Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author.
Biography
Born in
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
, Dörrie completed her secondary education there in 1973. The same year, she began a two-year attendance in film studies in the drama department of the
University of the Pacific in
Stockton, California
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. She then studied at the
New School of Social Research
The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. ...
in New York. She worked odd jobs in cafés and as a film presenter in New York's
Goethe-Institut.
In 1975, back in Germany, Dörrie began to study at the
University of Television and Film Munich
The University of Television and Film Munich (German: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, short: HFF Munich) is a publicly funded film school in Munich, Germany. The school was established in 1966 by decree of the Bavarian government. T ...
. She wrote film reviews for the ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung'', where she was also assistant editor. Subsequently, Dörrie worked as a volunteer for various television stations, and filmed short documentaries. She has published several novels, short story collections and children's books, and also staged and directed a number of operas.
Dörrie is a member of the
PEN Centre Germany and the
German Film Academy. She was a member of the jury for the
2019 Prize of the National Gallery. Since 2019, she has been a member of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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.
Awards
*1999
Bavarian Film Awards, Best Screenplay
*1999
German Film Award in Gold for ''
Am I Beautiful?''
*2012
Bavarian Film Award
The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are th ...
, Best Director
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Bavarian Film Awards. Munich, Bavaria. Awards for 2012
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Filmography
*1983: ''Straight Through the Heart'' (''Mitten ins Herz'')
*1985: ' (''Im Innern des Wals'')
*1985: '' Men...'' (''Männer...'')
*1986: ' (''Paradies'')
*1988: '' Me and Him'' (''Ich und Er''), starring Griffin Dunne
Thomas Griffin Dunne (; born June 8, 1955) is an American actor, film producer, and film director. Dunne studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. He is known for portraying Jack Goodman in '' An Amer ...
, Ellen Greene, Kelly Bishop, Carey Lowell
Carey Lowell (born February 11, 1961) is an American actress and former model, best known as ADA Jamie Ross in ''Law & Order'' (1996–2001, 2022) and as Bond girl Pam Bouvier in the James Bond movie '' Licence to Kill'' (1989).
Early life ...
*1989: ' (''Geld'')
*1992: ' (''Happy Birthday, Türke!''), starring
*1994: ' (''Keiner liebt mich'')
*1998: '' – Augenblick'' (TV documentary series episode)
*1998: '' Am I Beautiful?'' (''Bin ich schön?''), starring Franka Potente, Senta Berger, Heike Makatsch, Iris Berben
*2000: ''Enlightenment Guaranteed
''Erleuchtung garantiert'' (''Enlightenment Guaranteed'') is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav ( Gustav-Peter Wöhler), who travel to Japan in order to find themselves. The two plan ...
'' (''Erleuchtung garantiert'')
*2002: '' Naked'' (''Nackt'')
*2005: ' (''Der Fischer und seine Frau'')
*2007: ', a documentary about Zen chef Edward Espe Brown
*2008: '' Cherry Blossoms'' (''Kirschblüten – Hanami'')
*2010: '' The Hairdresser'' (''Die Friseuse'')
*2012: ' (''Glück'')
*2014: ' (''Alles inklusive'')
*2016: '' Greetings from Fukushima''
*2019: '
Fiction
*''Liebe Schmerz und das ganze verdammte Zeug: Vier Geschichten'' (1987); Eng. tr. ''Love, Pain and the Whole Damn Thing: Four Stories'' (1989)
*''"Was wollen Sie von Mir?" und 15 andere Geschichten'' (1989); Eng. tr. ''What Do You Want From Me?'' (1993)
*''Der Mann meiner Träume'' (1991)
*''Für immer und ewig: eine Art Reigen'' (1991)
*''Bin ich schön? Erzählungen'' (1994)
References
Citations
Bibliography
*Breitenstein, Andreas. "Alptraum vom Traummann: Doris Dörries Erzählung ''Der Mann meiner Träume''." '' Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' (22 July 1991).
*Elss, Karin. "Doris Dörrie als Erzählerin." ''Saarbrücker Zeitung
The ' (''SZ'') is a daily (except Sundays) newspaper published in Saarland
The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German ...
'' (24 August 1989).
*Görtz, Franz Josef. "Beiläufige Tragödien: Geschichten von der Filmemacherin Doris Dörrie." '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (14 March 1989).
*Joglekar, Yogini. "Ethnic Noir in Post-Wall Germany: ''Happy Birthday, Türke!'' (Dörrie 1991)." ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' 24.2 (Winter 2006): 17–29.
*Jurczyk, Günther. "Brav Geschmollt: Doris Dörrie erzählt." '' Stuttgarter Zeitung'' (11 October 1989).
*Phillips, Klaus. "A Conversation with Doris Dörrie." In: ''Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author'', ed. Franz Birgel, Klaus Phillips and Christian-Albrecht Gollub. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004. pp. 1–16.
*Steuhl, Wolfgang. "Antonia und der Dreckspatz: Wenn ein Mannequin den Mann ihrer Träume findet." ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (13 April 1991).
*Utz, Richard. "Reflecting Love at Quite Its Natural Size: Doris Dörrie as a Writer." In: ''Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author'', ed. Franz Birgel, Klaus Phillips and Christian-Albrecht Gollub. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004. pp. 177–87.
External links
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Literature on Doris Dörrie
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German women film directors
1955 births
Living people
Film people from Hanover
University of the Pacific (United States) alumni
University of Television and Film Munich alumni
Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin