Ruth Olshan
Ruth Olshan (* 1970 in Moscow ) is a German film producer and director and screenwriter .
Life
Ruth Olshan was born in Moscow and came to West Berlin via Austria and Israel. From 1989 to 1990 she took private acting lessons and from 1992 to 1994 she initially trained as a publishing clerk. On a grant from the Sir Richard Attenborough Foundation , she studied film at the Northern School of Film & Television in the British city of Leeds from 1996 to 1998 . She then continued her training in directing and film production at the Cologne Art Academy for Media .
She works as a screenwriter, writer and film director for documentaries and feature films.
Olshan had her first involvement in the film industry in 1992 as an actress in the short film Die auf den Nüssen and had a second appearance in 1994 in Hosenlos . Olshan made her debut as a screenwriter and film director in 2000 in the film Handstand , which received various prizes at German festivals. More films followed. The feature film "Savannah" was her directorial debut in fictional storytelling. "Tanz der Saris" was her first documentary for ARTE / ZDR. The cinema documentary "How air to breathe" premiered in 2005 at the Locarno International Film Festival. Another cinema documentary "Not quite kosher" followed. She also worked in many other film projects, mainly for German documentaries and short films, as a screenwriter and director at home and abroad. Olshan has received several awards at home and abroad for her work. In 2019 the German Producer Award, the German Television Award, a nomination for the Grimme Award and the Golden Camera for the script for the television film "Aufbruch in die Freiheit".
In 2015 she published her first novel "All the beautiful things" with Oetinger Verlag. She published two other novels under a pseudonym.
Ruth Olshan has been working at the ifs Cologne (International Film School Cologne) since 2018 as a professor for "Audiovisual Media in Documentary Narrative". She has other teaching assignments at the HFF Munich and various universities abroad.
Filmography
Film director
- 2000: Hour Hotel (feature film)
- 2000: The handstand (short film)
- 2000: When God Coughs (short film for children)
- 2001: ¿QUIEN ERES TÚ? (Short film)
- 2002: Savannah (Feature)
- 2003: Dance of the Saris (documentary)
- 2005: Like air to breathe (documentary)
- 2010: Change of perspective (short documentary film)
- 2010: What is kosher for you? (Video installation)
- 2011: Not quite kosher (television documentary) - nominated for Gerd Ruge Award
- 2014: Only helps kissing (short film)
- 2019: Why Follow The Law? (Documentary for the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin)
Screenwriter and writer
- 2000: When God Coughs (short film for children)
- 2000: Hour Hotel (feature film)
- 2001: ¿Quién eres tú? (Short film)
- 2001: The handstand (short film)
- 2005: Like air to breathe (documentary)
- 2005: Dance of the Saris (documentary short film)
- 2016: And suddenly I was his (TV feature film)
- 2016: All the beautiful things (youth novel, Oetinger Verlag)
- 2017: My new time (TV feature film)
- 2017: I belong to him
- 2018: Departure to freedom
actress
- 1992: Those who go nuts (short film)
- 1994: Pantsless (short film)
Web links
- Ruth Olshan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ruth Olshan at kuenstlerinnenpreis.nrw.de
- Profile on Drehbuchwerkstatt.de
- Own website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olshan, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, screenwriter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Soviet Union |