Pamela Katz
Pamela Katz (occasionally Pam Katz ; * April 16, 1958 in Rhinebeck , New York ) is a German -born American screenwriter , writer and professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts .
Live and act
Katz was born in 1958 as the daughter of the psychoanalyst Natalie Becker and the philosophy professor Joseph Katz. Her Jewish parents came from Leipzig and fled to the United States via Switzerland in 1940 . She studied linguistics at Dartmouth College in Hanover and in London and graduated in 1980 with a bachelor's degree. From the mid-1980s she worked as a camera assistant on The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese , The Fabulous Baker Boys by Steve Kloves and other cinema productions.
She has been working as a screenwriter since the mid-1990s and among other things wrote the scripts for German cinema productions such as 2 men, 2 women - 4 problems !? and German TV productions like Divorce on Wheels . In 2003, together with the German director Margarethe von Trotta , she wrote the script for the film drama Rosenstrasse about the so-called Rosenstrasse Protest . She was nominated for the German Film Prize for her screenplay for Hannah Arendt , also written together with von Trotta .
In addition to scripts, Katz also writes novels, essays and short stories. In 2001 she published the novel Die Seeräuberin. A Lotte Lenya novel , a biographical novel about the life of Lotte Lenya .
Since 2006 she has been a professor in the screenwriting department at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.
Katz has been married to the German cameraman Florian Ballhaus since February 1988 .
Publications (selection)
Filmography
As a screenwriter
- 1989: Caro nome
- 1994: everything at the beginning
- 1998: 2 men, 2 women - 4 problems !?
- 2000: Divorce on wheels
- 2003: Rosenstrasse
- 2011: The lost time
- 2012: Hannah Arendt
- 2017: Forget about Nick
As a camera assistant
- 1983: Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (documentary)
- 1987: Penguins in the Bronx
- 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ
- 1989: The fabulous Baker Boys
- 1990–1991: Law & Order (TV series, six episodes)
- 1991: Jungle Fever
Fonts
- 2001: The pirate. A Lotte Lenya novel, Aufbau-Verlag
- 2015: The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink, Knopf Doubleday
Awards (selection)
- Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for Hannah Arendt
Premis Gaudí 2014
- Nomination in the category Best European Film for Hannah Arendt
Web links
- Pamela Katz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pamela Katz in the database of Filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Pamela Katz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela Katz: Scripting Hannah Arendt | NYCityWoman.com. March 24, 2016, accessed July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Pamela Katz. In: tisch.nyu.edu. Tisch School of the Arts, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Jan Lisa Huttner: Jan Chats with Pamela Katz. August 24, 2004, accessed July 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katz, Pamela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Katz, Pam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, writer and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rhinebeck , United States |