Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Beate Mainka Jellinghaus ( born July 27, 1936 in Vogt village in Opole ) is a German film editor.
Life
The daughter of the bank officials Mainka Georg and his wife Hildegard, nee Farbowski lived since fleeing from their homeland in 1945 with their parents in Ansbach. From 1946 to 1951 she received ballet lessons and attended by the average maturity in 1952 a private film school in Wiesbaden, where she was trained as a film editor.
She practiced five months in a lab and started as an assistant editor in the production of short documentaries. Since 1955, she lived in Munich, where she was involved in the Bavaria Film as a second assistant film editor Anna Höllering on several feature films. Oskar Werner's only film director ( under the pseudonym " Erasmus Nothnagel " ), television production, a certain Judas, came in 1958 for her first work as a responsible master cutter.
In 1959 she met Edgar Reitz know for whom they worked several early short documentaries. Reitz she conveyed to Alexander Kluge, with whom she worked together for years and significant films of the New German Cinema as Yesterday Girl and The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed realized. She participated About the film section also regularly also to the overall design of the films.
At the Ulm School of Design, she supported students and undergraduate students in the film assembly. When the phase of the New German Cinema came to an end, she withdrew from lack of interest in other film projects in the private life.