Nicole Joens
Nicole Joens (born as Nicole Houwer ; born December 25, 1961 in Munich ) is a German screenwriter , film producer , author of non-fiction, novels, short stories and detective novels, as well as a publisher and editor at CINDIGOfilm GmbH.
Life
Nicole Joens was born in Munich in 1961 and went to the USA for 7 years after graduating from high school. She graduated from Hunter College in New York in 1986 and worked for several years as an editor in the USA in the field of documentary film ( National Geographic Society , Metropolitan Museum of Art , PBS ). Her later focus was the music documentary ( Karajan in Salzburg , Pavarotti in China - Distant Harmony , The Stations of Bach ) and led back to Germany. From 1991 she worked as an assistant director at Parsmedia for documentaries such as Celibidache by Jan Schmidt-Garre. At the same time, the first screenplays in the area of cinema / children's films were created, which were funded by the FFF Bayern.
She made her television debut as a screenwriter at WDR in 1997 with Margarethe von Trottas Winterkind . Other TV films, TV series and soap operas for ARD and ZDF ( Marienhof, Am liebsten Marlene , Forsthaus Falkenau , Die Rettungsflieger ) followed. In 2010 she published her first novel at Piper Verlag Maria sucht Josef . Further book publications followed. Novels, short stories and non-fiction books at Piper Verlag, Diana Verlag and CINDIGO.
In 2010 Nicole Joens founded CINDIGOfilm GmbH and produced the documentary film Woodstock in Timbuktu - the art of resistance (EAN 426-0-319630-02-2) by the director Désirée von Trotha with WDR, which received the rating of particularly valuable and ran at festivals around the world.
Filmography script
- 1991: Darn and Sewn up (funded by FFF)
- 1992: Teddy's World Tour (funded by FFF)
- 1997: Winterkind (WDR)
- 1999/2000: Preferably Marlene (ZDF)
- 2000–2003: Forester's House Falkenau (ZDF)
- 2001: Visit from Bangkok (WDR)
- 2002-2005: ambulance pilot (ZDF)
- 2008: Happiness on the Horizon (ARD Degeto)
- 2008: Maria sucht Josef (funded by FFF)
Published books
- Maria sucht Josef, ISBN 978-3-492-25958-3
- Hop Queen, ISBN 978-3-944251-26-4
- Glycinienmord, ISBN 978-3-944251-19-6
- Valley of the Thousand Mists, ISBN 978-3-944251-38-7 (pseudonym Noemi Jordan)
- Island of Black Pearls, ISBN 978-3-492-27286-5
- Corrupt media power, ISBN 978-3-944251-42-4
- Dance of Lemons, ISBN 978-3-944251-13-4
Web links
- Nicole Joens' Facebook page
- CINDIGOfilm GmbH website
- Woodstock in Timbuktu, cinema documentary 2013, predicate particularly valuable
- Nicole Joens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nicole Houwer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Nicole Joens in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.piper.de/autoren/nicole-joens-2802 accessed on November 20, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joens, Nicole |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Houwer, Nicole (maiden name); Houwer-Joens, Nicole (married name); Jordan, Noemi (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |