Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham (2012)

Lena Dunham (born May 13, 1986 in New York City ) is an American actress , film producer , film director , writer and screenwriter . She became famous for her television series Girls , which won two Golden Globe Awards and got several Emmy nominations. For her work on Girls , Dunham became the first woman to receive the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series in 2013 . That same year, Dunham was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine. In 2014, Dunham published her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: What I've Learned in Life .

Life

Lena Dunham was born in New York City. She is the daughter of painter Carroll Dunham and artist and photographer Laurie Simmons . Her father is Protestant and her mother is Jewish ; Dunham says that she "feels very culturally Jewish, but I know that is the biggest stereotype a Jewish woman can say." Her younger sister is the model and political activist Grace Dunham . Dunham describes her upbringing as feminist. She has been in therapeutic treatment since she was nine years old. At 11 she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and at 14 she was given psychiatric drugs for the first time. Dunham's handling of her mental illness is a recurring subject of her work. She attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and graduated in 2008 her studies in creative writing with a Bachelor at Oberlin College from.

Dunham fell ill with Covid-19 in mid-March 2020. For three weeks she had severe symptoms including a high fever, hard cough, severe headache, difficulty breathing, and overwhelming fatigue. The nerves in her feet burned and the muscles stopped working. Her hands were numb and she couldn't stand loud noises. After a month she tested negative, but many of the symptoms would have persisted. It went public because many people are still careless and do not keep their distance or wear a mask.

Artistic career

In 2009 she made her debut as an actress, director and screenwriter with the tragic comedy Creative Nonfiction . But it was the feature film Tiny Furniture (2010), shot on a budget of $ 25,000, that kicked off her career. It won the Independent Spirit Award (best first screenplay), the New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Independent Visions Award at the Sarasota Film Festival. These first critical successes paved the way for her to sign a contract with HBO for the television series Girls , in which she also worked as producer, screenwriter, director and leading actress. She was nominated for three Emmys in the categories Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series , Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2013, Dunham won the Golden Globe Award for Girls for Best Actress in a Series in a Comedy or Musical.

Dunham was heavily influenced by the Jewish-American screenwriter and director Nora Ephron . Ephron emailed Dunham an impromptu email after seeing Tiny Furniture . She remained Dunham's mentor and friend until Ephron's death in 2012. At the request of an editor who knew of this close friendship, Dunham wrote an obituary in The New Yorker magazine . Following the publication of Seeing Nora Everywhere, David Remnick encouraged her to submit additional material for publication, and in August 2012 her first essay, entitled First Love, appeared in the New Yorker.

In 2014 she published her autobiography, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's “Learned” . In this book, Dunham processes psychotherapy, nervous breakdowns, unhealthy relationships, and questionable personal choices. The fact that she gave Barry the name of a Republican who is said to have raped her while she was a student led to a scandal . There was no identification for a pseudonym, in contrast to other characters in the book, and the description identified a person who saw himself and his family exposed to serious attacks. After several weeks, Dunham apologized and admitted that he had not meant this man. The publisher then undertook to explain this in the book. This has now led to a controversial discussion in the United States about how to deal with rape allegations. While one side uses the allegations to demand more restrictive sexual criminal law, numerous media see this false accusation also cast doubt on Dunham's credibility in their further descriptions.

From 2015 to 2018, Dunham and her friend and then showrunner Jennifer Konner published Lenny Letter , a feminist online newsletter.

Prices

  • 2011:
    • Best First Screenplay ( Tiny Furniture ), Independent Spirit Awards

reception

In 2013 Time Magazine named Dunham one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. In September 2014, the New York Times magazine recognized Dunham's work with an extensive article (Daum, 2014).

Works

Filmography

Music videos

Autobiography

  • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" . Random House, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-8129-9499-5 .
German: Not that Kind of Girl. What I've learned in life . German by Sophie Zeitz and Tobias Schnettler. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-015356-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lena Dunham  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 18 Unbelievable Things About My Vagina , Tagesspiegel article from October 8, 2014, accessed October 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Emmys.com , Lena Dunham
  3. ^ "The It Girl" Directors Guild of America
  4. ^ "The 2013 TIME 100" Time
  5. ↑ Lena Dunham as advisor Spiegel Online. accessed on August 10, 2016
  6. ↑ Lena Dunham The Argotist online accessed on August 10, 2016
  7. ^ "Girls writer lays bare women's insecurities. Jewish Journal
  8. ^ Dunham, Lena: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" (page xv). New York: Random House, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b c Daum, Meghan: Lena Dunham is not done confessing . New York Times Magazine article on September 10, 2014, accessed October 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ “The nerves in my feet were burning. My hands were numb ” welt.de from August 1st, 2020
  11. ↑ Dunham, Lena: Seeing Nora Everywhere . The New Yorker on June 28, 2012, accessed October 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ Dunham, Lena: First Love: Memories of an Elusive Boyfriend . The New Yorker on August 13, 2012, accessed October 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ Dunham, Lena: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" . New York: Random House, 2014.
  14. ↑ Spiegel Online from December 12, 2014
  15. ↑ [1] Telepolis from December 19, 2014
  16. ^ "10 Fast Facts about Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's first Lenny Letter" New York Daily News
  17. ↑ Lena Dunham and Ex-Producing Partner Shut Down Lenny Letter The New York Times, October 19, 2018
  18. ↑ Simon Hattenstone: Everything real, in: Friday , January 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dunham, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, film producer, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States