Nadja Klier

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Nadja Klier (born January 31, 1973 in Dresden ) is a German photographer , writer and film producer. As the lead actress in a DEFA - children's film was u. a. known in the GDR . She works as a still photographer for film and television and as a portrait photographer for actors. Since 2015 she has also appeared as a filmmaker . She has been publishing articles for a number of years and published her first book in 2017.

Life

Klier was born in 1973 in Dresden as the daughter of the theater director Freya Klier and the musician Gottfried Klier . She grew up in East Berlin . Her mother cast her in the world premiere of Ulrich Plenzdorf's play Legende vom Glück ohne Ende in the early 1980s when she was invited to audition for Jürgen Brauer 's children's film Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns at the suggestion of Ute Lubosch . She was convincing and played the leading role of 13-year-old Countess Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns in the adaptation of the fairy tale novel by Bettina and Gisela von Arnim . The film was shot within two and a half months and had its premiere on March 7, 1985 at the Berlin Kino International . Klier actually wanted to become an actress and applied to the Ernst Busch drama school in early 1988 . Shortly before the interview, but its the time for criticizing the State has custody sedentary mother from the GDR deported. At the time, Klier was living with civil rights activist Ulrike Poppe and followed her mother to West Berlin , where she lived until after the fall of the Wall . In 1993 she passed the Abitur at a grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz and from 1998 she trained as a photographer at the Lette Association . Later she illustrated several books by her mother about the opposition pastor of the GDR, Oskar Brüsewitz or Matthias Domaschk. Through her uncle, director Michael Klier , she found successful set photography for film and television. (See under filmography: still photographer)

Nadja Klier shot the documentary film Meine Oderberger Straße with her mother Freya around 2015 . As a child she herself lived for ten years on Oderberger Strasse in the former Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg (not far from the Berlin Wall ). As a loving portrait of the street, she documents - in addition to her own experiences - its history, such as the oldest fire station in Germany or the Hirschhof initiated by non-conformist citizens and non-conformist artists (as an early form of a citizens' movement in the GDR) and v. a. the social shifts that followed the unification with the FRG on October 3, 1990, due to changes in property rights and subsequent structural changes. In 2016, she produced the second film When Mutti Goes to Work Early with her mother Freya again for the rbb and the foundation. The book Die Oderberger Straße followed in 2017 , which she wrote together with her mother and which also shows a historical and social portrait of this street.

She works as a freelance photographer with a focus on portraits and as an author.

The relationship with cameraman Kolja Brandt has a son. Since February 2018 she has been married to the former neo-Nazi, co-founder of the neo-Nazi dropout organization Exit Deutschland and book author Ingo Hasselbach .

Filmography

As an actress

As a still photographer

As a filmmaker

  • Meine Oderberger Straße , documentary / report with Freya Klier, 2015
  • When mom goes to work early - women in the GDR , documentary with Freya Klier, 2016

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freya Klier: Oskar Brüsewitz - Life and Death of a Courageous GDR Pastor . Citizens Office, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-00-013746-7 .
  2. ^ Wolfram Kempe: No man's land . In: prenzlberger–stimme.de of October 14, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Knut Elstermann : Meine Oderberger Straße on rbb-online.de, accessed on May 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lothar Heinke : Oderberger Straße, how have you changed! on tagesspiegel.de, May 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ When mom goes to work early - women in the GDR on nadjaklier.de, accessed on May 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Klier, Nadja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and former child actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden