Susanne Heinrich (writer)

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Susanne Heinrich (born October 13, 1985 in Oschatz near Leipzig ) is a German writer and film director . With her feature film debut The Melancholische Mädchen she won the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Fiction Film and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2019 Max Ophüls Film Festival .

life and work

Susanne Heinrich began writing literary texts while she was still in school at the Humboldt Gymnasium in Leipzig . From 2004 she studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, but dropped out after the intermediate examination. Between 2005 and 2011 she published four books: two novels and two volumes of short stories. In 2005 she took part in the competition for the Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt . In 2010 she won a residency scholarship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and in 2011 she received a scholarship for Villa Massimo in Rome .

Since 2012 she has been studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) . Her first full-length feature film, Das melancholische Mädchen , was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize at the Saarbrücken competition in 2019 . The jury's justification states that the film is “a cinematic work of art that tells in a lively and elegant tone, with precise analytical words and in pastel-colored, meticulously designed images, the odyssey of a young woman in the midst of postmodern culture and identity. With ironic accuracy and humorous repartee, the film hits the nail on the head non-stop in its translation of feminist theories. A film that finally succeeds in finding a language for a whole generation of sad girls and has basically already rightfully awarded itself its prize in the film. ”The film also won the prize of the ecumenical jury. Their jury statement reads as follows: “Infinitely funny and at the same time deadly sad, pictures composed down to the last detail, poetic dialogues in which relationships with lifestyle are chosen. The gaze for the other remains in the void. The idiosyncratic, consistent imagery opens up gaps and spaces for further thinking. Social conditions are relentlessly and precisely presented, questioned and passed on to the audience. A young woman becomes the symptom carrier of a society that does not keep its promises of happiness. "

Susanne Heinrich, who also appears as the singer in the band “watching me fall”, is divorced and lives in Berlin .

Reception of their books

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Sebastian Handke described Susanne Heinrich's collected stories In the Colors of the Night (2005) as “the usual prose of feeling with a tendency to autism”, while Sebastian Domsch attested to transforming “every scene” into a “little festival of poetry” ( taz ). Heinrich's novel Die Andere (2007) critically described Katharina Döbler as a “disparate document of a creative self-discovery” ( Die Zeit ), while Sabine Peters said the book was related to the “ Lore novel ” - “including involuntary comedy and kitsch” ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) . In Heinrich's third book So, now we're all happy (2009), Christoph Schröder criticized a “stencil-like figure drawing” in the SZ, while Marius Meller was bothered by “superficial reflections”.

Awards

literature

Publications in literary magazines

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Heinrich. In: literary port . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (Susanne Heinrich short biography on Literaturport).
  2. ↑ A young love story. In: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2005 . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (participation of Susanne Heinrich in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2005 and reviews of her contribution).
  3. ↑ Villa Aurora grant recipients | 2010. Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House , accessed January 8, 2019 (Residence grant at Villa Aurora 2010).
  4. ↑ Scholarship holders - Casa Baldi 2011. Villa Massimo , accessed on January 8, 2019 (residence scholarship in Villa Massimo 2011).
  5. ↑ What will. Retrieved January 8, 2019 (on our own website).
  6. ↑ a b The melancholy girl. In: Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis . 2019, accessed on January 8, 2019 (premiere of her film Das melancholische Mädchen , synopsis of the same).
  7. ↑ “The melancholy girl” wins twice at the Max Ophüls Festival. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . January 19, 2019, accessed January 20, 2019 (Double Prize Report).
  8. ^ The winners 2019. In: Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis . 2019, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Watching me fall. myspace , archived from the original on May 29, 2011 ; accessed on May 13, 2009 (volume at myspace).
  10. ↑ Susanne Heinrich: In the colors of the night. In: The pearl diver . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (reviews of the work).
  11. ↑ Susanne Heinrich: The other. In: The pearl diver . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (reviews of the work).
  12. ↑ Susanne Heinrich: So, now we're all happy. In: The pearl diver . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (reviews of the work).
  13. ↑ The question of who starts. In: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2005 . Retrieved January 8, 2019 (text of the competition entry).
  14. ^ The winners of the 16th Neisse Film Festival at a glance . Article dated May 11, 2019, accessed May 12, 2019.
  15. ↑ Susanne Heinrich honored at the Neisse Film Festival . Retrieved May 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz near Leipzig