Marianne Pletscher

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Marianne Pletscher (2013)

Marianne Pletscher (born June 25, 1946 in Zurich ) is a Swiss documentary filmmaker , author and lecturer in documentary film .

Life

Youth and education

After primary and secondary school in Zurich , Marianne Pletscher learned languages ​​at the Interpreting School in Zurich (DOZ) and graduated with a translator's diploma. She then began working as a reporter and editor for Swiss television (today Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) ) in the programs Tagesschau , Kassensturz , Antenne , CH-Magazin , Rundschau . In addition to her TV work and during long breaks, she studied political science at Harvard University , USA. She later studied feature film at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. This was followed by numerous additional training courses in adult education and a postgraduate course in development cooperation (NADEL) at ETH Zurich .

Filmmaking and teaching

Marianne Pletscher and Werner Schneider

After Pletschers assignments as a reporter foreign correspondent and editor, she specialized in documentaries , mainly for the TV program DOK and great moment of the German and Romansch television. While working for television, she also made several films as a freelance writer. She has been self-employed since July 2011. She has made over 50 medium and long documentaries and won numerous awards.

In addition to working as a film author, she also began working as a lecturer for documentary film in the 1990s , both at the Swiss television SRF and at the media training center (MAZ) in Lucerne , at the media workshop in Bern and at the International University for Film and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. She often did this teaching job with her partner, cameraman Werner Schneider. With him she made most of the films until his death in 2007. She has also worked as a supervisor on behalf of these schools several times . After 2007, supervised and trained them on behalf of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Nepal cameramen , journalists and filmmakers in the subject documentary. She worked as a coach for young filmmakers in Switzerland and Spain.

Themes of her oeuvre include a. Women, children, health, old age, dying, minorities, refugees, development cooperation, crime, prison, theater, writers. She says about herself: " Issues fly to me ".

Works

  • Leaving is not so easy - violence against women in Switzerland. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1977/1985, ISBN 3-85791-011-9 .
  • with Niklaus Scherr, Thomas Schaffroth, Katharina Ley, Rita Schiavi, Adriano Gloor: Basta - foreign workers in the 80s. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-85791-026-7 .
  • together with others: Who is afraid of the black man - Notes on Swiss asylum policy. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-85791-026-7 .
  • as publisher: DA AND DOCH SO FERN - about loving care for people with dementia . rüffer & rub Sachbuchverlag, Zurich 2014/15, ISBN 978-3-907625-74-3 , also as an audio book.
  • with Marc Bachmann (photos): Do we live in paradise? - the Bernoulli houses in Zurich . Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-502-7 .
  • with Marc Bachmann: 90 plus. With serenity and zest for life , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-85791-876-6 .
  • She also works regularly as an author for the Internet magazine www.journal21.ch

Filmography

  • 1979 Return to southern Italy (How are the guest workers laid off from Switzerland during the crisis of the 1970s doing in their homeland ?; 45 min.)
  • 1980 Here I learned that a woman can also be a person (in the Zurich women's shelter)
  • 1982 Raped once, humiliated several times (rapes of women in Switzerland)
  • 1983 Supermarket for Sexuality (sex trade in town and country and sex criminal law reform)
  • 1984 Escape from Paradise (Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka and Switzerland; 50 min.)
  • 1986 Jenseits der Landstrasse (fate of the Yenischen "children of the Landstrasse" using the example of a play by Mariella Mehr ; 58 min.)
  • 1988 Leap Day ( Günther Tschanun's bloody act , what does it say could have something to do with us; 62 min.)
  • 1989 Namibia: two women, one country, one story (two women from two cultures in one country shortly before independence; 45 min.)
  • 1990 God has 25 names (Swiss missionaries of the Bethlehem Mission Immensee : From Heidenmission to Encounter of Religions; 62 min.)
  • 1991 homeless (homeless in affluent Switzerland in the anniversary year; 50 min.)
  • 1991 Black Dream of Paradise (The New South Africa; 45 min.)
  • 1992 Telephone 156 (a telephone network that ruins people; 53 min.)
  • 1993 Meeting the fear (fear in the cities at the time of the open drug scene)
  • 1993 Cuba quasi libre (3 Swiss women who live their dream in Cuba; 50 min.)
  • 1994 The Valley of Women (A Swiss mountain farmer in Bhutan in a valley where women have more power than men; 57 min.)
  • 1995 Home or Hell (co-director and author Hans Haldimann , chronicle of a Zurich neighborhood in transition; 100 min.)
  • 1995 Three weeks in jail (everyday life in the Regensdorf prison ; 55 min.)
  • 1996 Happiness Shared (A Woman's Second Life in the Philippines)
  • 1996 Lust for love in old age (How couples between 70 and 80 get to know and love each other; 30 min.)
  • 1997 One only hears well with the heart (Original Rhaeto-Romanic version Tedlar cul cuor , portrait of the Capuchin village pastor, religion teacher and curative teacher Silvio Deragisch in Tomils GR )
  • 1997 return to the torn country (return from Switzerland to Bosnia)
  • 1997 Traveling with Fuchs and Katz ( portrait of Paul Parin and Goldy Parin-Matthèy )
  • 1998 From the inside of the labyrinth (experimental film in the prayer room of the Pöschwies prison ; 50 min.)
  • 1998 Unwanted and Unpopular (In Switzerland Kosovar Albanians; 50 min.)
  • 1999 Die Bräute Jesu (co-director and author Susanna Fanzun, German; Romansh: "Seguir la glüm", behind the monastery walls of Müstair ; 55 min.)
  • 1999 Thomas Hürlimann (portrait of the writer; 17 min.)
  • 1999 Children's Hospital Series (happy and sad stories from the Children's Hospital Zurich ; 130 min.)
  • 1999 Mariella Mehr (portrait of the writer; 16 min.)
  • 2000 World Theater (Original: The Great World Theater : Radical new version by Thomas Hürlimann: Crazy in the monastery village; 55 min.)
  • 2000 Switzerland-Kosov @ retour (Swiss soldiers in peacekeeping, returning refugees and Swiss cows)
  • 2000 Dragica Rajcić (portrait of the writer; 16 min.)
  • 2001 Animal Hospital (series, Colorful stories from the Zurich University Clinic; 130 min.)
  • 2001 Future children (children learn foreign languages ​​in Switzerland, 51 min.)
  • 2002 The hard bread of the mountains (Rhaeto-Romanic original title: Scarnuz Peruan , Alpine and Andean stories; 30 min.)
  • 2003 Escape from Sri Lanka - 20 years later (big brother in Langenthal , little brother in Jaffna ; 54 min.)
  • 2004 Better dying (dying with dignity: when you can no longer do anything and everything you are allowed to do, palliative medicine; 59 min.)
  • 2005 Antonia lets go (Let go with dignity with ALS ; 57 min.)
  • 2005 Sri Lanka one year after the tsunami (reconstruction, suffering, disappointed hopes, joie de vivre)
  • 2005 The health crisis ((«Human medicine»: focus on people and their psyche; 52 min.)
  • 2005 Portrait of Lars Müller ( Lars Müller Publishers , DesignSuisse series : Small publisher with a big name; 13 min.)
  • 2006 animals as therapists (new ways in nursing homes; 52 min.)
  • 2007 The power of anger and pain (On the 60th birthday of Mariella Mehr; 52 min.)
  • 2007 end of the world in the world theater (second version of the duo Hürlimann-Hesse on the traditional play ; 55 min.)
  • 2007 The bloody deed in the Zurich building authority (supplementary short version of the film "Leap Day" from 1988, 35 min.)
  • 2008 Volker Hesse stages Tell - an essay (The Wilhelm Tell Games in Altdorf UR 2007 promise to be completely different; 6 min.)
  • 2009 Jesus i ha di megagärn (Bible often interpreted literally in Swiss free churches; 25 min.)
  • 2009 In a foreign country (Rhaeto-Romanic original title: Schi Lunsch Naven , A village with its asylum center; 25 min.)
  • 2010 happiness in oblivion? and short film Glück has many faces (people with dementia and their carers; 50 and 17 min.)
  • 2010 The global zoo (partner for wild animals; 100 min.)
  • 2011 Your pain is also my pain (losing loved ones through suicide; 50 min.)
  • 2012 Protected in the boat together ( people affected by dementia during theater holidays , validation ; 49 min.)
  • 2013 Suffering creates care Sr. Liliane Juchli - A life for human dignity; 30 min.)
  • 2013 The global zoo 3 (The latest young animals in the 2010 hit film; 45 min.)
  • 2013 Finding meaning and hope (training video with Prof. Pauline Boss and relatives of dementia patients; 25 min.)
  • 2014–2018 coaching for documentary films, etc. a. the price of truth by Vera Freitag, Natalija and her fighting cow by Anna Katrine Thuesen, The end of the valley, but not the end of the world by Peter Frei

Awards and honors

  • 1986: Award for the best foreign TV production at the Havana Film Festival, for "Jenseits der Landstrasse"
  • 1988: 2nd Prize Documentary Film Festival New York, for "Leap Day"
  • 1995: Grand Prize Rencontres Nord-Sud, for "The Valley of Women"
  • 1996: Special Jury Prize at the Piedmont Film Festival, for “The Valley of Women”, Italian version
  • 1996: Zurich TV and Radio Prize, for “Heimat oder Hölle” with Hans Haldimann
  • 1999: 1st Premi Cristal of “Cuminanza rumantscha radio e television”, for “Seguir la glüm” (The German version of the film is called “Die Bräute Jesu”)
  • 1999: Acknowledgment award from the St Johan Mustair Monastery Foundation for “Seguir la glüm” together with Susanna Fanzun
  • 2003: Special award from the Trento Mountain Film Festival for "The hard bread of the mountains"
  • 2003: Catholic Media Prize of the Swiss Bishops' Conference, for "Better to Die"
  • 2006: Bern radio and television award for "Animals as Therapists"
  • 2010: The Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger describes Marianne Pletscher as the “ grande dame of Swiss documentary film”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3sat retrospective 1998
  2. ↑ Portrait TV-Plus 1993. Marianne Pletscher, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Course at the film school. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ DOKproductionundcoaching. Journal 21, May 19, 2012, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Helpful thinking about Alzheimer's. Marianne Pletscher, February 23, 2011, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  6. ^ Karl Hotz: How documentaries are made. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Interview with Seniorweb. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Report in Alzheimer.ch
  9. ↑ Portrait Visit
  10. ↑ Portrait of the film “Homeless” 1991. Retrieved on August 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Portrait TV-Plus 1993. Retrieved on August 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ To the film Glück im Vergessen. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pletscher, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and lecturer in documentary film
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich