Margit Eschenbach

Margit Eschenbach (born May 9, 1948 in Lübeck ) is a German filmmaker , university teacher and photographer .

Life

Eschenbach studied history, social sciences and education in Frankfurt / Main, which she completed with a state examination in 1971 and a diploma in 1975.

From 1975 to 1978 she was involved in the development and co-management of the Hermann Hesse School, a comprehensive school for former drug addicts in Frankfurt / Main. From 1978 to 1988 she worked as a freelance sound engineer in feature films, documentaries and series for cinema and TV. Since 1985 she has made her own films as a writer, director, and producer.

From 1982 to 1991 she was a lecturer at the Berlin Film and Television Academy , visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg, lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts and a lecturer at the University of Zurich. Between 1992 and 2009 she worked on the establishment and management of the film / video department at the former Zurich University of Art and Design (HGKZ), now the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and received a professorship. In 2000 Eschenbach was head of the research project (KTI): Innovative approaches to the presentation of media works of art using the example of VIPER (International Festival for Film, Video and New Media) Basel.

In 1990 Eschenbach was a member of the Hamburg Film Funding Committee . Since 1994 she has been a member of the board of trustees of Hyper-Forum, Basel, foundation for research funding in the field of digital technology. In addition, from 1997 to 2004 she was a member of the board of VIPER, the International Film, Video and Multimedia Festival, Lucerne / Basel and from 1998 to 1999 a board member of the Shedhalle Zurich .

Membership in festival juries (selection)

• From 1986: Member of the admission committee of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin several times
• 1987–1990: Selection jury International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and selection jury Videoforum Freiburg / Breisgau
• 1997–1998: Prize jury Femina Prize Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival , Saarbrücken
• 2000: Diagonale Prize Jury (Film Festival) , Graz
• 2002: Prize jury for short film Panorama and UIP Prize Berlinale
• 2004: Golden Chest jury, Plovdiv Bulgaria
• 2004: NDR Award Jury, Nordic Film Days Lübeck
• 2008: Jury of the Max Ophüls Film Festival, Saarbrücken
• 2009: Jury Helvétique, Swiss Film Prize, Visions du Réel Nyon

Filmography (selection)

• 1970/1980/2002: The Truth About Vera Eschkova. Documentary, with Uschi Madeisky .
• 1976: Expression - Dance. Experimental video.
• 1983: Green triangle. Experimental video.
• 1985: Nice hours. Short film, with G. Grossmann.
• 1985: Female Zone. Documentary, with G. Grossmann.
• 1986: The headstrong ladies. Documentary film (NDR), part of the television series Unerhört - The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to today
• 1986: time of displacement - time of reconstruction. Documentary film (NDR), part of the television series Unerhört - The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to today
• 1987: With a woman's waffles. Documentary (HR).
• 1988: Violetta Clean. Documentary (HR).
• 1991: The traveling years. Documentary with G. Grossmann.
• 1992: a journey. Fictional document. Camera, production, director G. Grossmann.
• 1999: Buchenwald / Post Weimar concentration camp. Documentary film on behalf of the Buchenwald Memorials Foundation
• 2004: Actually we are (also) from here. Documentary.
• 2007: Neither here nor there. Documentary.

Awards

• 1987: Prize of the AG of German Film Journalists, for the female zone
• 1989: Youth Film Prize from the German Federal Ministry for Family, Youth, Women and Health, for Violetta Clean
• 1994: Short film award at the film art festival in Schwerin, for a journey
• 2003: Film Prize of the City of Zurich , for contributions to the development of the Film / Video degree program at the Zurich University of Art and Design

Web links

• Website by Margit Eschenbach
• Margit Eschenbach at filmportal.de
• Margit Eschenbach at SWISS FILMS
• Margit Eschenbach in the Internet Movie Database
• Buchenwald / Post Weimar concentration camp. Eschenbach's documentary on the Buchenwald Memorial Foundation website

Individual evidence

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