Simone Jung

Simone Jung (born April 26, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a German filmmaker and director specializing in documentary film .

Life

While studying German , philosophy and psychoanalysis at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , she gained her first journalistic experience, among others at the Jahreszeiten Verlag in Hamburg, at the Tele - FAZ in Frankfurt and in the culture department in the radio department of Hessischer Rundfunk . In the latter, she completed an editorial traineeship after completing her studies and then immediately worked in the field of television, politics and society. She has been working as a freelance director and writer since 1998. As part of a team of authors, she produced the first, longer documentary “Kaufhaus M. Schneider” (1999) about the decline of a traditional Frankfurt department store; reports about criminals and their relatives follow. Then she devotes herself to the topic of nature in the program “Der Wald”. Since there is nothing better for her than shooting in nature and possibly giving the viewer an awareness of its specialty, she deals with the topic several times. In 2003 her magazine article “The Man in the Trees” received the German Camera Prize in the report category .

In her documentaries about people, she is primarily interested in borderline experiences and taboos. She tells very empathetically about the lives of offenders, elderly people - also with dementia ("Butterbrötchen at half past four" 2005), singles in the big city ("Alone in the City - Singles and Solitude" 2005) or children with cancer (" Datz knows no fear ”2006). A portrait of the boxer Regina Halmich will start in the cinema in 2009 (" Queen in the Ring") ; For about five years she worked on the film portrait of the deaf protagonist Natalie, who accompanied her from the world of silence to the world of sound ("Natalie or the sound of silence" 2012). In addition, she wrote the book of the same name based on this.

She also realizes topics of political relevance, including her documentation about the circumstances of the death of Benno Ohnesorg who was shot from behind (Benno Ohnesorg - His Death and Our Life "2016) or the repeatedly bloody conflict over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (" Mysterious Places - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem "2018).

Movies

• 2020 "First story: Man against virus - from the Spanish flu to Corona" (ARD, 45 min.)
• 2019 "Heaven, Heart and Obstacles" (ZDF, 45 min.)
• 2018 “Mysterious Places - The Temple Mount in Jerusalem” (ARD, 45 min.); "68er - How the revolt began" (HR, 60 min.)
• 2017 "Benno Ohnesorg - His death and our life" (ARTE / HR, 60 min.)
• 2016 "Work was half the battle" (ARD, 60 min.)
• 2015 “Despite dementia” (BR, 45 min.); “The ear is a door” (BR, 45 min.); "The happiness of being a Frankfurter" (HR, 2 × 45 min.)
• 2013 “ The Hassia Story ” (HR, 45 min.); “Farewell to the Henninger Tower ” (HR, 30 min.); "Finally hearing - the new world of sounds" (HR, 30 min.)
• 2012 " Natalie - or the sound of silence " (ARTE, 90 min.)
• 2011 “ The Asbach Ancient History - The Spirit of Rüdesheim ” (HR, 45 min.); "The happiness of the housewife" (ARD, 2 × 45 min.)
• 2010 "In Flames - The Traces of Fire" (ARTE, 45 min.)
• 2009 “ Queen in the Ring ” (ARTE, 90 min.); "Natalie - My way out of the silence" (ARD, 45 min.); " SOS swine flu - nightmare or scare tactics? "(ARD, 45 min.)
• 2008 " La Gomera , mon Amour" (ARTE, 30 min.)
• 2007 " Very personal: Günther Maria Halmer " (ARD, 30 min.)
• 2006 “Datz knows no fear - children with cancer and their families” (ZDF, 30 min.); “A single never eats alone” (HR, 30 min.); "The pain came overnight - How rheumatism changes life" (ZDF, 30 min.)
• 2005 “Butterbrötchen at half past four” (ARD, 75 min.); The Reinhardswald (ARD, 45 min.); "Alone in the City - Singles and Solitude" (ZDF, 30 min.)
• 2004 “The only true Santa Claus” (ZDF, 30 min.); "The mussel pickers - In the fight for the diva of the surf" (ARTE, 45 min.)
• 2003 "The Man in the Trees" (HR, 30 min.)
• 2002 “The Soonwald” (HR, 30 min.); "Until the last shirt" (ZDF, 30 min.)
• 2001 “Jagdfieber” (HR, 30 min.); “The Forest” (HR, 4 parts, 30 min.); "Kinship liability - relatives of criminals" (HR, 30 min.)
• 2000 "More toughness in prison" (HR, 30 min.)
• 1999 " M. Schneider Department Store " (HR, 30 min.)

Books

• 2002: " The world is so small from above" , with Michael Herl , Axel Dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-933974-34-1
• 2014: " Natalie or The Sound of Silence" , Mabuse Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; extended new edition 2019: ISBN 978-3-86321-185-1

Awards

• 2014 Media Prize - Medicine Human Technology: 2nd place for " Finally hearing - The new world of sounds" ; hr television award: " Finally hearing - The new world of sound"
• 2008 Hessian film and cinema award for " Queen in the Ring"

Web links

• Queen in the Ring movie website