Sabine Rollberg

Sabine Rollberg (2016)

Sabine Rollberg (born August 9, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German professor for artistic television formats, film and television as well as a former Arte representative and editor-in-chief of the Arte editorial team at WDR . She developed and supervised a wide variety of TV programs and became internationally known as a committed film editor and catalyst in the field of documentary films . From September 2008 to April 2019 she taught at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . In 2014 the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg appointed the Grimme Prize winner to the advisory board of the university and the Freiburg University College.

Life and study

Sabine Rollberg grew up in an artistic family in Freiburg, as the daughter of the actor Will Rollberg (born May 12, 1916 in Halle an der Saale ; † August 28, 2009 in Freiburg) and the solo dancer Gyp Schlicht Rollberg (born December 2, 1917 in Chemnitz , née Gerda Ursula Elisabeth Schlicht; † November 22, 2014 in Freiburg). Even as a small child she stood on the boards that mean the world: from 1959 to 1969 as a child actress in all Christmas tales at the Freiburg Theater , later in larger roles at the Wallgraben Theater . During her school days, she also worked as a speaker for school radio and radio drama in Südwestfunk , Landesstudio Freiburg and as a freelancer for the Badische Zeitung.

After graduating from Freiburg's Berthold-Gymnasium , she studied German, history and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg (1973–1974 and 1976–1980) and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1974–1976). With her work On the Resurrection of the German Spirit An Analysis of the Feature Pages of the Neue Zeitung 1945–1949 , she earned her doctorate in 1980. phil. From 1980 to 1982 she did a traineeship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

Rollberg has a daughter and lives in Freiburg.

Television editor

Since 1982 Sabine Rollberg has worked as an editor for various program groups on WDR television. Until 1984 she was responsible for Weltspiegel , ARD focal point , for the concept and editing of Kulturweltspiegel and Kinderweltspiegel in the international program group and moderated the international show Treffpunkt Third World . From 1984 to 1986 she was the editor in the Culture and Science program area, responsible for Kulturweltspiegel , Pacz & Co , current cultural reporting and major live revue programs such as May Revue , All Years Again , Father's Day Revue , New Year's Eve Revue . She also moderated the talk show People of Sender Free Berlin (SFB), broadcast from Café Kranzler in Berlin.

From 1989 to 1994 she worked as an ARD correspondent at the ARD studio abroad in Paris.

In 2001 she was denied the way to the top of Deutsche Welle . In the election as director, she was defeated by the SPD politician Erik Bettermann with 7 to 10 votes. As a pioneer of quality television, she remained true to her commitment to maintaining and distributing high-quality formats and products in the television and film sector.

Arte expert

When the Franco-German television channel Arte was founded on April 30, 1991 , Sabine Rollberg followed the culture and Europe-oriented program policy of this new two-country broadcaster with great interest and took over the management of Arte's editor- in- chief from 1994 to 1997 Arte headquarters in Strasbourg.

The new live news magazine 7 1/2 was created under her leadership . In doing so, she set a clear signal for the plurality of opinion and formation in a common Europe : “We are not just a cultural channel. Our second mainstay and our second major concern is Europe. (…) Our house is Europe today. Unfortunately, our program is not in line with the trend, because in all countries there is a tendency towards national egoism. Unfortunately, international issues are less valued, but we consciously swim against the current because Europe is close to our hearts. "

In 1999 she returned to Cologne (after two years of maternity leave in Moscow): as Arte representative at WDR and head of the ARTE / 3Sat editorial team at WDR. From October 2005 to the end of 2008 she was in charge of the cultural channels program group at WDR and helped set up the TV station Einsfestival . From 2008 to 2018 she was editor-in-chief at WDR / ARTE.

University professor

From September 2008 to April 2019 she was a professor at the Art Academy for Media Cologne .

As a visiting professor, she gave a lecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich in 2015, for example, as part of the series of lecture series “Social Innovation” on the subject of “The future of documentary film in a changing media landscape”. She has been a member of the University Council of the University of Freiburg since 2014 and has been an advisory expert for Eurodoc since 2009 .

Rollberg repeatedly advocates "freedom in format television". At the most important documentary film festivals she makes fiery arguments for the importance of the documentary film genre and in autumn 2009 she received the Thick Fell Prize from the Documentary Film Working Group .

Awards

Many of the films that Sabine Rollberg has supervised have received national and international prizes; these range from the German LOLA Film Prize , formerly the Federal Film Prize , to the Adolf Grimme Prize , the European Film Prize , the Prix Italia and the Golden Gate Award , ( San Francisco ) to human rights awards ( Lost Children 2005, Hunt for Justice 2007 and The Green Wave / Iran Elections 2009) up to the journalist award for half moon over Cologne 2012.

A selection of award-winning films:

The Jazzman from the Gulag , Prix Italia and Emmy Award 1999

Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time / Im Fluss der Zeit, Bundesfilmpreis 2003 and Golden Gate Award 2001
Bellaria - as long as we live! , Prix Europa 2002 and The Silver Plaque For Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival 2002

Darwin's Nightmare , 2004 European Film Awards, Oscar nomination

Lost Children , German Film Award LOLA 2006, Best Documentary

Losers and Winners , Adolf Grimme Prize 2009

Dance dreams - young people dance KONTAKTHOF by Pina Bausch , award for the best documentary film at the Cinedans Film Festival 2010 Amsterdam

Burma VJ , Grand Prix FIFDH 2010, Festival du Film International sur les Droits Humains, Geneva and Grand Prix, International Human Rights Film Festival, Paris , Oscar nomination

The Green Wave , Adolf Grimme Prize 2010 in the category of culture and information

Gerhard Richter - Painting , German Film Award LOLA 2012, Best Documentary

Miles & War , Best Documentary Feature, Berlin 2014, Gold Plaque Television Awards 2014, Chicago International Film Festival

Camp 14 - Total Control Zone , Grimmepreis 2015, Grand Prix FIFDH du meilleur documentaire de création, FIFDH Geneva 2013, Eurodok Award 2013, Oslo

Vita Activa: The Spirit on Hannah Arendt , Documentary Film Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2016
Divine situation , Grimmepreis 2016

The Other Side of Everything , main prize at the IDFA International Competition, Amsterdam 2017

Web links

Press

Elke Stein: Arte editor-in-chief Sabine Rollberg on the new news magazine 7 1/2: "Our house is called Europe" . In: Berliner Zeitung, January 29, 1996
Joachim Huber: Sabine Rollberg's fight for the documentary film . In: Tagesspiegel, Potsdamer Latest News, October 29, 2009
Hanna Obert: Remembering, forgetting or acting: human rights on television . In: WWW.menschenrechte-koeln.de
University of Freiburg: University Council has three new external members . In: Badische Zeitung. undated
Bülend Ürük: TV journalist Sabine Rollberg: University appoints WDR journalist to university council . In: kressnews, July 30, 2015
Philipp Jedicke: ARTE: the Franco-German adventure. In: Deutsche Welle online, April 29, 2016

Individual evidence

↑ http://angebote.badische-zeitung.de/trauer/trauerangebote-und-nachrechte/gyp-schlicht-rollberg

↑ http://library.fes.de/opac/id/228658

↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/kinderweltspiegel

↑ @ue, with material from ddp: No New German Wave with SPD politician Erik Bettermann. In: FAZ.net . May 10, 2001, accessed October 13, 2018 .

^ Hahn, Oliver: ARTE - The European Culture Channel: A television language in many languages Munich: R. Fischer 1997, ISBN 3-88927-213-4

↑ Oliver Hahn: Arte - the European cultural channel. Verlag Reinhard Fischer, 1997, ISBN 978-3-889-27213-3 , p. 291 ( limited preview in Google book search).

↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/arte-chefredakteurin-sabine-rollberg-ueber-das-neue-nachrichtenmagazin--7-1-2---unser-haus-heisst-europa--17205862

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