Sandra Schiessl

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Sandra Schießl (born November 30, 1971 in Herne ) is a German animation filmmaker and co-founder of the Hamburg animation studio TRIKK17 .

Life

Schiessl grew up in Bramsche . She studied fine art and sculpture in Bremen and Glasgow and finished her studies in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in sculpture. She then studied visual communication / animation at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . During her studies in 1999, she made the short film Great Emotions , which was shown at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and was awarded the Hanse Short . The film about a dough bunny who tragically falls in love with a dog lamp also won the gold plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival .

In 2000, Schießl first worked as an animator for Clayart and was involved in stop-motion commercials about sick penguins for the Stada company. At the end of 2000 she co-founded the animation studio TRIKK17 in Hamburg and became one of the studio's managing directors. She is mainly active here as a director and character designer. Their preferred type of animation is stop-motion animation .

Schießl worked with TRIKK on 17 trailers for the ARD sports show and the Marunde spots (2003/2004) and the short film Marundes Landleben (2003) for the NDR. She shot commercials, including a spot for the reintroduction of the Dolomiti ice cream, and with TRIKK17 she designed video clips for Sasha ( rooftop ) and Seeed ( Ding ).

In 2007 she directed the puppet film Tomte Tummetott and the Fox, based on Astrid Lindgren's books . The film received several prizes, including the Grand Prix Award of the 6th Animation Contest of Folktales and Fables in Hida-Takayama, Japan, and the Special Culture Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the Grimme Prize 2008 . For the cartoon Die Nacht des Elefanten , which Schießl created for the ZDF program Siebenstein and which was released in 2012, she won the Goldener Spatz for innovation at the children's film festival Goldener Spatz 2013 . In November 2014, the film was awarded the German Lola Short Film Prize in the "Animation" category.

Schiessl is the mother of two children. Since the mid-1990s she has played the violin in the reggae swing band The Wee Sma’s , with whom she also performs live.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Great feelings (short film)
  • 2004: Stars wanted
  • 2007: Tomte Tummetott and the Fox (short film)
  • 2012: Rosalie and Truffle (short film)
  • 2012: The Night of the Elephant (short film)

Awards

  • 1999: Hanse-Short of the Hamburg Short Film Festival for the best Hamburg film, for Great Emotions
  • 1999: Film-Komet, Hanoverian film festival “up-and-coming”, for big feelings
  • 2000: Golden Plaque, Chicago International Film Festival , for Great Feelings
  • 2004: Subsidy from the Hamburg film subsidy sought for stars
  • 2007: Grand Prix Award, 6th Animation Contest of Folktales and Fables in Hida-Takayama, Japan, for Tomte Tummetott and the Fox
  • 2008: Grimmepreis, special price for culture of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, for Tomte Tummetott and the fox
  • 2012: Subsidy for children's film funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Board of Trustees for Young German Films for Chika, the bitch in the ghetto
  • 2014: German Short Film Award for The Night of the Elephant
  • 2014: Nomination Friese Award, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, for The Night of the Elephant

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Björn Dieckmann: Bramscherin wins renowned short film award . noz.de, December 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ Biography of Sandra Schießl on up-and-coming.de
  3. ↑ Harald Tews: Yesterday's news, but really worthy of a prize. The finale of the short film festival . In: Die Welt , June 22, 1999, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Annegret Schirrmacher: Sniffing kneading birds from the East Harbor Antarctica. Frankfurt animation production company Clayart lets penguins with a cold waddle across the TV screen . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 8, 2000, p. 26.
  5. ↑ See winners of the Grimme Prize 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  6. ^ German short film award for "The Night of the Elephant" . presseportal.de, November 21, 2014.
  7. ↑ Holger True: From a human point of view: She already has an Oscar . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 4, 2008, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Hildegard Stausberg: Hamburg Film Funding awards almost 750,000 marks . In: Die Welt , March 2, 2001, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Schiessl, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animation filmmaker and co-founder of the Hamburg animation studio TRIKK17
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne