Helma Sanders-Brahms

Helma Sanders- Brahms ( born November 20, 1940 in Emden, Ostfriesland ) is a German film director.

Life

After school she studied German and English literature in Cologne, an intern in radio, television announcer and was working as a fashion model. During a stay in Italy she met in 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Corbucci know and worked with them. Since 1969 she hides its own often highly autobiographical films, wrote screenplays and produced almost all many of their films themselves.

Her first films dealt critically with the world of work and the status of women in West Germany. Under the cobblestones, the beach is became a central film of the German women's movement and the '68 movement. Especially with Germany, Pale Mother, she was one of the major, internationally acclaimed directors in Germany. In addition to feature films, she shot several documentaries and wrote radio plays.

Her films have won numerous film festival awards, and she is an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Helma Sanders- Brahms is a Urururgroßnichte of the famous composer Johannes Brahms ( 1833-1897 ).

Filmography

Feature and television films

Documentary

Radio plays

• Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler, Rowohlt Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-499-22535-2
• Germany, Pale Mother. Film narrative, rororo new woman, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-14453-0