Loretta Walz

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Loretta Walz (* 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German director , author , film producer and lecturer for film production and media design a . a. at the University of Luxembourg , from 1988 to 2008 she taught at the UdK Berlin . Walz was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2006 for the film Die Frauen von Ravensbrück , and in the same year received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for her life's work. Her cinematic focus is on documentaries in the field of history and biography.

Life

Walz's focus is on documentaries in the field of history and biography. She has been working in this area since 1980. Victims of National Socialism have their say in many of their films . The interviews reflect different life situations during the time of the Nazi regime in Germany - from persecution to resistance to everyday compulsions.

In January 2005 her book And then you come there on a beautiful summer day was published - The women of Ravensbrück . It introduces 35 contemporary witnesses who were imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . In the following, award-winning documentary, the author draws on more than 200 video portraits that she created with women from 15 countries over a period of 25 years. Loretta Walz was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2006 for her film Die Frauen von Ravensbrück , in the same year she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for film and book And then you come there on a beautiful summer day and her life's work. Walz's works are in the documentary tradition of Eberhard Fechner and Claude Lanzmann .

In 1980 she began work on the interview collection Resistance Live - Women's Biographies , which continues to this day. With this project since 1980 Loretta Walz has created one of the largest collections of video interviews with survivors of the Nazi era. The collection comprises a total of over 750 hours of visual material. In the long term, all interviews for educational work as well as for science and research are to be made freely available in an online video archive. In September 2010 the first season of the database with 50 interviews was activated for use in schools.

The production company Loretta Walz Videoproduktion has existed since 1980, offering documentaries for cinema and television and creating contributions for youth and adult education, for memorials and museums on all subjects related to history and biography. Walz lived in Berlin from 1981, and in Düsseldorf since 2007.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1982 Hold on to your love , portrait of Rio Reiser and Ralph Lanrue, WDR, directors: Albrecht Metzger, Rolf Schnieders, Loretta Walz
  • 1983 Alone they make you a ... , music film with Ton Steine ​​Scherben and Schroeders Roadshow, directors: Christian Wagner, Rolf Schnieders, Albrecht Metzger, Loretta Walz (1992, 1995 and 1998 broadcast on WDR / Rockpalast)
  • 1985 For example San Francisco - A city lives with AIDS , script and direction: Loretta Walz, Rolf Schnieders; in cooperation with the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e. V., Berlin, funded by the Federal Center for Health Education, Bonn
  • 1987 You had to do something ... Director: Loretta Walz and others, portrait of a German resistance fighter, October 1989: DDR1, October 1990: DFF1
  • 1988 International Committee of the Ravensbrück Camp Community in Hamburg, commissioned production for the WDR women's program, director: Loretta Walz
  • 1989 We don't talk about it , film adaptation of a children's play Rote Grütze for youth work and school, director: Loretta Walz
  • 1991 Heinz, what did you want in Stalingrad? , Television documentary for German television , directed by Loretta Walz
  • 1991–1998 Scientific film project for the German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition (DASA), Dortmund, for the creation of interactive exhibition films with work biographies of various professional groups
  • 1992 I am entitled to live , director: Loretta Walz, video portrait Esther Bejarano, in collaboration with the Ravensbrück memorial
  • 1993 The house on the edge of the forest , there were also beautiful colors ... , cold spring in Kleinmachnow , three films for teacher training in the state of Brandenburg, director: Alexander von Plato Loretta Walz and others, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Potsdam, Dept. Dealing with the Past
  • 1993 France Bloch-Sérazin - In the footsteps of a courageous woman , portrait of a French resistance fighter, director Loretta Walz, sponsored by the Hamburg film office, television version commissioned by NDR , Lichtblick Filmproduktion, Hamburg
  • 1994 Biographical film project for the interactive presentation on the subject of reparation in the Federal Republic and GDR , on behalf of the House of History, Bonn, in cooperation with the Institute for History and Biography of the Distance University Hagen
  • 1995 We were called rabbits , The medical experiments on Polish women in Ravensbrück, script and direction: Loretta Walz, funded by the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women of the State of Brandenburg
  • 1996 Soviet Special Camp No. II Buchenwald , scientific film project for the interactive presentation on behalf of the Buchenwald Memorial, written and directed by Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz
  • 1996 Biographical film project for the interactive presentation on the topic: Russian prisoners of war in Germany - German prisoners of war in Russia , on behalf of the House of History, Bonn, in cooperation with the Institute for History and Biography of the Distance University Hagen
  • 1997 Forced labor at Siemens , contributions for WDR and ZDF on the topic of Siemens camp in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
  • 1998 The concentration camps in Moringen , film project for the interactive presentation in the memorial, on behalf of the Moringen memorial, director: Loretta Walz
  • 1999 Wehrmacht justice in Torgau , scientific film project for the interactive presentation in the museum, on behalf of the Saxon Memorials Foundation, script and direction: Alexander von Plato and Loretta Walz
  • 2000 Forced labor for the SS economy , interactive film project about the SS textile industry in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, on behalf of the Ravensbrück Memorial and Funded by the Ministry of Labor, Health, Social Affairs and Women of the State of Brandenburg, script and director: Loretta Walz
  • 2001 We had nothing to reproach ourselves with, you won't have anything to laugh about with us , documentary in two parts about the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses under National Socialism and in the GDR, script: Loretta Walz and Günter Hoffmann, director: Loretta Walz
  • 2002 . . . in three days we had lost everything. Women from Lidice tell a story, director: Loretta Walz, script: Loretta Walz, Uta Fröhlich, Eva Pluharová-Grigienersch
  • 2003 When I'm not there anymore , documentary about Hildegard Schäfer, survivor of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, director: Loretta Walz, Südwestfernsehen Rheinland-Pfalz
  • 2005 Die Frauen von Ravensbrück , director: Loretta Walz, script: Loretta Walz and Thomas Walther, D. 2006, in coproduction with Greta Film, MDR, RBB and SWR, nominations for the Prix Europa (2005) and for the sponsorship award of the Baden-Württemberg film industry (2005) / Adolf Grimme Prize 2006
  • 2006 The Bautzen Prisons , directed by Loretta Walz, D. 2006, on behalf of the Bautzen Memorial
  • 2011 In the shadow of the Gulag - born as a German under Stalin , directed by Loretta Walz, script: Annette Leo and Loretta Walz - in coproduction with mdr and rbb, funded by the Federal Foundation to Process the SED Dictatorship and the Film Foundation NRW
  • 2012–2014 interviews with contemporary witnesses of World War II in Luxembourg and the Greater Region: More than 100 biographical interviews on behalf of the University of Luxembourg as part of the PARTIZIP 2 research project
  • 2013 Contribution to: "Remembering forced labor, eyewitness interviews in the digital world" (Ed. By Nicolas Apostolopoulos and Cord Pagenstecher); 2013, Metropol Verlag, Berlin
  • 2013 Films for the new main exhibition of the Ravensbrück Memorial, written and directed by Loretta Walz, on behalf of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation / Ravensbrück Memorial
  • 2014 Contribution to: "The Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp, New Contributions to History and Post-History", research contributions and materials from the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Volume 12 (Ed. By Insa Eschebach, 2014 Metropol Verlag, Berlin)
  • 2014 Dora - “Total War” concentration camp , introductory film for the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial, 42 minutes, director: Loretta Walz, D 2014, on behalf of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
  • 2015 author of the country chapter Luxembourg for the exhibition of the German Historical Museum: “1945 defeat. Liberation. New beginning. Twelve countries in Europe after the Second World War "
  • 2010–2017 expansion of the online archive “The women of Ravensbrück - the video archive” - online interview archive for schools and educational work with around 100 interviews with survivors of the Moringen, Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps; in cooperation with Waidak Media eV, Berlin and Hektor + Rydzewski GmbH, Düsseldorf (funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the State of Brandenburg)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.agdok.de/de_DE/members_detail/21717/vita
  2. ↑ http://www.kunstmann.de/person-0-0/loretta_walz-75/
  3. ^ The women of Ravensbrück - The video archive. Kulturstiftung des Bundes , September 24, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Grimme Institute: Prize Winners 2006. Accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Senate Chancellery: Cross of Merit for the author, director and film producer Loretta Walz. Press release. Senate Chancellery (Berlin) , May 10, 2006, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Heidi Jäger: The embedded pain. PNN , April 23, 2008, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ http://www.waidak.de/diewaidaks/lorettawalz.html
  8. ↑ Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation: Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp - Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Loretta Walz: The women of Ravensbrück - The video archive. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Walz, Loretta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Germany