Susann Schimk
Susann Schimk (* 1971 in Bautzen ) is a German film producer.
Life
Schimk grew up in a district of the small Saxon town of Elstra . Together with her twin sister Doreen, she was active as a handball player in her youth. After graduating from high school, Schimk completed a classical saxophone training at the conservatory. She then studied film and television production at the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television . During her studies she directed the production of several short films, which her fellow student Sebastian Winkels directed. In 2001 Schimk graduated with a diploma on the subject of profitability of graduation films.
Together with Jörg Trentmann, who also studied at the HFF, she founded the Berlin film production company credo: film GmbH in the same year. The company's focus is on the production of feature films and documentaries for television and cinema. The founding of credo: verleih GbR followed in 2005 and credo: international in 2012.
The first joint production by Schimk and Trentmann was the short documentary film Inside Outside Mongolia , which was made in 2001 in coproduction with the HFF “Konrad Wolf” and again with Winkels as director. The first full-length feature film they produced was the drama Wir , directed by Martin Gypkens . Other successful feature film productions by the producer duo were, among others, Frei nach Plan , What in the end counts , Jagdhunde and Westwind . The film Westwind , released in 2011, has autobiographical traits, as it is based on a true story in Schimk's life, whose twin sister fled to West Germany shortly before the fall of the Wall.
In 2007 she became a member of the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs and two years later of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy .
In 2016, Susann Schimk founded solo: film GmbH as a platform for individual films, original TV material and online formats.
Filmography
- 1997: You eat and spit out the package (short documentary film)
- 1998: Going for a swim (short film)
- 2000: Partie lento - A vinyl concert with works by JS Bach (short film)
- 2000: Hare and Hedgehog (short film)
- 2001: Inside outside Mongolia (short film)
- 2001: Upper room (short film)
- 2001: The Ministry for State Security - Everyday Life in an Authority (Documentary)
- 2002: Schneeweiss (short documentary film)
- 2003: We (feature film)
- 2003: Bandits (documentary)
- 2003: 7 Brothers (documentary)
- 2004: The Boxer (feature film)
- 2004: Falling Grace (short film)
- 2004: Best of the Wurst (short documentary film)
- 2004: BerlinBeirut (short documentary film)
- 2004: Berlin Backstage (short film)
- 2004: District of Illusions (TV documentary)
- 2005: Kombat Sixteen (feature film)
- 2005: The Irrational Remnant (documentary)
- 2005: Bollywood - India's sounding cinema (TV documentary)
- 2006: Trigger Tiger (feature film)
- 2006: Number One Street (TV Documentary)
- 2006: Room 4070 (documentary film)
- 2006: Valerie (feature film)
- 2007: What Counts in the End (feature film)
- 2007: Hounds (feature film)
- 2007: Silent Mail (short film)
- 2007: According to plan (feature film)
- 2007: L'Orfeo (TV movie)
- 2007: Generation Model (documentary)
- 2008: The Ice Bomb (feature film)
- 2008: The Encounter (short film)
- 2008: Torpedo (short film)
- 2008: The Maids (TV movie)
- 2009: My bird flies faster
- 2009: Ms. Senior Sweetheart (documentary)
- 2009: Rahel - A Prussian Affair (TV movie)
- 2010: The Berlin City Palace (TV documentary)
- 2011: Under Control (Documentary)
- 2011: The Friedrichstadt-Palast (TV documentary)
- 2011: The Princes - It Wasn't All Bad (TV Documentary)
- 2011: Westwind (feature film)
- 2012: Sometimes We Sit and Think, and Sometimes We Just Sit (short film)
- 2012: Indian Songs (TV documentary)
- 2012: After the fire (documentary)
- 2012: World Wide We (documentary)
- 2012: Denok & Gareng (documentary)
- 2012: Prora (TV documentary)
- 2013: Tadao Ando (TV documentary)
- 2014: Schönefeld Boulevard (feature film)
- 2014: Schmitke (documentary film)
- 2015: Offside (feature film)
- 2016: Meteor Street (feature film)
- 2016: Germany, your artist- Katrin Sass (TV documentary)
- 2016: Having a Cigarette with Álvaro Siza (documentary)
- 2017: The Villa Massimo (documentary)
- 2017: Mondays in Dresden (cinema documentary)
- 2017: The Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (TV documentary)
- 2018: Partisan (feature documentary)
- 2019: Talking Money (feature documentary)
- 2019: Berlin - Fateful Years of a City - The Years 1991 to 1999 (TV documentary series)
- 2020: Berlin - Fateful Years of a City - The Years 2000 to 2009 (TV documentary series)
Awards
- 2007: International Film Festival Shanghai , Golden Cup as “best film” for Frei according to plan
- 2008: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Art Festival, short film competition, main prize from the state capital Schwerin for The Encounter
- 2009: German Film Award / Best Children's Film for Was am Ende gehts
- 2016: Internship at the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo
Web links
- Susann Schimk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Susann Schimk at filmportal.de
- Biography at Credofilm
- Website of solo: Film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview
- ↑ Philip Pratt: Financing options for full-length graduation films at the German film schools HFF and DFF, Berlin 2007, p. 30.
- ↑ Credofilm ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2013 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.
- ↑ Interview with Susann and Doreen Schmink about Westwind
- ↑ Membership list of the German Film Academy ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 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.
- ↑ Blog. Retrieved March 19, 2018 (UK English).
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Susann Schimk. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.credofilm.de/en/meteorstrasse/
- ↑ http://www.solofilmproduktion.de/blog/having-a-cigarette-with-alvaro-siza
- ↑ German Film Awards
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Susann Schimk. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schimk, Susann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |