Claudia von Alemann
Claudia von Alemann ( born March 23, 1943 at Seebach, Thuringia ) is a German filmmaker.
Claudia von Alemann grew from 1949 in Krefeld. After graduation in 1963, she studied at the Free University in Berlin until 1964, sociology and art history, from 1964 to 1968 at the Ulm School of Design at the Institute of filmmaking.
After first film experiments during her studies she was a freelancer for various television stations, particularly in the Hessischer Rundfunk and the WDR. In May 1968, she went to Paris, where she was involved in film collectives. In her television documentary This is just the beginning - the fight goes on, she reported it. In 1973 she organized with Helke Sander, the first International Women's Film Festival in West Berlin.
After several short films and documentaries on political issues, movie themes and the issue of women's emancipation, she turned from 1978 to 1980 the feature film The trip to Lyon on Flora Tristan, a French women's rights activist of the 19th century. In 1981 she created for ZDF surrealist film video The woman. As part of the series The little teleplay in 1983, she directed Nebelland, a film about the tragic love story between a German and an American.
1977 Claudia von Alemann was a lecturer in film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, from 1982 to 2006 she was a professor of film at the Fachhochschule Dortmund.
She has a daughter (born 1978 ) and is married to the Cuban director Fernando Pérez.