Regine Kühn
Regine Kühn ; born Regine Walter (born November 23, 1941 in Torgau ) is a German screenwriter and translator .
Life
Regine Kühn is the daughter of surveyor Fritz Walter and his wife Rosemarie, née Goldberg. After graduating from high school in 1960, she studied theater studies in Moscow from 1960 to 1965 . In 1962 she married the director Siegfried Kühn . The two sons Klemens (* 1964) and Jakob (* 1969) come from the marriage.
Back in the GDR since 1966, she was given a teaching position at the Potsdam Film and Television Academy . She started her career as a screenwriter with the contemporary film Time of the Storks, based on a story by Herbert Otto . Already here she took an idiosyncratic course with her portrayal of the different perspectives of the people involved. A little later she adapted Goethe's The Elective Affinities .
During the GDR era, her preference for explosive materials only appeared twice, in the films Our Short Life and The Actress . Immediately after the fall of the Wall , she presented the problem of upheaval in a woman's life in Die Lügnerin . In 1994 she received the German Script Award for her screenplay Zarah L about Zarah Leander . The filming is currently in preparation. After that she worked mainly on documentaries dealing with the history of the Soviet Union.
Filmography
- 1970: time of the storks
- 1971: Avant-garde (theater recording)
- 1973: The pigeon on the roof
- 1974: Elective affinities
- 1980: our short life
- 1980: Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78
- 1988: the actress
- 1989: tracks
- 1992: The Liar
- 1994: Kremlin Women (TV movie)
- 1996: Long after the battle / The end of an occupation (also director)
- 1996: Death in the Kremlin (TV film, also director)
- 1999: Angel of Death (TV movie)
- 1999: Aviatricen - the stars of Stalin's aviation (TV film, also director)
- 2000: Silence is gold (TV movie)
- 2000: Zone M
- 2000: Trotsky's Dream - Psychoanalysis in the Land of the Bolsheviks (TV film, also director)
- 2003: The most beautiful from Bitterfeld (TV film).
Translations (from Russian)
- Sergej M. Eisenstein : Yo. Myself. Memoirs. 2 volumes. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, (translation with Rita Braun)
- Alexander Goldstein : Think of Famagusta. Novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-227-1 (from the Russian Pomni o Famaguste. )
- Ilyazd: Philosophia . Novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-475-6
- Ilyazd: Rapture . Novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-619-4
Awards
- 1972: Heinrich Greif Prize 2nd class for the time of the storks in the collective
- 1981: Art Prize of the FDGB
- 1989: Art Prize of the FDGB in the collective for the actress
- 1994: German Screenplay Award for Zarah L
Web links
- Regine Kühn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Regine Kühn at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bold, Regine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walter, Regine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau , Saxony, Germany |