Petra Lüschow

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Petra Lüschow (born 1966 ) is a German author , director and dramaturge .

life and work

After studying theater, film and literature at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna , Lüschow studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Potsdam University of Film and Television from 1996 to 2001 . In 2000 she published her volume of short stories "Flores and Antiflores". Petra Lüschow began working as a dramaturge and screenwriter during her studies.

Her first movie was " Aftershock ". In 2006 the film celebrated its world premiere in the Panorama of the Berlinale with Michael Neuenschwander , Susanne Maria Wrage and Bettina Stucky in the leading roles and won international awards. Aftershock shows how the greed of the New Economy affects private relationships as an intense intimate play. In 2008 she wrote the cinema adaptation of the bestseller " Tannöd ", in which Julia Jentsch , Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch played the leading roles. Scripts for television series (including Tatort, Bulle von Tölz), television films such as the comedy “Der Hamster” with Roeland Wiesnekker or the small television play “See to you that you win land” with Anna Maria Mühe are also part of her work as an author.

In 2010 she made her debut as a director with the short film comedy "Der kleine Nazi", for which she also wrote the screenplay. The theme of the black humor comedy with Steffi Kühnert , Oliver Stokowski and Christine Schorn in the leading roles is the bigoted confrontation of many Germans with the National Socialist past of their family. The film was shown at over a hundred festivals around the world and won numerous international jury and audience awards, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award and the Best Comedy Award from the international short film festival “Heart of Gold” in Melbourne.

In 2018 her feature film debut “Petting instead of Pershing” had its German premiere at the Hof International Film Festival . The comedy with Florian Stetter , Anna Florkowski, Christina Große , Thorsten Merten , Britta Hammelstein and Barbara Philipp was released in 2019. Petra Lüschow received the New Direction Competition Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival for her direction.

Petra Lüschow taught dramatic writing and dramaturgy at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) , the Babelsberg Film University Konrad Wolf and the International Film School ifs in Cologne . She is a member of the German Film Academy and the Association of German Screenwriters and lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Direction and script

  • 2010: The Little Nazi (short film)
  • 2018: Petting instead of Pershing (movie)

script

Awards (selection)

  • For Petting instead of Pershing , Petra Lüschow received the New Direction Competition Award in 2019 at the Cleveland International Film.
  • The little Nazi was u. a. Awarded the Best Short Film Award of the Trieste Film Festival, Short Film Award of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Best Comedy Award of the Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival Melbourne, Audience Award and Award for Best Short Film of the Bamberg Film Festival and 15 other awards. It also received the rating "Particularly valuable" from the German film and television rating.
  • Transfer (unfilmed script) won 1st prize in the closed author competition of Atlas Film and Hanns Eckelkamp Filmproduktion in 2001 for a remake of Mabuse - The Player from 1926.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüschow, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director and film dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH 1966