Pia Lenz

Pia Lenz receives the 2018 Grimme Prize

Pia-Luisa Lenz (* 1986 in Herne ) is a German documentary filmmaker and journalist .

Life

Pia-Luisa Lenz lives in Hamburg. She volunteered at Norddeutscher Rundfunk and has since worked as an author and reporter for the editorial offices of Panorama (ARD / NDR) and has made documentaries for cinema and TV. After studying in Dortmund and Columbia, she did her Masters at the Hamburg Media School and worked as a freelance journalist.

The documentary Hudekamp - a Heimatfilm (with co-author Christian von Brockhausen) was broadcast for the first time on NDR television in November 2012 and was awarded the German Television Prize 2013 and the German Social Prize. The film is about life in the Lübeck high-rise housing estate Hudekamp .

In her cinema debut Alles gut (German theatrical release in March 2017), the filmmaker tells about arriving in Germany from the perspective of two children from Syria and Macedonia. The film was u. a. Invited to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the USA, screened in German competition at Dokfest Munich and at other European documentary film festivals. Alles gut was nominated for the German Film Critics' Prize, which is awarded at the Berlinale. In 2018 Pia-Luisa Lenz was awarded the Grimme Prize for Alles gut .

Awards

2013: German Television Award - Hudekamp - a home movie
2013: German Social Award - Hudekamp - a home movie
2015: German Business Film Award
2016: Nomination Prix Europa
2017: Herbert Quandt Media Prize
2018: Nomination for the German Film Critics' Prize - Alles gut
2018: Grimme Prize - All good - arriving in Germany
2018: Grimme Prize - with panorama for G20 reporting

Individual evidence

↑ Integration is still about people. In: Jetzt.de. March 21, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
^ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: German Economic Film Award . Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
↑ Media Prize 2017. Johanna Quandt Foundation, accessed on June 1, 2019 .
↑ The nominations for the German Film Critics Award 2017 have been confirmed. Association of German Film Critics, accessed on June 1, 2019 .
↑ 54th Grimme Prize 2018 - Alles gut - Ankommen in Deutschland (NDR / SWR). Grimme Institute, accessed June 1, 2019 .
↑ 54th Grimme Prize 2018 - Volker Steinhoff, Sven Lohmann and Dietmar Schiffermüller. Grimme Institute, accessed June 1, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Pia Lenz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Pia Lenz at filmportal.de

personal data
SURNAME	Lenz, Pia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lenz, Pia-Luisa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German documentary filmmaker and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herne

[:0-1] Integration is still about people. In: Jetzt.de. March 21, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .

[2] Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: German Economic Film Award . Retrieved May 19, 2018 .

[3] Media Prize 2017. Johanna Quandt Foundation, accessed on June 1, 2019 .

[4] The nominations for the German Film Critics Award 2017 have been confirmed. Association of German Film Critics, accessed on June 1, 2019 .

[5] 54th Grimme Prize 2018 - Alles gut - Ankommen in Deutschland (NDR / SWR). Grimme Institute, accessed June 1, 2019 .

[6] 54th Grimme Prize 2018 - Volker Steinhoff, Sven Lohmann and Dietmar Schiffermüller. Grimme Institute, accessed June 1, 2019 .