Lola Randl

Lola Randl 2019

Lola Randl (* 1980 in Munich ) is a German film director , screenwriter and writer .

Live and act

Lola Randl studied from 2001 to 2006 at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne and graduated from the script workshop in Munich in 2007 . During her training she made her first short films , some of them award-winning .

She made her feature film debut in 2008 with the film The Visitor , which premiered at the Berlinale . Von Bienen und Blumen (DE 2018) had its world premiere in the series “Neues Deutsches Kino” in July 2018 at the Munich Film Festival . The bizarre documentary is playful about experimental village life in the Brandenburg Uckermark . In 2019 her first novel, The Great Garden , was published, which made it onto the long list of the German Book Prize .

Filmography (selection)

• 2001: From bed to bed ( short film ), (screenplay and direction)
• 2003: Go out of my heart (short film), (screenplay and direction)
• 2004: afternoon program (short film), (screenplay and direction)
• 2006: Feel-good weekend (short film), (screenplay and director)
• 2006: Verena Verona (short film), (screenplay and director)
• 2007: (Die Leiden des Herr Karpf :) Bechterew's disease (short film), (screenplay, camera and director, together with Rainer Egger )
• 2008: The visitor , (screenplay and direction)
• 2008: The Sorrows of Mr. Karpf: The Visit (short film), (screenplay, camera and direction, together with Rainer Egger)
• 2009: The Sorrows of Mr. Karpf: The Birthday (short film), (screenplay, camera and director, together with Rainer Egger)
• 2010: The Sorrows of Mr. Karpf: The Concussion (short film), (screenplay, camera and direction, together with Rainer Egger)
• 2012: The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros , (script and director)
• 2013: The Invention of Love, (screenplay and direction)
• 2014: Landschwärmer (TV series, screenplay and director)
• 2017: Do you sometimes feel burned out and empty? (Script and direction)
• 2018: Of bees and flowers

Single track

• The great garden. Novel. Verlag Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019.

Awards

• 2004: Best German short film of the Regensburg Short Film Week for afternoon program
• 2009: Prix ​​UIP Berlin for The Sorrows of Mr. Karpf - The Birthday at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival
• 2009: Nomination for the European Film Award in the Best Short Film category for The Sorrows of Mr. Karpf - The Birthday
• 2009: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2012: Nomination for the German Independence Award - Best German Film at the Oldenburg Film Festival for The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros
• 2013: Nomination for the German Independence Award - Best German Film at the Oldenburg Film Festival for The Invention of Love
• 2013: Nomination for the German Independence Award - Audience Award at the Oldenburg Film Festival for The Invention of Love
• 2013: Nomination for the prize for the best German-language feature film at the Zurich Film Festival for The Invention of Love
• 2016: Nomination for the Grimme Prize in the Fiction / Special category for the feature film The Invention of Love
• 2019: Audience Award for the Franz Tumler Literature Award

literature

• Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.

Web links

Commons : Lola Randl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lola Randl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anne Haeming: "I am not a root plant". In: taz.de . June 2, 2019 (interview with Lola Randl). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FFMUC 2018: Von Bienen und Blumen , Filmlöwin July 3, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018.
2. ↑ Original with English subtitles , filmfest-muenchen.de, accessed July 6, 2018.
3. ↑ www.deutscher-buchpreis.de
4. ↑ Overview of productions nominated for the Grimme Prize 2016 and funded by the Filmstiftung NRW
5. ^ The Tumler Prize Winner . In: Daily newspaper online, accessed on September 22, 2019.