Petra Volpe

Petra Biondina Volpe (born August 6, 1970 in Suhr AG ) is an Italian - Swiss screenwriter and director .

Life

Volpe studied art in Zurich from 1992 to 1994. She then lived in New York City for two years before returning to Zurich and working there as a film editor . Subsequently, Volpe studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam until 2001 . Since then she has been working as a freelance screenwriter and director.

She became known to a wider audience with the film The Divine Order .

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: The Kiss (Director, Screenplay)
• 2001: Crevetten (Director)
• 2002: Schlorkbabies at the service station (director, screenplay)
• 2009: spring in autumn
• 2013: Lovely Louise (screenplay)
• 2013: Traumland (Director, Screenplay)
• 2015: Heidi (screenplay)
• 2017: The Divine Order (Director, Screenplay)

Awards

• 2010: Television play award and Ludwigsburg Film Academy Student Jury Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for spring in autumn
• 2014: Günter Rohrbach Film Prize for Traumland
• 2017: Swiss Film Award in the "Best Screenplay" category for The Divine Order
• 2017: Nora Ephron Prize and Tribeca Film Festival Audience Prize for Divine Order
• 2020: Scholarship for the artist residence Villa Aurora

Web links

• Petra Volpe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Petra Volpe at filmportal.de
• Petra Volpe at swissfilms.ch
• Simone Meier : Petra Volpe: The Successful , Emma from June 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} biography of Petra Biondina Volpe on swissfilms.ch. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
2. ↑ Julia Bähr: In a country before our time . August 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2018. 
3. ↑ Michael Ballhaus grant: camerawoman Judith Kaufmann awarded , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from February 8, 2020, accessed February 18, 2020