Solveig Klaßen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Solveig Klaßen (* 1969 in Heide / Holstein ) is a German screenwriter and director .

Life

After graduating from high school, Solveig Klaßen traveled through Africa and North America with the film poet Ted Joans . She lived in Paris and studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 1992 to 2000. Her graduation film was the feature documentary Out of Tibet . It premiered at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Joris Ivens Award . Other awards were the "Young Lion" - Bavarian Documentary Film Prize 2000 and the Prize of the Youth Jury at the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival.

From 2001 to 2003 Klaßen went to the Beijing Film Academy, China, with a DAAD scholarship for postgraduate studies. With Katharina Schneider-Roos she shot and produced the documentary My Camera Doesn't Lie about Chinese “underground” directors of the 6th generation, which premiered in the FORUM of the Berlinale 2003 and was shown at many festivals.

Since 2004, Klaßen has been working as an artistic and academic assistant at the Art Academy for Media Cologne in the field of film and television.

In addition, Klaßen has made other long documentaries.

Awards (selection)

  • 2000: Bavarian Documentary Film Award “The Young Lion” for Out of Tibet
  • 2000: Prize of the Youth Jury, Int. Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film for Beyond Tibet
  • 2000: HFF Potsdam sponsorship award

Filmography

  • 1994: Johanna, (short film, script and director)
  • 2000: Beyond Tibet (documentary, script and director)
  • 2001: My father, his family and I (documentary, script and director)
  • 2003: My Camera Doesn't Lie (documentary, script and director)
  • 2005: Silver Girls (five-part documentary series, coregie with Alice Agneskirchner)
  • 2008: Qi - on the trail of the Chinese healing arts (documentary, book and director)
  • 2011: Yoga! L'art du vivre (documentary, script, direction and editing)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 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. in the directors guide. In: regisseurinnen-guide.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regisseurinnen-guide.de
  2. ↑ "Study location" ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2012 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.dffb.de
  3. ↑ Website of the festival ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 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. In: idfa.nl. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.idfa.nl
  4. ^ Website of the Film Academy In: bfa.edu.cn.
  5. ↑ Proof of participation in the festival In: berlinale.de.
  6. ↑ Profile film college ( memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: khm.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.khm.de
personal data
SURNAME Klaßen, Solveig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Heide / Holstein , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany