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Helma Sanders-Brahms
Sanders Brahms, Helma (Alternative), Sanders, Helma (Birth name)
Director, filmmaker, screenwriter, Producer
* 20.11.1940
† 27.05.2014 in Berlin
Sanders-Brahms began her career as a television announcer in the 1960s. After gaining work experience with the Italian directors Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, she realized her first film on her own in 1969. In her work, Sanders-Brahms addresses socially relevant topics. She was considered one of the most important women directors in young German film.
About the Estate
Finding Aid (PDF)The holdings came into the Deutsche Kinemathek through Helma Sanders-Brahms in 2010. A later addition followed in 2016, two years after her death. Among other items, it contained production records, correspondence, and the script for “Anna Amalia”, her last film project, which had already received funding but could no longer be realized.
Sketches, notebooks, production records and correspondence in the collection offer extensive insights into the many facets of her film work spanning more than 40 years. It also includes more than 250 scripts, many of which remained unrealized, as well as her poems and essays. The estate also contains 65 batches of photographs. Particularly impressive are research materials about the films, such as ‘Die Berührte’ (1980) and ‘Mein Herz – Niemandem!’ (1997). Costume designs for the latter are among the holdings.
Quantitatively quite exceptional are materials related to the film ‘Geliebte Clara’ (2008), with 15 different scripts in multiple versions in German, English and French. Records about Sanders-Brahms’ non-cinematic engagement, which include her efforts to save the Babelsberg Filmstudios following Geman reunification, enhance the collection. (Text: Inga Degenhard)
- Content
- Script, Print, Photography, Paper documents
- Description
- Approximate 22 Shelf metres
- Inv. No.
- 201001
- Credit Line
- Helma-Sanders-Brahms-Archiv, Deutsche Kinemathek
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Helke Sander
* 1937
Script, Print, Film, Photography, Small object, Literature, Paper documents
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Eva Mattes
* 1954
Script
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Christiane Grün
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cgruen@deutsche-kinemathek.deGunnar Gutschmidt
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ggutschmidt@deutsche-kinemathek.de