Maria Blumencron

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Maria Blumencron (born November 9, 1965 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress , filmmaker and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1984 with the Dominicans in Vienna / Hütteldorf , she spent time abroad in France , India and Nepal . In 1986 she began training as an actress at the Vienna Conservatory, which she graduated with honors in 1989. During her training, she had engagements at the Raimundtheater / Vienna, Ensembletheater / Vienna and the Villach studio stage. From 1989 to 1991 she was a member of the Osnabrück City Theater ensemble. In 1992 she wrote the children's play Will you come with me to Durian on behalf of the children's rights organization terre des hommes ? , which she performed over 200 times across Germany together with the WUM Theater. This was followed by other children's plays and comics about street children for terre des hommes, such as Shelter and Ayudame Théresa .

In 1994 she switched to television and took on roles in Kommissar Rex ( SAT 1 ) and Kurklinik Rosenau (SAT 1). During this time, she completed a one-year scholarship course at the screenwriting workshop (HFF Munich) for advanced training as a screenwriter.

In 1998 she started working as a freelance radio employee at WDR , where she wrote, produced and discussed word-of-mouth programs and radio plays. Her radio play Plum with Salt won the German Children's Radio Play Prize in 2000 .

Blumencron has been working as a documentary filmmaker since 1999. While trying to accompany a group of refugees from Tibet over the 5,716 meter high Nangpa La to Nepal and on to India for the ZDF, the Chinese police arrested them on December 25, 1999. While she was released two nights later, the escape helper ended up in torture detention for two and a half years. Ten years later she processed this experience together with the escape helper in the documentary Good Bye Tibet .

In order to still be able to shoot her documentary Escape over the Himalayas , she and her film team went from the Nepalese side of the Himalayas to meet Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La in April 2000 . It documented the descent of six Tibetan children and their further journey to Dharamsala in northern India , where the four girls and two boys were accommodated in a Tibetan SOS Children's Village and received by the Dalai Lama . The documentary was broadcast on ZDF, 3sat and Phoenix and was awarded fifteen international prizes, such as B. the first place of the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists for the best documentary in 2001. This was followed by another film about the Himalayas, as well as about Danube monasteries and holy places in Germany and Austria for the Bavarian radio .

In 2002, Blumencron began working as a book author at Malik-Verlag . To date she has published three books on the subject of the refugee movement from Tibet as well as a Russian biography. Her first screenplay As Between Heaven and Earth was filmed with Hannah Herzsprung in the lead role and was released on May 31, 2012. Blumencron directed.

Maria Blumencron has been a speaker since 2008 and holds numerous multimedia readings on her books, for example in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne or in the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna.

In 2013, a film was made for the documentary series Lebenslinien des Bayerischen Ferns TV (written and directed by Gabriele Dinsenbacher ) with the title Mutterseelenallein - Die Geschichte der Maria Blumencron .

engagement

During her work as an actress, Maria Blumencron volunteered for Friedensdorf International from 1997 to 1998 to look after children from war and crisis areas in Angola and Afghanistan who were in Germany for medical care.

In order to also provide practical help to children in need and homeless people in those regions where she worked as a documentary filmmaker, she founded the Shelter108 e. V., who works according to the motto "Build spaces in which happiness can live". In addition to running a children's and youth hostel in Kathmandu and building children's houses, sponsors have been found in Germany and Austria for almost 900 Tibetan children in exile (as of 12/2016). Most of the projects that Shelter108 e. V. are in the Himalayas. Blumencron works on a voluntary basis for the association.

Awards

  • German children's radio play award
  • Silver World Medal for Documentary, The New York Festival 2001
  • Best Documentation Award, European Festival for Religious Programs, (UNDA / WACC), Helsinki 2001
  • 1st prize for best documentation, Axel Springer Prize for young journalists, 2001
  • 1st Prize Students Documentary, Kalamata Documentary Festival, Greece 2001
  • Special Jury Prize, BANFF Mountain Festival, Canada (2002)
  • Best Film of Mountain Culture, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, USA 2003
  • 2nd Prize Documentation, Cervino International Film Festival, Italy 2003
  • Special prize 'Oriental Religion', Religion Today, Trient 2003
  • Main prize for directing, International Mountaineering Film Festival, Teplice nad Metuji, Czech Republic 2004
  • Audience Award, Mountain Film Festival, St. Anton am Arlberg 2004
  • Grand Prix - Golden Frame, Explorers Festival, Poland 2004
  • Main prize, International Festival of Outdoor Film, Czech Republic 2004
  • Grand Prix - Golden Frame, Explorers Festival, Art Show, Poland 2005
  • White pen from Herzogenburg, 2007
  • Grand Prix Graz, 2011
  • Audience Award, Bolzano Film Festival 2012

plant

In her films, books and lectures, Blumencron draws attention to the decades of oppression of the Tibetans by the People's Republic of China and is particularly committed to helping refugee children from Tibet.

Since the unrest was put down in 2008, the flow of refugees across the Himalayas has slowed significantly. Since then, the focus of her work has shifted to the lives of Tibetan children and young people in exile, as in her most recent book No Path Leads Back , which she wrote with her Tibetan goddaughter Chime Yangzom.

Radio plays

  • 1998: The king has a bird , WDR
  • 1999: Plum with Salt , WDR
  • 2000: The Trek of the Children , WDR

Filmography

  • 1995: Inspector Rex (TV series, episode Die blind Witnessin )
  • 2000: Escape across the Himalayas (TV)
  • 2002: Danube Monasteries (TV)
  • 2005: Beyond the Himalaya (TV)
  • 2006: Holy Places (TV)
  • 2006: Pictures of a Landscape (TV)
  • 2009: Goodbye Tibet (Kinodoku)
  • 2012: As between heaven and earth (director, screenplay)
  • 2013: Jesus and the Missing Women (TV)

Book publications

  • Escape across the Himalayas , Piper Verlag , Munich 2003
  • The miracle of St. Petersburg , Piper Verlag, Munich 2004
  • Goodbye, Tibet , DuMont-Verlag , Cologne 2008
  • No path leads back , Südwest-Verlag , Munich 2011
  • At the end of the world there is always a beginning , Aurum-Verlag, Bielefeld 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Sessner: Hope bearer of a declining culture. Archive snapshot of the Bayerischer Rundfunk website, February 10, 2013, archived from the original on October 23, 2012 ; accessed on May 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Good Bye Tibet - press booklet. (PDF, 779 kB) Kick Film, archived from the original on October 8, 2013 ; Retrieved June 17, 2012 .
  3. ^ Matthias Kehrein: Maria Blumencron: Goodbye, Tibet. Epoch Times Deutschland, April 21, 2008, accessed June 15, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists - Prize Winners AZ. Axel Springer Academy, archived from the original on April 14, 2017 ; Retrieved June 15, 2012 .
  5. ^ Br.de: Lifelines - The Story of Maria Blumencron - Mutterseelenallein ( Memento from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), br.de from December 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ One to one. The talk guest: Maria Blumencron, author. Bayern 2, December 20, 2011, accessed June 15, 2012 .
  7. ^ Maria Blumencron's commitment to Tibet. WDR, November 22, 2011, archived from the original on December 27, 2011 ; Retrieved June 15, 2012 .
  8. ↑ At the end of the world there is always a beginning. In: Kamphausen.Media. Retrieved on July 13, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Blumencron, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumencron, Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, filmmaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna