Maren-Kea Freese

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Maren-Kea Freese

Maren-Kea Freese (born April 24, 1960 in Hanover ) is a German film director and screenwriter for feature and documentary films who lives in Berlin.

Life

Maren-Kea Freese spent her childhood and youth in Hamburg , Curacao , Ingolstadt and Cologne . She completed her studies in film studies , journalism and German at the Free University of Berlin . At the same time, she made short films independently (director, script, camera, editing) and cinematically told about life in the big city. She also worked as an assistant director to George Tabori , Rosa von Praunheim and at the Aachen Theater . She then studied directing and scriptwriting at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Her graduation film "Zoe" (1999) is the portrait of an angry girl on the run - until her past catches up with her. “Zoe” was shown in the Forum of the Berlinale 2000, at the Moscow International Film Festival, in Gothenburg and at the Lodz International Film Festival. At the Munich Film Festival, “Zoe” received the Director's Prize for German Film.

Her second feature film “What I know about her” (2005), in which Thomas Jonigk was a co-author, was shown in Gothenburg. In addition, she produced documentary works (TV, radio), supported by the 2009 Otto Brenner Prize / Research Grant.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1984 This is how it looks (short film, direction, book, camera, editing)
  • 1985: Blue Monday (short film, director, book)
  • 1988: Man is happy with his life - not only as an embryo (short film, direction, book, camera, editing)
  • 1992: Zoe (short film, director, script, editor)
  • 1995: Leap into the void (short film, director, book)
  • 1996: Kojotenweg 13 (short film, director, book)
  • 1999: Zoe (feature film, director, book)
  • 2005: What I know about her (feature film, direction, book)
  • 2011: My Prince is from America (documentary, co-director and script)

Awards and grants

  • 1984: Winner of the Deutsche Kinemathek / IBA competition: The place where I live for this is how it looks
  • 1985: 1st prize WDR / Adolf Grimme Institute “Die Videomacher” for Blue Monday
  • 1988: 1st Prize of Feminale Köln 88 for Man is happy with his life - not only as an embryo
  • 1999: Director's Award for German Film, Series: New German Cinema, Munich Film Festival - for Zoe
  • 2006: Nomination Prix Genève Europe - for what I know about her
  • 2006: Nomination for the German Film Award, Munich Film Festival
  • 2009: Otto-Brenner Prize / research for "Always in the Hidden"

credentials

  • Angela Schmitt-Glasses: Comedies, not just pain-free . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 7, 1999.
  • Jan Schulz-Ojala: Dancing on, dancing off . In Tagesspiegel . August 26, 1999.
  • Detlef Kuhlbrodt : Zoe, a funny Berlin social drama . In: taz . August 27, 1999.
  • Tom Heithoff: Small miracles . In: Tagesspiegel . February 10, 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ realeyz.tv ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with Maren-Kea Freese @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.realeyz.tv
  2. ↑ berlinale.de ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Film data sheet @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de
  3. ↑ filmfest-muenchen.d , prices
  4. ^ Filmportal.de , What I know about her
  5. ↑ deutschlandradiokultur.de , Always in Hidden
personal data
SURNAME Freese, Maren-Kea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover