Marion Kainz

Marion Kainz (born June 9, 1966 in Duisburg ) is a German film director , screenwriter and camerawoman . She became known through her documentary film “The day that disappeared in the handbag” (D 1999; 33 min.). In Marl she received the Grimme Prize for her work and the Audience Award of the Marler Group for her work as a director, screenwriter and camerawoman.

Marion Kainz has lived in Berlin-Pankow since the end of 2006 after stopping in Munich and Cologne .

Professional background

After a guest study at the HFF Munich in the documentary film class, Kainz studied communication design at the University of Essen . From 1988 to 1993 she worked as a freelance photographer and graphic designer. Travel and photo projects in Europe, Australia and the USA followed from 1993 to 1996, then in 1996 she worked as a freelance camerawoman and film editor. In 1997 and 1998 she was a picture author (director and camera) for Ruhrwerk , a multimedia theater piece about the Ruhr area. She has been a freelance filmmaker since 1999 and completed a postgraduate course in film / television at the KHM Cologne in 2001.

Awards

• 2000 Made in Germany Audience Award, Hamburg Short Film Festival
• 2000 award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the directing category
• 2001 1st German Short Film Award Filmfest Stuttgart Ludwigsburg
• 2001 nomination for the German Camera Prize
• 2001 FIPA d'argent, Biarritz FIPA
• 2002 Axel Springer Prize
• 2002 Adolf Grimme Prize and Audience Prize of the Marler Group
• 2003 William Dieterle Film Prize (special prize) from the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Festival participation

• Figueira da Foz, Portugal
• Kassel Documentary and Video Festival Kassel
• DocumentArt Neubrandenburg
• Int. Film festival Vision du Réel Nyon
• Int. Short film festival Hamburg
• Film Festival Stuttgart Ludwigsburg
• FIPA Biarritz
• Duisburg Film Week

The day that disappeared in the purse

The day that disappeared in the handbag is about the former flower maker Eva Mauerhoff, who suffers from Alzheimer's and has lived in the Peter Kuhn nursing home in Duisburg since 1998 .

The film accompanies the old lady in her everyday life as she tries to remember fragments of the past. With all the necessary distance and sensitivity to the main actress, Kainz documents the feelings and everyday life of Ms. Mauerhoff in a warm visual language without moralizing. Kainz has succeeded in creating a closeness between the viewer and Ms. Mauerhoff with sensitive images. The film deliberately dispenses with cinematic stylistic devices such as comments, effects and music, so that the viewer can experience life in a nursing home up close in an unadulterated picture. Ms. Mauerhoff died 7 years after the film on March 21, 2006.

Web links

• Marion Kainz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• CV with picture
• Report on Marion Kainz and her film ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )