Martina Zöllner

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Martina Zöllner at the Max Ophüls Prize 2015 film festival

Martina Zöllner (* July 1961 in Speyer ) is a German journalist, writer, television editor and manager.

Life

While studying German and English at the Free University of Berlin , Zöllner began working as a freelance journalist and author for the cultural editorial offices of various ARD stations; after completing his studies full-time and from 1990 regularly for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). In 1993 she was employed by SDR as an editor in the area of ​​"Current TV Culture". When the SDR merged with the Südwestfunk to form the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in 1998 , she took over the management of the cultural documentations department of the SWR and, from 2007, also the documentary film editor. During this time Zöllner initiated and supervised numerous documentaries and documentary series, including a. the mailing list "Auschwitz and no end", the portrait series "German CVs" and the four-part essay What was left? and was editorially responsible for numerous documentaries and cultural television documentaries. The ARD series Germany, your artists was created on their initiative. In 2008 she went to Israel for a year for private reasons.

In the following years, Zöllner held other positions at SWR. From October 2011 she was head of television culture; In 2013 she became head of the main department "Film and Culture", and finally the main department "Film and Documentation". As editor of the real- time series Zeit der Helden , she was awarded the German Television Prize in 2013 for the idea and conception and the Grimme Prize in 2014. She also received the German Television Prize for editing the first part of the ARD trilogy "NSU - Mitten in Deutschland" (2016) and the fictional two-part "Brothers" (2017). She is responsible for numerous film debuets and cinema co-productions. For example, the multi-award-winning film "Toni Erdmann" under Zöllner's direction as a co-production with SWR. She is considered a committed supporter of documentary films and young film talent.

In June 2017 she moved from SWR to Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), where she took over the management of the newly created program area "Documentation and Fiction". With that she moved from Baden-Baden back to Berlin. In June 2018, under her editorial responsibility, the film adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's novel "Submission" was broadcast on the First.

Zöllner published two novels, both of which were published by DuMont : her debut Bleibtreu appeared in 2003, and Hundert Frauen in 2009 .

Awards

Martina Zöllner at the 2014 Grimme Prize

2017: German television award for "Today is not every day" - part 1 of the trilogy "Mitten in Deutschland - NSU" (editor, together with Ulrich Herrmann) 2018: German television award for the two-part "Brothers" (editor)

Filmography (selection)

  • 2001: German CVs (documentary television series)
  • 2001: Broadway Bruchsal (documentary television series)
  • 2002: A child from afar (documentary television series)
  • 2005: Horst Buchholz ... my papa (documentary)
  • 2006: Brecht - the art of living (documentary)
  • 2007: Bierbichler (documentary film)
  • 2008: The Heart of Jenin (documentary)
  • 2008: Germany, your artists (documentary television series)
  • 2012: The Billion Promise (TV Documentary)
  • 2013: Time of Heroes (TV series)
  • 2013: George (TV movie)
  • 2016: The perpetrators - Today is not every day (television documentary)
  • 2017: Beuys (documentary)
  • from 2017: WaPo Bodensee (TV series)

Works

Web links

Commons : Martina Zöllner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50th Grimme Prize 2014. Martina Zöllner grimme-preis.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Claudia Tieschky: SWR-Kultur-Chefin Martina Zöllner. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 27, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Prize winners 2013. deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ 50th Grimme Prize 2014. Time of Heroes (SWR / ARTE) grimme-preis.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Martina Zöllner takes over the new program area "Documentation and Fiction" in the Berlin-Brandenburg radio station. rbb-online.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Winner 1978-2017 dnk.de. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Customs officer, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer, television editor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer