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PREHISTORIC MOTHERS

In production:

Documentary about the evolutionary origins of maternity

GREAT APES

Multiple Award Winning Science Documentary

"The broadcast is one of the best I've ever seen on TV about behavior." Hark Bohm

THE SILENT GLOW

The Award Winning Cinema Documentary is Available on DVD as VoD!

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About me

My work as an author, director and film producer is defined by the motto: "Pictures indicate the silence between words." With this in mind, I strive for imagery committed to people and aesthetics for my documentary projects, for which I am happy to use artistic means to make them metaphorically deeper.

I move in three thematic areas, which intersect in individual film projects:

1. contemporary history’s deep abrasions through the reconstruction of a person’s biography, which reflects historical events, the consequences of which extend into our time;
2. art history and contemporary history reflections based on the highly aesthetically-demanding filmic description of the history of the life and work of an artistically creative person, in whose biography aesthetic development trajectories focus on content-related and formal statements, which extend beyond the day;
3. philosophical reflections using the documentary and aesthetic treatment of a topic that is highly relevant to the self-image of the people of our time.

Since 1992
Freelance writer and director: TV and radio features; documentary films (WDR, ZDF, SWR, BR, Radio Bremen, FAZ-TV)
1992 - 1994
Trainee assistant director, ARTE documentary films
1992
Intern and freelancer at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Tele-FAZ)
1992
Graduation with Master of Arts
1986 - 1992
Masters degree at J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main:
German language and literature, philosophy, drama, film, and TV studies
1985 - 1986
Studies at J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: Geography
16.3.1966
Born in Frankfurt am Main

2021-2023
PREHISTORIC MOTHERS - the evolutionary origins of maternity
Documentary film, 52 Min,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2022-2023
„ORIGIN“
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 80 Min
Documentary film
2018-2021
Great Apes - A story of the feeling moral mind
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 58 Min
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2014-2018
The Silent Glow – Recovering the Present
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 86. min.
Dokumentarfilm / Kino
2014-2017
School of Mindfulness
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 34 min.
2015/2016
Hearing Voices
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2014/2015
Heroes of Tomorrow
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2013
My life without compromise
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 30 min.,
WDR / ARD
2012
Pilot of Dreams – The Films of Andrzej Wajda
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2010
Volker Sommer ­– I am an Ape
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 45 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2010
Diary of a Commander of Prisoners of War
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2007 / 2008
Blazing Feather. Discerning Heart. – Nan Cuz. A German-Indian Painter
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 45 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
2001/2002
Family secrets – the Tale of a Dangerous Liaison
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 63 min.,
co-produced by BR, HR, WDR
2000/2001
Cornfields and Floral Wreaths – Etzel the Organic Farmer
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR
1996
Being No one – The Self as a Motif and a Myth
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR
1995/1996
The Individual and Simulation – From the Soul to the Consciousness
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR

2017
The enemy within – coping with hearing voices
55 Min., WDR 5
2012
Pilot of Dreams – The Films of Andrzej Wajda
55 Min., WDR
2010
Between the lagoon and Cape Horn – the great odyssey of a small boy from East Prussia
60 Min., BR
2009
Diary of a Commander of Prisoners of War
60 Min., WDR 3
2008
Between inside and outside – From self-actualization and social involvement
25 Min., SWR2
2007
Blazing Feather. Discerning Heart. – Nan Cuz. A German-Indian Painter
60 Min., WDR 3
2006
Freed voices – former slaves tell their stories
25 Min., SWR2
2006
Wisdom – New insights about an old virtue
25 Min., SWR2
2006
Tattoo, Piercing, and Co. – Stories of pain, rituals, and identity
25 Min., SWR2

Awards