Seraina Rohrer

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Seraina Rohrer (2014)

Seraina Rohrer (born December 19, 1977 in Männedorf ) is a Swiss film scholar.

Life and accomplishments

Rohrer studied film studies and journalism at the University of Zurich . She headed the press office of the Locarno Film Festival for several years and coordinated the launch of the national pilot project "Réseau Cinéma CH", a cooperation between Swiss technical colleges and universities in the field of film training. In addition, she was a member of the “Fiction” commission of the Zurich Film Foundation and wrote a dissertation on “Transnational Low-Budget Productions” at the University of Zurich and UCLA . She has worked as a curator and freelance journalist in Germany and abroad, including writing a monthly column for NZZ am Sonntag between 2012 and 2015 . She worked and lived for several years in Mexico and the USA and has written various texts on Latin American cinema, including the book "La India María: Mexploitation and the films of María Elena Velasco", which is the first work of the Mexican actor La India María lit up. Since 2011 she has directed the retrospective of Swiss film, the Solothurn Film Festival . After the festival founder Stephan Portmann and his successor Ivo Kummer, Seraina Rohrer is the first woman to be responsible for the program and organization of the Solothurn Film Festival . She is a board member in various foundations, u. a. the UBS Cultural Foundation and the Heritage Percentage Culture .

In April 2019 it was announced that she was leaving the Solothurn Film Festival and joining the Pro Helvetia cultural foundation as a member of the executive board , where she was to take over the management of the Innovation and Society division. At the beginning of August 2019, Anita Hugi took over the management of the Solothurn Film Festival.

Seraina Rohrer has a grown son.

Works

  • La India María: Mexploitation and the films of María Elena Velasco , monograph, University of Texas Press, Austin 2017.
  • Prologue: That is Switzerland too . In: Lutz, Philipp (Ed.): Neuland - Swiss Migration Policy in the 21st Century. Switzerland: Not only the Alps in sight. In: The power of pictures - the power of words. Documentary Film House, Stuttgart 2016, 2–9.
  • Mexicans renew Hollywood , in: Frame, 2016
  • How the film Machete and the rebel Robert Rodriguez construct an excessively delimited audience .
  • Revolution in 35 mm , in: Du Kulturmagazin , 804, March 2010, 74–79.
  • Stereotyping in the films of La India María
  • Neither from here nor from there. The USA-Mexico border, a popular location for films , in: Rosa, number 39, Fall 2009, 28–30.
  • Magical Realism in Film , in: Christen, Thomas; Blanchet, Robert (Ed.): Introduction to Film History. New Hollywood to Dogma 95 .
  • Reading Stop Aids Spots. What prevention short films can achieve , monograph

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.film.uzh.ch/seminar/mitarbeitende/seraina_rohrer.html ( Memento from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://netzwerk-cinema.ch/uploads/media/sda18_10_06.pdf
  3. ^ Seraina Rohrer: La India María: Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco . University of Texas Press, Sl 2017, ISBN 978-1-4773-1345-9 .
  4. ↑ Seraina Rohrer is the new head of the Solothurn Film Festival. Tages-Anzeiger, May 26, 2011
  5. ↑ Solothurn Film Festival: Seraina Rohrer changes to Pro Helvetia . Article dated April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ Anita Hugi becomes the new director of the Solothurn Film Festival . Article dated June 27, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ La India María. University of Texas Press, Austin 2017, accessed December 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Philipp Lutz (ed.): Neuland. Swiss Migration Policy in the 21st Century - NZZ Libro (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Mexicans Renew Hollywood Frame . In: Frame . ( frame.ch [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Seraina Rohrer: How the film Machete and the rebel Robert Rodriguez construct an excessively delimited audience . In: Figurations . tape 12 , no. 2 , 2011, ISSN  2194-363X , doi : 10.7788 / figurationen.2011.12.2.101 ( degruyter.com [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  11. ↑ DU804 - life! To die! In: DU - the culture magazine . ( du-magazin.com [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  12. ^ Seraina Rohrer: Stereotyping in the films of La India María . In: Journal of Latino / Latin American Studies . tape 3 , no. 3 , October 24, 2009, p. 54–68 , doi : 10.18085 / llas.3.3.u013g71801116802 ( jollas.org [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  13. ^ New Hollywood to Dogma 95 - Schüren Verlag. Retrieved December 28, 2017 (German).
  14. ↑ Reading Stop AIDS Spots. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rohrer, Seraina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss director of the Solothurn Film Festival
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Männedorf