Silke Olthoff (born 28 June 1972) is a German

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

of feature films and documentaries.

Life and work

After studying philosophy and film studies in Bochum and London, Silke Olthoff started editing short films, television productions and feature films. Among other projects, she worked on two films by award-winning director Marvin Kren. For ''Schautag'', she received the German Cinematography Award for best editing in 2009. She also edited Kren's feature film debut ''Rammbock: Berlin Undead'', which won the Audience Award as "Best Medium-Length Film" at the 2010

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Film Festival in

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. The film subsequently screened at the 63rd

Locarno Film Festival The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...

and the

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in Graz, where it received an honorable mention for Best Editing. Olthoff then edited the feature film ''45 Minutes to Ramallah'' by German-Iranian film director Ali Samadi Ahadi. Olthoff has edited several documentaries for journalist Stephan Lamby, including 2018's ''Nervous Republic - One Year In Germany'', which won the

German Television Award The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999, by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, th ...

as best documentary. She also worked on the feature film ''Goliath96'' by director Marcus Richardt, which screened at the 2018

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and the 2019

Film Festival, as well as on the short film ''Kippa'' (2019), which won the European Civis Media Prize. In 2019, Olthoff edited the feature film ''Sleep'' by director Michael Venus, which premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the

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2020 and was selected for the New Directors Competition at the

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in 2020. Olthoff lives in Hamburg.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Olthoff, Silke German film editors German women film editors 1972 births Living people