Monika Schindler

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Monika Schindler (born January 12, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German film editor who rose to become one of the most renowned editors in the DEFA studio for feature films. She worked with DEFA film directors such as Roland Gräf , Herrmann Zschoche and Günter Reisch and was able to continue her career after the fall of the Wall in collaboration with directors such as Andreas Dresen and Winfried Bonengel . On April 28, 2017, she was, in general, as the first editor of at the awarding of the German Film Prize awarded the "Honorary Award for outstanding contributions to the German Film".

Life

Monika Schindler began an apprenticeship as a film photographer in the DEFA studio for feature films in 1955, where she was also employed in the photocopier technology and in the trick department as part of her basic photographic training. In preparation for her studies, she worked in the editing room for a year and assisted, among others, Hildegard Conrad in Joachim Kunert's film Der Lotterieschwede (1958) and the renowned editor Lena Neumann , who had been there since the silent film era and made various montages for the Tobis . In 1958 she began her three-year course of study at the Potsdam University of Film and Television, specializing in film editing , which she completed with a diploma.

She then returned to the DEFA studio for feature films, where she initially worked as an assistant, later also edited her first film productions independently, and finally got a contract as an editor and her own editing room in 1968. Her first montage work, Egon Günther's satirical comedy When you are big, dear Adam (1965), could not get into the cinemas at the time because the film was banned by the GDR censors. Nevertheless, she advanced to become one of the most respected specialists in the studio and became the preferred editor of directors such as Roland Gräf , Herrmann Zschoche and Günter Reisch ; but also worked with Sergei Gerasimow and Werner Jacobs .

With the fall of the Wall, Schindler was one of the few filmmakers at DEFA to also work successfully in the unified Germany. She was able to bring her experience to bear on projects by younger directors such as Andreas Dresen . Even in old age she continues to work; For example, in 2016 she cut the crime scene Five Minutes Sky for the 45 years younger director Katrin Gebbe .

Monika Schindler has worked as an editor on over 100 films and has received several awards. In 2000 she received the German Film Prize for editing Hans Warns - My 20th Century . In 2001 she won the Editing Prize of the Cologne Festival Filmplus in the "Feature Film" category for Die Polizistin , and in 2010 she received the Geißendörfer Editing Prize for her life's work at the same festival .

Filmography (selection)

DEFA films

Films after the fall of the Wall

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schindler, Monika ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DEFA Foundation , accessed August 24, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.defa-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ Press release of the German Film Academy on the honorary award for Monika Schindler 2017 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-filmpreis.de
  3. ↑ Homage and Honorary Prize Filmplus 2010
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin