Silke Buhr

Silke Buhr (born October 26, 1966 in Löhne ) is a German production designer and film architect.

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter , Silke Buhr studied interior design at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and graduated with a degree in engineering. She then completed a postgraduate course in film and television scene design with Toni Lüdi at the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Munich University of Television and Film . She has been working as a production designer since 1997. In addition to this, she teaches as a lecturer in the scenography costume course at the University of Hanover . At the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy she works as a lecturer in the production design course.

For the film The Lives of Others she received the 2006 German Film Prize in the category “Best Set Design”. She was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2010 and the German Film Prize 2011 for the production design in Chris Kraus ' feature film Poll . In 2015 she received her third German Film Award in the “Best Production Design” category for the movie Who Am I - No System Is Safe . In 2020 she received another award for her work on Burhan Qurbani's film Berlin Alexanderplatz .

Buhr is a member of the German Film Academy . In 2019 she received an invitation to membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscar .

cinemamovies

Television films

Peter Hartig: Portfolio | Silke Buhr. Scenes. In: cinearte XL. The magazine for filmmakers No. 004, April 2007, pp. 54–70.
Kristina Jaspers: The visionary. Silke Buhr. In: Daniela Sannwald, Christina Tilmann (ed.): The women of Babelsberg. Life pictures from 100 years of film history . edition ebersbach, Berlin 2012, pp. 120-125, ISBN 978-3-86915-059-8 .
Kristina Jaspers: Subtly tempered rooms. The production designer Silke Buhr. In: film-dienst 3/2012, pp. 6–9, ISSN 0720-0781 .

Silke Buhr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Silke Buhr at filmportal.de
Silke Buhr in the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers V.

↑ "Poll": Love in times of decline. In: HAZ , February 2, 2011
↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
↑ Silke Buhr. German Film Academy , accessed on July 3, 2019 .
^ Matt Donnelly, Marc Malkin: Academy Reaches Gender Parity in 2019 New Member Invitations. In: Variety . July 1, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Buhr, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German production designer and film architect
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wages