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S.01_CoverGFQ3_2016_end_Layout 1 20.07.16 17:36 Seite 1 GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY THE SUMMER ISSUE DIRECTORS Johannes Naber & Maria Schrader PRODUCER Corinna Mehner of blue eyes Fiction ACTRESS Paula Beer ISSUE 3-2016 S.02_Contents_U2_GFQ_3_2016_Layout 1 20.07.16 15:28 Seite 1 CONTENTS GFQ 3-2016 18 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 29 S.03_CONTENTS_GFQ3_2016.qxp_Layout 1 20.07.16 15:31 Seite 1 GFQ 3-2016 CONTENTS IN T H I S I S S U E PORTRAITS NEW SHORTS “MAKE EVERY FILM AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST” EINE VILLA MIT PINIEN A portrait of director Johannes Naber ........................................... 4 THE PINETREE VILLA Jan Koester .............................................. 29 WHEN REALITY BECOMES CINEMA DIE WEITE SUCHEN A portrait of director Maria Schrader .............................................. 6 WIDER HORIZONS Falk Schuster ................................................... 29 INSPIRING IMAGINATION A portrait of blue eyes Fiction ......................................................... 8 UPCOMING FILMS THE FULL MEASURE ALPENBRENNEN A portrait of actress Paula Beer ................................................... 10 Tobias Wiemann ............................................................................. 31 BABYLON BERLIN NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 12 Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten, Achim von Borries ................ 31 FÜHLEN SIE SICH MANCHMAL AUSGEBRANNT UND LEER? NEW FEATURES Lola Randl ....................................................................................... 31 ANISHOARA HAPPY BURNOUT Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu ................................................................... 18 André Erkau ..................................................................................... 32 DAS DUNKLE HAUS AM RANDE DES WALDES DIE KLEINE HEXE THE DARK HOUSE BY THE WOODS Johannes Leistner ................ 19 Mike Schaerer .................................................................................. 32 GLEISSENDES GLÜCK LEANDERS LETZTE REISE ORIGINAL BLISS Sven Taddicken ................................................... 20 Nick Baker-Monteys ....................................................................... 32 HANNAS SCHLAFENDE HUNDE MONSTER HANNA’S SLEEPING DOGS Andreas Gruber ................................. 21 Kerstin Polte .................................................................................. 33 DAS KALTE HERZ ONKEL WANJA HEART OF STONE Johannes Naber .............................................. 22 Anna Martinetz ................................................................................ 33 LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ IN LOVE WITH LOU RETURN TO MONTAUK – A PHILOSOPHER’S LIFE Cordula Kablitz-Post ............................ 23 Volker Schlöndorff ........................................................................... 33 MARIJA SOMMERFEST Michael Koch .................................................................................... 24 Sönke Wortmann ........................................................................... 34 PAULA TAUSEND ARTEN, DEN REGEN ZU BESCHREIBEN Christian Schwochow ..................................................................... 25 Isabel Prahl .................................................................................... 34 VOR DER MORGENRÖTE WERK OHNE AUTOR STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ............................................... 34 Maria Schrader .............................................................................. 26 NEW DOCUMENTARIES Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 37 PETER HANDKE – BIN IM WALD. KANN SEIN, DASS ICH MICH Film Exporters ................................................................................. 38 VERSPÄTE … PETER HANDKE – IN THE WOODS, MIGHT BE LATE Corinna Belz .................................................................................. 27 Imprint .............................................................................................. 39 POWER TO CHANGE Carl-A. Fechner ................................................................................ 27 UMARMUNG – TANGO IM SCHWARZWALD EMBRACE – TANGO IN THE BLACK FOREST Irene Schüller ................................................................................. 28 WHEN I DANCE Daniela Lucato .................................................................................. 28 3 S.04-05_PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR JOHANNES NABER.qxp_Layout 1 20.07.16 15:33 Seite 1 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2016 Johannes Naber (photo © Mark de Longueville) © Mark de (photo Johannes Naber “MAKE EVERY FILM AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST” A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR JOHANNES NABER ohannes Naber has a recipe for had a striking moustache like those worn by Johannes Naber began at the Filmakademie success: he is a person who thinks past generations. That looked strange, and I Baden-Württemberg, initially in the screen- politically, and a director with some- thought: surely he is an Albanian himself, tell - play writing course, but ending up in the field Jthing to say. He formulates a theory, ing his own story in this film. Naber put me of documentary film directing, where he poses intelligent questions, and opens up straight on that, saying that he was born in graduated in 1999 with the 60-minute film people’s eyes. No insights or ideas are too Baden-Baden but finds it interesting that POPSTAR. Even at that time, Naber was set - crazy for him to turn into a good film – there many Germans now believe he has Albanian ting his own course: everything in his film just needs to be a clever idea behind it. roots. The Albanians, for their part, had taken about a girl band and a singer-songwriter him for a Turk, probably because of the from Hamburg centered on the question of I met Johannes Naber for the first time on the moustache, as well. Subsequently, the film compromises that have to be accepted in stage of the Berlinale in 2011, at the pre - was received with great enthusiasm by many order to become a successful artist. Working sentation in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino festival-goers all over the world, winning the without compromise is a luxury not everyone of the Max Ophüls Prize winner, which he Special Jury Award in Moscow, and enjoying can afford. So that Johannes Naber can afford had just won for his feature film debut THE great success in Albanian cinemas. Over- this luxury, he has been working as a gaffer ALBANIAN. He was self-confident in discus- night, Johannes Naber’s name was added to for other projects (e.g. JACK by Edward sion with the audience and astonishingly the list of “people to watch”. Berger or THE CULPABLE by Gerd Schneider) well-dressed for a young filmmaker. He also and so procuring a financial basis which 4 S.04-05_PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR JOHANNES NABER.qxp_Layout 1 20.07.16 15:33 Seite 2 GFQ 3-2016 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT allows him more freedom in his work as a follow the motto: “Make every film as if it were director. “Non-conformism is actually the your last.” aim,” Naber says with an arch smile, and tells me how Laurens Straub once said to him that Johannes Naber enters into temporary alli- now he had succeeded; he was only mak ing ances for this, re-forging them for every new “consensus-free” films these days. Naber project rather than backing a fixed network. likes that – for him, it’s what it’s all about. The idea of a machine that the same old people keep putting money and ideas into, When he and his sister Milena Maitz, pro - and good films then come out at the bottom ducer and managing director of studio.tv.film, – it doesn’t work for Naber. “I have respect for began to work on his second full-length networks like that, but it is the wrong ap- feature AGE OF CANNIBALS, they also proach for me. I need to construct a new thought: now we are making a film that will machine for every project. That’s my insight meet with absolutely no consensus. It felt that gained from the past.” way above all when they took the project into the funding phase: a lot of convincing had to Now we are eagerly anticipating Naber’s new be done. “I started out from the fixed assump- film, HEART OF STONE with Frederick Lau tion, OK, it will all be over after this film be- and Henriette Confurius in the leading roles cause it’s just so far out … And as things – a fairy-tale film for adults, a romantic love turned out, it’s not far out at all, people think story. Naber himself describes it as “a mix- it’s super. Recently AGE OF CANNIBALS was ture of Russian fairy-tale film and GAME OF on the cover of Stern-TV magazine, so the film THRONES, an opulent work, not a respectable has definitely arrived in the mainstream,” German fairy-tale, not historical realism, but Naber jokes in retrospect. At the award cer - genre and cliché with an anti-materialistic emony for the German Film Award 2015, the message, cinema of the best standard.” It is grotesque story of corporate consultants Johannes Naber’s third feature film and at rightly won the bronze Lola in the category the same time, his third film telling of money Best Feature Film, and screenplay writer and its negative effects on people. That is ob- Stefan Weigl received the Lola for the Best viously Naber’s theme – money as excess, and Screenplay. how it brings evil into the world. HEART OF STONE will be launched in German cinemas In reference to a Fassbinder quotation, Naber this autumn. put the label “films not bombs” on his earlier works, but he no longer uses it that way