Maren Niemeyer

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Maren Niemeyer (born May 8, 1964 in Bremen ) is a German journalist , author and documentary film director.

Life

Niemeyer attended the Kippenberg high school in Bremen. From 1984 to 1990 she studied journalism, German and film studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Free University of Berlin . From 1986 she worked as a freelancer for the magazine Tempo in Hamburg , for the Neue Ruhr Zeitung in Essen and for the SFB youth radio magazine SF-Beat. In her master's thesis, which she submitted in the spring of 1990, she researched the film history of the GDR and her state-owned film company DEFA, which is largely unknown in the West .

In 1991 Niemeyer went to the USA and stayed there for four months as an Arthur F. Burns scholarship holder at the CBS branch WABI TV in Bangor (Maine) and the public radio station WUSF in Tampa , Florida . From 1991 to 1994 she worked as a Berlin and East Germany correspondent for the interview magazine O137 of the pay-TV channel Premiere .

Since 1995, Niemeyer has been working as an author, editor and head of the service for TV programs for Willemsens Woche and Berlin-Mitte (ZDF), Kulturreport and Sabine Christiansen (ARD), Westart (WDR), Liebe Sünde (Pro 7), culture, among others 21 (DW-TV). From 2000 to 2006 she headed the German-French ARTE women's magazine LOLA and the Germany editorial team of the ARTE lifestyle magazine CHIC. From 2007 to 2009 she was an editor at the headquarters of the Franco-German cultural broadcaster ARTE in Strasbourg and in the NDR ARTE editorial team in Hamburg, responsible for culture and documentary broadcasting slots.

Niemeyer also worked as a producer for ARTE, SWR, WDR and Deutsche Welle TV. Among other things, together with Thomas Kufus and his production company Zero One Film, she produced a two-part series about the Magic Hippietrail “The Caravan of Flower Children” (2008). In 2009 she produced a three-part series on German design for DW TV “Fascination, Form, Color”, which was nominated for the 2009 German Business Film Prize.

Niemeyer worked as a director on the ARTE / RBB production 24 hours Berlin and on the documentary series Love Without Borders ZDF / ARTE, for which she was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2010 . In 2011 Maren Niemeyer realized the documentary film Planet Goethe - 60 Years of the Goethe-Institut for the Goethe-Institut and DW-TV . From December 2009 to June 2016, Niemeyer was the television and radio officer of the Goethe-Institut responsible for media cooperation, and since July 2016 she has headed the Goethe-Institut Thailand in Bangkok.

In 2004 and 2010 she was elected to the jury of the German Human Rights Film Prize, in 2006 she was a member of the documentary film jury of the Berlin Film Festival .

Niemeyer traveled regularly to crisis and war regions to realize film projects. From 1999 to 2001 she made several trips to Kosovo for a reportage project . Three years later she went to Lebanon with the support of a travel grant from the International Journalists Program . Further trips as a freelance reporter followed in crisis and conflict regions such as Afghanistan, Ramallah , Israel, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Nepal and Vietnam, from which she reported for ARD, DW TV and ARTE.

Volunteering

Since 2002 Niemeyer has been the 2nd chairwoman of the MaikaeferFlieg association , a children's cultural bridge in Kosovo. The association conceived the exhibition With Different Eyes, which shows the view of children and young people on the Kosovo war. To accompany the exhibition, Niemeyer and Anna Berkenbusch published the trilingual book I often think of war. With different eyes - children photograph the war in Kosovo .

As part of the project With Different Eyes , she gives lectures on the different visual perception of images of war. a. In 2004 she gave a lecture in the series of events Shock and Awe War Images between Documentation and Ideology in the Edith Ruß House for Media Art in Oldenburg . Using the example of the German war photographer Anja Niedringhaus , the focus was on the question of whether female war reporters take different pictures of the war than their male colleagues and to what extent the perception of war events differs between men and women.

Filmography

  • The Richard Street in Neukölln , student film project, Germany 1987, 45 min, production:. SFB student film project
  • How Germany learns to love each other - three east-west couples report , documentation, Germany 1995, 30 min., Production: SFB / WDR
  • The great silence - brothels in concentration camps , documentation, Germany, 1995, 30 min., Directors: Maren Niemeyer, Caroline von der Tann, production: ARD / ORB
  • Leary's last trip - portrait of drug guru TIMOTHY LEARY , documentary, Germany, 1996, 55 min., Directors: Maren Niemeyer, Roger Willemsen, production: ARTE / ZDF
  • The Last Greek - Portrait of Anthony Quinn , Documentation, Germany 1996, 30 min. with Roger Willemsen, production: ORB
  • Willemsen's contemporaries - portrait of the national soccer coach BERTI VOGTS , documentary, Germany, 1996, 30 min., Production: ZDF
  • Willemsen's contemporaries - portrait of the Jewish photographer GISELE FREUND , documentation, Germany, 1996, 30 min., Production: ZDF
  • Willemsen's contemporaries - portrait of the music producer QUINCY JONES , documentation, Germany, 1996, 30 min., Production: ZDF
  • The new art of having children - The GEO report “Weibsbilder” , documentation, Germany, 1999, 30 min., Production: SWR / ARTE
  • Princess for a day, Hoppenrade Castle and its story (s) , documentation, Germany, 2001, 30 min., Production: ORB
  • 100 percent chocolate, the history of the Swiss chocolate factory Cima Norma , documentation, Germany, 2006, 60 min., Production: ARTE
  • To be high, to be free, to be there everywhere - on the hippie trail to Ibiza and Formentera , documentation, Germany, 2007, 30 min., Production: ARTE
  • To be high, to be free, to be there everywhere - on the hippie trail to Kabul , documentation, Germany 2007, 30 min., Production: ARTE
  • Picture book Germany - Spreewald , documentation, Germany, 2007, 45 min., Production: RBB / ARD
  • The caravan of flower children , part 1 - being high, being free, part 2 At the goal of dreams. Documentation, Germany 2008, 2 × 45 min., Production: WDR / SWR
  • Fascination Form Color - Design from Germany, product design, fashion design, communication design , documentation, co-director Sissi Hüetlin, Germany 2009, 3 × 26 min, production: DW-TV
  • 24 hours Berlin - a day in the life , co-director of the shooting episode Gloria Viagra. Documentation, Germany 2009, 1 × 24 hours, production: ARTE / RBB
  • Love without borders , co-director part 3 Stockholm and Leipzig, part 4 Berlin and Vienna, docusoap, Germany 2009, 4 × 26 min, production: ZDF / ARTE
  • Planet Goethe - 60 years of the Goethe-Institut - part 1 and 2 , documentation, Germany 2011, 60 min., Production: Goethe-Institut / DW-TV

Nominations

  • 1987: Richardstrasse in Neukölln , nominated for the Golden Dove at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film .
  • 1995: The great silence - brothels in concentration camps , nominated for the Prix ​​d`Europe .
  • 2009: Fascination, Form, Color - Communication Design from Germany , nominated for the German Business Film Award. The film also took part in the 2010 FIFA Film Festival Montreal.
  • 2010: Love without borders , nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ - defa.de. In: defa.de. Retrieved October 4, 2011 .
  2. ↑ - taz.de. In: taz.de. Retrieved September 30, 2011 .
  3. ↑ - goethe.de. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ With different eyes - drawings & photos of children from Kosovo. In: maikaeferflieg.de. Retrieved September 30, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Archive - Edith Ruß House for Media Art. (No longer available online.) In: edith-russ-haus.de. Archived from the original on April 1, 2012 ; Retrieved September 30, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edith-russ-haus.de
  6. ↑ Archive - oldenburg.de. (No longer available online.) In: oldenburg.de. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012 ; Retrieved October 4, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oldenburg.de
  7. ↑ - tagesspiegel.de. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved October 4, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Niemeyer, Maren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen