Siegrun hunter

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Siegrun Jäger (* before 1950) is a German film editor . In her career from the mid-1960s to 2002, she was responsible for the film editing of over 50 productions. Your name appears in some opening and closing credits as Sigrun Jäger , Susi Jäger , Siegrun Uterhardt , Siegrun Jäger-Uterhardt or Siegrun Jäger-Amado .

life and work

Jäger is one of the most versatile cutters of her generation. Working equally for cinema and television, her life's work feature films includes almost all genres: drama , melodrama , comedy , love story , costume drama , adventure film , thriller , thriller , horror . She has also edited several documentaries . Her wide range is also shown by the fact that her filmography, in addition to numerous award-winning and artistically outstanding works, also includes notorious exploitation films such as Witches Tormented to the Blood (1970).

Jäger and the film director Peter Lilienthal have a close creative partnership with 14 films that lasted from 1967 to 2001. In 1980 she received the German Film Prize for best editing for Lilienthal's docu-drama Der Aufstand . She also worked repeatedly with the directors Wolf Gremm (5 films) and Norbert Kückelmann (6 films).

Siegrun Jager was also valued as a mentor during her career, who gave young beginners important experience - at a time when the path to the profession was almost exclusively through the practice as an assistant editor and not through a film school. Some of their assistants later became renowned editors themselves, such as B. Ursula Höf :

“In 1973 I came to Siegrun Jäger as an assistant. She had the reputation of being “special”, and worked repeatedly with Peter Lilienthal and the New German Film and its authors. We worked together for more than two years and she really helped me with the transition to editing. (...) At that time, an assistant mainly worked in the same editing room as the film editor and of course overheard all the discussions with the director, she was often the first audience and conversation partner. That was the training. From Susi Jäger I also learned the most important attitude towards work, the claim to always want the best, not to give up, but always to be open to all artistic means of expression. "

- Ursula Höf : Interview on the occasion of her honorary award at the Festival Filmplus 2016.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Film Prize, 1980 award winner. Accessed March 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Ursula Höf, Festival Filmplus 2016. Accessed on March 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Siegrun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jäger, Sigrun (alternative spelling); Uterhardt, Siegrun (first marriage); Jäger-Uterhardt, Siegrun (first marriage); Jäger-Amado, Siegrun (second marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1950