Sabine Herpich

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Sabine Herpich (born October 2, 1973 in Bavaria ) is a German film director and film editor who is mainly active in the field of documentary films . She is also part of the four-member managing directors collective of the fsk cinema and peripheral film distribution in Berlin .

Live and act

Training and first films

Sabine Herpich studied philosophy , modern German literature and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1996 to 2002 . After graduating, she moved to Berlin, where she initially worked as a projectionist .

She developed her own film ideas with a colleague who was friends and applied to the Filmarche , an independent, self-organized film school , in 2005 . Since her preferred subject “Documentary Film Directing” was not yet available at the time, she decided instead to take the “ Editing ” course. Her fellow students also included Arche co-founder Nora Fingscheidt , whose short film Auszeit was edited by Herpich.

One of her honorary guest lecturers at the Filmarche was Gerhard Schumm , full-time professor at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy . Inspired by his lessons, Sabine Herpich decided to start a second degree in Babelsberg . From 2006 to 2012 she studied there in the “Assembly” department. She edited several short films by Jöns Jönsson and co-directed and co-wrote the medium-length feature film Wertingen with him . The assembly work she did outside of film school for Christina Ebelt's medium-length feature film Wanna Be received a nomination for Best Editing at the German Camera Prize in 2009 .

Sabine Herpich wanted to do other directing work of her own during her assembly studies, which, however, turned out to be difficult in the course planning that was divided into trades. Nevertheless, she managed to realize the 97-minute documentary Neukölln-Aktiv as a diploma project, co-directed with Gregor Stadlober . Neukölln-Aktiv uses “ Direct Cinema ” funds to observe a socialization measure for young men who have not graduated from school and have no prospect of an apprenticeship, who receive “activation help” from a social worker and two teachers. For the first time in her projects, Herpich was also responsible for the image design as a camerawoman - one reason why she opted for a static, calmly observing narrative form that also went well with the content of the film. Since then, Herpich has also appeared in her own directing work as a camerawoman and producer , and has also edited most of the films herself.

Work as a director, editor and cinema manager

According to her own admission, after completing her studies, Sabine Herpich planned to make a living from her work as an editor in order to be “completely free” in her own directing projects and to help finance her own films through her editing income. However, she did not succeed because of the fluctuating order situation. It was only when she received the offer in 2015 to become a collective member of the fsk cinema, where she had already worked as a student, that her professional situation stabilized. Since then, Herpich has been running the fsk cinema and the affiliated Peripheral film distribution company together with Martin Krelker, Barbara Suhren and Christian Suhren.

Her second feature film as a director was the documentary Immigration . The portrait of a Roma family who is in danger of breaking up in institutions in Berlin, co-directed with migration researcher Diana Botescu, won the documentary award at the dokKa film festival in Karlsruhe .

This was followed by the artist portraits David (2016) and Ein Bild von Aleksander Gudalo (2018), in which Herpich carefully observes the work processes of their protagonists: David Laugomer, who as a shoemaker allows himself the financial leeway for his sculptures, and Aleksander Gudalo , in which the creation process of a painting was accompanied from beginning to end.

In the documentary art comes out of the beak as it has grown, Herpich also observes the creation of art, this time as a collective portrait: 16 artists with various disabilities who are creatively active in a supervised setting in the Spandau mosaic art workshop, which can not only be seen in exhibitions, but are also sold on the international art market. The film premiered in the Forum section of the Berlinale 2020 .

Filmography (selection)

Directing work 

Key: D = script, R = direction, K = camera, M = assembly, P = production

  • 2011: Wertingen (medium length film) - D, R, M, P / Co-Director & Co-Script: Jöns Jönsson
  • 2012: Neukölln-Aktiv (documentary) - R, K, M, P / Co-director: Gregor Stadlober
  • 2014: Immigration (documentary) - R, K, P / Co-Director: Diana Botescu
  • 2016: David (documentary) - R, K, P
  • 2018: A picture by Aleksander Gudalo (medium-length documentary) - R, K, M, P
  • 2020: Art comes out of the beak as it has grown (cinema documentary) - R, K, M, P / Co-Production: Tobias Büchner

Assembly work 

  • 2006: I Say Hello, You Say Goodbye (short feature film) - Director: Arne Kohlweyer
  • 2007: The Stone Has a Memory (short documentary) - Director: Jöns Jönsson
  • 2008: Auszeit (short feature film) - Director: Nora Fingscheidt
  • 2009: The Sea (Havet) (short feature film) - Director: Jöns Jönsson
  • 2009: Wanna Be (medium length film) - Director: Christina Ebelt
  • 2013: Back to Ghana (documentary) - Director: Jule Cramer
  • 2014: The Invisible (documentary) - Director: Benjamin Kahlmeyer

Awards

  • 2010: German Camera Prize : nomination for Best Editing for Wanna Be
  • 2014: dokKa-Förderpreis documentary film for immigrants

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Herpich. Film portal , accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c biography. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Lukas Foerster: Filmmaking as a hobby? Pearl Divers , May 25, 2018, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 20th German Camera Prize 2010 - The nominations have been made. Westdeutscher Rundfunk , May 20, 2010, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Neukölln Active. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Jana Wolff: Discussion Protocol No. 23 on Neukölln-Aktiv. (PDF) Duisburger Filmwoche , November 10, 2012, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ fsk cinema - Berlin. kinokompendium.de, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Imprint. fsk-Kino, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Lukas Foerster: The mouse in the cellar. Perlentaucher , June 12, 2014, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The prices of the dokKa Festival 2014. dokKa Film Festival Karlsruhe, 2014, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  11. ↑ David. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ A picture by Aleksander Gudalo. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: Outsider art at the Berlinale: “Success doesn't matter there” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 27, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on February 28, 2020]).
  14. ^ Art workshop Mosaik Berlin - exhibitions. Mosaik-Berlin gGmbH, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Art comes out of the beak as it has grown. Büchner Filmproduktion, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Art comes out of the beak as it has grown. Berlinale catalog , accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Movies. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  18. ↑ assembly. Sabine Herpich, accessed on February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Herpich, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, film editor and cinema director
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1973