Ursula Höf

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Ursula Höf at the German Television Award 2012 , where the film she edited The End of a Night was awarded as the best feature film.

Ursula Höf is a German film editor and lecturer . Her nickname Olla Höf is used in the opening and closing credits of some of her films .

life and work

Ursula Höf grew up in Hessen. In 1966 she graduated from high school in Giessen . According to her own statements, she comes from a socialist family.

From 1966 to 1970 she studied English and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin , but then did an internship in Renate Willeg's editing room , also in Berlin. In 1973 she became Siegrun Jäger's assistant . She has been working as a freelance editor since 1975.

Höf was responsible for editing over 70 full-length feature films and documentaries , including numerous feature films. Most often she worked with the directors Markus Imboden (20 films) and Rolf Schübel (10 films). They have other creative partnerships with Helke Sander , Kai Wessel , Heidi Specogna and Matti Geschonneck .

With the feature film A Song of Love and Death - Gloomy Sunday , Höf was nominated for the German Camera Prize (Best Editing of the Cinema) in 2000. The documentary The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez earned her a 2007 nomination for the editing prize at the Filmplus film festival in Cologne. In 2016 she was awarded the honorary prize for her life's work at this festival.

In addition to her work as an editor, Ursula Höf has taught film editing as a lecturer and supervised student film projects, among others at the International Film School Cologne (ifs) , the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and the HfbK Hamburg .

Ursula Höf is a member of the German Film Academy and of the Federal Association of Film Editing Editor eV (BFS) . She lives in Hamburg .

Filmography

Where no individual proof is given, the sources for the filmography are: Filmportal, Filmdienst, German Television Award 2012, BFS-Profil, Fernsehserien.de - each checked with IMDb. The dates of the sources are adjusted to the year of publication.

Feature films as editor

Films with a length of 65 minutes or more. Unless otherwise stated, it is a television fiction film.

Shorter formats as editor (selection)

Films and series episodes with a length of less than 65 minutes.

  • 1980–1982 News from Uhlenbusch (TV series, 8 episodes of 25 minutes each) - Director: Thomas Draeger
  • 1981: I German Authority (short documentary, 23 min.) - Directors: Ezra Gerhardt, Alf Böhmert
  • 1981: Recycling (short documentary, 12 min.) - Director: Heiko von Swieykowski
  • 1982: Berliner Stadtbahnbilder (cinema documentary, 60 min.) - Director: Alfred Behrens
  • 1983: A modest proposal (short fiction film, 15 min.) - Director: Alf Böhmert
  • 1983: Der Träumer (short feature film, 17 min.) - Director: Hartmann Schmige
  • 1983: To death - hurray! German Youth Before Langemarck 1914 (TV feature film, 55 min.) - Director: Helmut Kopetzky
  • 1984: Gleissprung (short feature film, 13 min.) Director: Alf Böhmert
  • 1985: No. 1 - From reports of the security and patrol services (short feature film, 10 min.) - Director: Helke Sander
  • 1985: Die Kautschukdame (short documentary, 14 min.) - Director: Antonia Lerch
  • 1985: Berliner Weisse mit Schuß (TV series, 1 episode, 50 min.) - Director: Wilfried Dotzel
  • 1986: The catalog (documentary, 45 min.) - Director: Detlef Gumm, Hans-Georg Ullrich
  • 1986: No. 8 - From reports by the security and patrol services (short fiction film, 10 min.) - Director: Helke Sander
  • 1987: Unheard of: The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to today (TV documentary series):
    • Part 1: The next century will be ours 1830–1848 (documentary feature film, 45 min.) - Director: Claudia von Alemann
    • Part 2: We'd rather fly than crawl 1848–1860 (documentary film, 45 min.) - Director: Claudia von Alemann
  • 1992: Rendezvous of Friends (feature documentary, 60 min.) Director: Maria Hemmleb, Christian Bau
  • 2000: Schmidt is cheaper (short feature film, 9 min.) - Director: Berndt List
  • 2002: Sisters in Life (documentary, 59 min.) - Director: Wilfried Hauke
  • 2003: Saba Meersburg (short animation film, 12 min.) - Director: Franz Winzentsen
  • 2004: A day with consequences - Anna Lindh and her murderer (documentary, 52 min.) - Director: Joakim Demmer
  • 2005: People in the Sea (TV documentary series, 30 min.) - Director: Wilfried Hauke
  • 2013: The Conference or The Back of the Moon (short animation film, 6 min.) - Director: Franz Winzentsen

Assistant editing

Awards

literature

  • Ursula Höf: Handbook of film montage . Ed .: Hans Beller. 5th edition. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2005, ISBN 978-3-89669-689-2 , chapter: Workshop notes from the cutting room , p. 114-122 .
  • Ursula Höf: Confessions of film editing . Ed .: Béatrice Ottersbach and Thomas Schadt . 1st edition. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-86764-138-8 , chapter: The right job , p. 140-155 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography and filmography. Film portal , accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d short biography and filmography. German Television Award , 2012, accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Emotion and intellect. An interview with Ursula Höf, the winner of the Geißendörfer Ehrenpreis Schnitt 2016. Werner Busch, Festival Filmplus , 2016, accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Geißendörfer Ehrenpreis Schnitt 2016. Festival Filmplus , 2016, accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ursula Höf member page. German Film Academy , accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Profile and Filmography. Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor eV (BFS) , accessed on June 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ filmography. Film service , accessed June 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ filmography. Fernsehserien.de , accessed on June 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ filmography. IMDb , accessed June 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Film: No. 1 - From Reports (1985). helke-sander.de, accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  11. ^ Film: The Catalog (1986). Bundesplatz-Kino Berlin, 2017, accessed on June 17, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Film: No. 8 - From Reports (1986). helke-sander.de, accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  13. ^ Film series: Unheard - The history of the German women's movement from 1830 to today. Norbert Korfmacher, April 27, 2004, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Film series: Unheard of - Part 1: The next century will be ours 1830–1948. Spinnboden , accessed June 17, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Film series: Unheard of - Part 2: We'd rather fly than crawl 1848–1860. Spinnboden, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  16. ^ Film: Sisters in Life (2002). Nordic Film Days Lübeck , 2002, accessed on June 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hof, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hof, Olla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1950