Mirjam Unger

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Mirjam Unger, 2013

Mirjam Unger (born August 9, 1970 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna ) is an Austrian film director , screenwriter , presenter and photographer .

Live and act

Mirjam Unger graduated from the Lycée Français de Vienne in 1987 . From 1988 to 1989 she spent a year in Brazil with AFS . She then went to ORF , where she worked as a reporter and presenter for the Ö3 broadcast ZickZack until 1995 . She presented and designed the ORF youth program X-Large from 1991 to 1995, and she presented the TV magazine Nitebox from 1996 to 1997. She is a founding member of Radio FM4 . 1995–2012 she moderated the programs Connected and Homebase on the Austrian radio station FM4 . She currently speaks on the radio occasionally on Ö1 z. B. the Ö1 Radio Colloquium - Pop Lexicon. Since 2012 she has dedicated herself primarily to her film work and moderates live events.

From 1993 to 2001 she studied directing with Wolfgang Glück at the Vienna Film Academy and in this context she produced several internationally award-winning short films such as Speak Easy (1997) and More or Less (1999). Contract work such as image or advertising films as well as music videos such as Es ist so schade for the band Lassie Singers or 2009 Into the Future for the Austrian electro formation Bunny Lake were created . She completed her first feature film in 2000: Ternitz, Tennessee (see also Ternitz and Tennessee ). Personalities from their FM4 environment, such as Gerald Votava as " Elvis " imitator or Clemens Haipl , as well as Nina Proll (in the main role, Roland Düringer and Doris Schretzmayer in supporting roles) play a role. In 2005 she founded the photo partnership with Pamela Russmann: miupar. In 2007 she released her first documentary Vienna's Lost Daughters . The film won the audience award at Diagonale 2007 and was released on DVD in 2010 as part of the standard edition “ Der Austrian Film ”.

As an author (co-author Veronika Weidinger) and director, she produced the documentary film Oh Yeah, She Performs! With Wiener Mobile Filmproduktion . about the Austrian musicians Gustav , Clara Luzia , Teresa Rotschopf and Luise Pop . The film premiered at the Viennale in 2012 and was released on DVD in 2014 as part of the standard edition “Der Austrian Film”.

In 2016 her film adaptation of Christine Nöstlingers Maikäfer flied! at the Diagonale premiere. The film adaptation of Nöstlinger's childhood received national and international awards such as the award for Best Actress at Diagonale 2016 for Uschi Strauss , the award for the best youth film at the Filmkunstfest Schwerin 2017, the award for the best film and best film of the youth jury at the festival moment in Alsace, Strasbourg 2017, and two Austrian Film Awards 2017 for the best sound design and the best costume.

Mirjam Unger also works as a documentary filmmaker and journalist for the ORF program Am Schauplatz . Her documentary Poverty Isn't Child's Play 2014 about child poverty in Austria received the Prälat-Leopold-Ungar Prize in the TV category and the prize "from below" for the best TV documentary. In 2015, the TV documentary Meine Scar! about women who talk about caesarean births and the consequences. The film was nominated for Romy 2015.

Mirjam Unger works as a screenwriter in a duo with co-author Sandra Bohle . In 2018 she directed a TV series for the first time: episode 36-40 of the fourth season Die Vorstadtweiber . In 2019 she worked as a director again for five episodes of Vorstadtweiber for the 5th season .

Filmography

  • 1994: Sunrise (short film, 8 min)
  • 1995: House of Sirius (short film, 13 min)
  • 1996: Message from H. (short film, 15 min)
  • 1997: Speak Easy (short film, 20 min)
  • 1999: More or less (short film, 18 min)
  • 2000: Ternitz, Tennessee (feature film, 80 min)
  • 2002: The whole night (short film, 14 min)
  • 2007: Vienna's Lost Daughters (documentary, 87 min)
  • 2012: Oh Yeah, She Performs (documentary, 101 min)
  • 2014: At the scene "Poverty is not child's play" (doc 50 min)
  • 2014: My Scar (doc 60 min)
  • 2016: cockchafer fly! (Feature film 100 min)
  • 2016: At the location "Seestadt" (doc 50 min)
  • 2017: At the scene "The woman at the weapon" (Doc 50 min)
  • 2018/19: Vorstadtweiber season four episodes 36–40, Vorstadtweiber season five episodes 41–45 (TV series, 10 × 48 min)

Awards

Best youth film at the Filmkunstfest Schwerin 2017 (GERMANY) Best film and best film of the youth jury at the Festival Moment Elsass, Strasbourg 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press kit for Vienna's Lost Daughters (PDF), page 14 ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Nöstlinger meets Pippi Longstocking. orf.at of March 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ orf.at - Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Preis to ORF.at journalists . Article dated November 5, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Unger, Mirjam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian radio presenter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg near Vienna , Austria