Kerstin Polte

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Kerstin Polte (* 1975 in Wiesbaden ) is a German director and screenwriter .

education

Kerstin Polte studied theater, film and literature at the Université Laval in Québec and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts . This was followed by a degree in media art / film at the HfG Karlsruhe (graduation in 2005, with distinction), as well as a Master of Arts in film at the Zurich University of the Arts in screenwriting and directing (sponsorship award of the year). In the preparations for her debut film Who actually invented love? In 2011 she received a scholarship from the Munich script workshop and in 2014 she was accepted into the European directing funding program EKRAN at the Wajda School in Warsaw.

Career

During her apprenticeship, Polte started as an employee of the TV editorial team for youth programs at Südwestrundfunk (SWR): In addition to classic editorial activities, she gained her first experience in the areas of scriptwriting and directing . As a result, she began to write short films and to direct them, e. E.g. in A hat, a stick, two umbrellas (2002), Piet Melzer (2006), 510 meters above the sea (2008) or last round (2012). Her films have been shown successfully at many internationally renowned festivals. In addition, she gained further directorial experience as a director of mini-series, theater plays as well as advertising and image films. Her first full-length feature film was Kein Zickenfox , a documentary about the Frauenblasorchester Berlin , the largest women's wind orchestra in the world, which Polte and camerawoman Dagmar Jäger accompanied during rehearsals and performances for over three years. No Zickenfox won several awards at international film festivals, including the audience award for "Best Documentary " at the Pink Apple Film Festival in Zurich and the International Queer Film Festival Hamburg . It was shown in German cinemas from March 2016.

Polte's first long feature film came in May 2018: Who actually invented love? (formerly “Monster” (AT)) distributed by alamode in the cinemas. The film is a tragic comedy with Corinna Harfouch , Meret Becker , Sabine Timoteo and others. a. Producing television stations were arte and SR on the German side, SRF and the Teleclub on the Swiss side. The film was produced by Augenschein GmbH in Cologne in coproduction with cognito Films in Switzerland. The film received the "Prize of German Film Critics" at the Achtung Berlin Festival and opened the renowned Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen, where it received an honorable mention from the jury.

As part of the arte series square , Polte received a " carte blanche " and portrayed the queer-feminist rapper sookee . The resulting documentary Sookee - von Seepferdchen & Schränken also ran successfully at international festivals.

In addition to her work as an author and director, Kerstin Polte is also co-founder and managing director of Serienwerk GmbH , a think tank and development center for German series fabrics. In 2016 her company was named "Germany's Culture and Creative Pilot" by the German government.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: A hat, a stick, two umbrellas (tragic comedy) - book, director
  • 2005: Grenzgänger (essay film) - book, director
  • 2006: GG 19 - Germany in 19 articles ( Article 15 segment ) - Director
  • 2008: 510 meters above the sea (poetic drama) - book, director
  • 2012: Last Round (tragic comedy) - script, director
  • 2014: Kein Zickenfox (documentary) - script, direction, editing
  • 2018: Who actually invented love? - Script, direction

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekran + Reports - 2014. Accessed September 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ MONSTER - apparently film production. In: www.augenschein-filmproduktion.de. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ media.net | Kerstin Polte, startup.net:catapult#7 participant and founder of series production, in the spin cycle. (No longer available online.) In: www.medianet-bb.de. Archived from the original on September 18, 2016 ; accessed on September 18, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medianet-bb.de
  4. ↑ Series work - series work. In: www.serienwerk.de. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The Film Art Prize 2018 of the 14th FESTIVAL OF THE GERMAN FILM LUDWIGSHAFEN AM RHEIN goes to "Murot and the marmot" by Dietrich Brüggemann . Article dated September 8, 2018, accessed September 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Polte, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden