Maren Ade

Maren Ade ( born December 12, 1976 in Karlsruhe ) is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer, which is attributed to the Berlin school.

Life

The parents of Ade were teachers. Even as a teenager she experimented with the video camera and made ​​his first short films. From 1998 to 2004 she studied production and media business, and later film and television play at the University of Television and Film Munich. In 2001 she founded together with Janine Jackowski the film production company accomplices film. In 2003, she turned her graduation film The forest for the trees. Eva Lobau plays a young teacher who looks in vain for connection to the new teaching staff. The film won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the German Film Award. 2008 Ade turned with Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger the movie all others. In the film, she tells the story of a young couple in crisis. The film received the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Bear) at the Berlinale 2009. Birgit Minichmayr was awarded the prize for Best Actress.

Ade is a lecturer at the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. She is friends with the director Valeska Grisebach. She lives with the director Ulrich Köhler in Berlin.

Filmography

Director and Screenwriter

• 2000: Level 9 (Short Film )
• 2001: Vegas (Short Film )
• 2003: The Forest for the Trees
• 2009: All other

Production

• 2003: The Forest for the Trees, directed by Maren Ade
• 2009: All other, directed by Maren Ade
• 2011: Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler
• 2012: Tabu, Director: Miguel Gomes
• 2012: The Living, directed by Barbara Albert

Awards

• 2009: The Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) the International Film Festival for All others
• 2014: Berlin Art Prize in the field of Film and Media Arts.