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Lillian Birnbaum (* 1955 in New York ) is an Austrian - American film director and -produzentin and photographer .

Life

Birnbaum was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn , but grew up in Vienna . After her first photojournalistic experience in the 1970s, she began her career from 1982 to 1998 as a photographer for magazines in Europe and the USA, in Germany for example for the FAZ magazine and the Stern as well as for the international women's magazine Marie Claire . From 1999 to 2009 she was one of the closest employees of the Swiss film producer and multiple Oscar winner Arthur Cohn , for whom she acted as artistic advisor, developed many international film projects and was in some cases also executive producer (for example atOne day in September , Behind the Sun , Central Station , The Children of the Silk Road , The Yellow Sail ). In 2007 she and her partner directed a documentary about the pianist, composer and conductor Sir André Previn for the first time .

Birnbaum made a name for herself as a photographer above all with portraits , which she published in several photo volumes. In 1982 she observed ten patients at the Lower Austrian State Clinic for the Nervous System in Gugging in Maria Gugging for 15 months with the camera, the pictures were exhibited several times. Even Helmut Qualtinger in Vienna Prater was one of her early photo opportunities. In 1984 the first book, Travelers with black and white pictures about the life of showmen, was published. For the band Transitions from 2001 she accompanied a group of girls over several years in their development into young women. She gained widespread attention with the black and white volume Vier Frauen (1992), for which she photographed the four German actresses Hanna Schygulla , Barbara Sukowa , Katharina Thalbach and Sunnyi Melles in posed poses, as well as with Peter Handke . Portrait of the Poet in His Absence (2011). For this purpose, she visited the writer several times in his house near Paris, but only shows objects from this living environment, not the poet himself, his hands can only be seen in the final picture. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world.

Today Birnbaum lives mostly in Paris . She is married to the writer Peter Stephan Jungk , with whom she has a daughter. Lillian Birnbaum heads the film production company Peartree Entertainment, which she founded in 2010 (Peartree is the English word for pear tree).

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  2. ↑ The silence of the mushrooms , In: der Freitag
personal data
SURNAME Pear tree, Lillian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pear tree, Lilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American film director and producer, photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH new York