Hava Kohav Beller
Hava Kohav Beller (* in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer and director.
Life
Hava Beller Kohav grew up near Haifa in a kibbutz. Your native of Berlin mother read to her in childhood German fairy tales such as Struwwelpeter and Max and Moritz ago when young she was reading Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann. After studying music in Tel Aviv, she moved to New York, where she married, worked as Ballettchoreographin and actress, and between 1979 and 1981 graduated from film school. In the early 1980s, one of her friends married a German, she began with Germany and the resistance during the Third Reich to employ, and decided to make a Dokumantarfilm.
She worked for nine years at The Restless Conscience. During this time she interviewed witnesses of resistance, including Freya von Moltke, Axel von dem Bussche and Klaus von Dohnanyi. Caused difficulties financing; so they sold some paintings and worked as a ballet teacher and secretary, as they got as a freelance artist, no bank loans. Only later their work was supported by Foundation funds from the U.S. and Israel.
1992 was nominated for Best Documentary Oscar, The Restless Conscience. The following year, Beller received from the hands of Richard von Weizsäcker, the Federal Cross of Merit. 2002 was The Burning Wall, a documentary about the opposition in the German Democratic Republic. To this end she had consulted, among others, Wolf Biermann, Günter Grass and Egon Krenz. The film had its premiere at the International Film Festival in Berlin.