Maggie Peren
Maggie Peren (born May 7, 1974 in Heidelberg ) is a German screenwriter , actress and film director of British origin.
Life
Maggie Peren grew up in Stuttgart and went to England in 1993, where she began studying at the state drama school in Manchester . In 1996 he studied literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . At the end of the 1990s Peren began to work as a writer and actress. She made her actress debut in 1998 in Dennis Gansel's On behalf of the Lord . This was followed by Amelie in Adolf Winkelmanns Engelchen flieg and Lara in Leon & Lara .
Before Maggie Peren received the German Film Prize in 2004 for her screenplay for Napola - Elite for the Führer , she wrote the screenplays for Vanessa Jopp's Vergiss Amerika (2000), the comedies Girls, Girls and Girls, Girls 2 - Loft or Love , Kiss and Run (for this she received the Grimme Prize and the Baden-Württemberg Screenplay Prize 2000), Marco Kreuzpaintner's Ganz und absolutely and Sibylle Tafels Are all nice men gay, as well as the self-produced film God is a dead fish .
As a director she made the short film Hypochonder (2004) as well as her film debut Stellungswechsel (2007) and the refugee drama The Color of the Ocean (2011).
Maggie Peren was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 2005: Hypochondriac (short film)
- 2007: Change of position
- 2011: The color of the ocean
- 2020: Hello Again - One day forever
Web links
- Maggie Peren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maggie Peren at filmportal.de
- Profile at the agency Above the Line
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peren, Maggie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neureuther, Maggie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter, actress and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7th 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |