approach to five selected representatives of the new drama guard in current German film. In: Susanne Marschall; Fabienne Liptay [Ed.]: With all the senses: feeling and sensation in the cinema; Schüren Verlag 2006, ISBN 3894724404
• Children's University DVD - The world is colorful . Gardez! Verlag 2006, ISBN 3897961377 (edition: 10,000; conception, design and authoring)
• Report In: Thomas Koebner [Hrsg.]: Reclams Sachlexikon des Films; Reclam-Verlag 2007, ISBN 9783150106259
• Procrastination and seduction. The dramaturgy of love In: Roman Mauer, Thomas Koebner , Fabienne Liptay [Ed.]: Film Concepts 08. Clint Eastwood; Edition Text & Criticism 2007, ISBN 9783883778921
• Goodbye to yesterday; Berlin: The symphony of the big city; The blue Angel; Bonnie and Clyde; The bridge; Pandora's Box; Decalogue; Over time; Each for himself and God against all; Lola Montez; The murderers are among us; Paris, Texas; Rome, open city; To be or not to be; Serenade for three; La Strada; Under the bridges; Gone with the wind In: Brockhaus - online edition 2007
• What's wrong with German film? In: FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema [Hrsg.]: The noughties: Between stagnation and innovation. German cinema in the new millennium; Schüren Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3894727475

Web links

• Kerstin Krieg in the Internet Movie Database (English)