Sabine Derflinger

Last updated
Sabine Derflinger
Grimmepreis 2014 028.jpg
Sabine Derflinger (left) with Adele Heuhauser and Harald Krassnitzer at the Grimme-Awards 2014
Born1963
NationalityAustrian
OccupationFilm director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1991–present

Sabine Derflinger (born 1963 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter, producer and dramaturgical consultant. She lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. Many of her films have won several awards, notably Geraubte Kindheit (Stolen Childhood), Vollgas (Step on it), Kleine Schwester (Little Sister), 42plus and Tag und Nacht (Day and Night). She is also well known for directing a number of films in the cult series Tatort .

Contents

She has been celebrated as an Austrian pioneer in campaigning for more visibility for women in directing of films. [1] In 2012, she was awarded the Viennese Women's Prize for her work. [2]

Career

In 1991, Sabine Derflinger began her studies at the Filmacademy Vienna (special fields of script and dramaturgy), after having already worked several years in the film business as a director’s and production assistant. In 1996 she successfully finished her studies with her thesis "Movie narratives between Epic & Drama".

Sabine Derflinger is known for several feature and documentary films, many of which have won awards. Furthermore, she is the first woman to have directed an Austrian chapter of the German/Austrian/Swiss cult crime series Tatort . [3] By now she has directed two Austrian chapters (Falsch verpackt (False Labelling); Angezählt (Down for the Count)) and one German Tatort chapter (Borowski und das Meer (Borowski and the Sea)). Tatort Angezählt, which is set in Vienna's world of prostitutes and pimps, initiated a broad discussion about prostitution in the Austrian and German media. Paul Kemp - Alles kein Problem (Paul Kemp - No problem at all) and Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall (Four Women and a Funeral) are further series that Sabine Derflinger has directed for the Austrian broadcaster ORF. Her film Tag und Nacht (Day and Night) captured great media attention. [4] [5] [6] Anna Red, that played lead role won "Best Actress" during the New York Film Festival in 2011. Her colleague Magdalena Kronschläger was nominated for "Best Actress" during the Austrian Film Prize 2011.

In 2010, Sabine Derflinger founded her own production company called Derflinger Film. Since then she has produced the following movies: The Rounder Girls, Schnelles Geld (Easy Money), Eine von 8 (One out of 8) and What Remains. In 2013 Derflinger Film was hired as the service production for the Brazilian television network Globo TV, which shot several episodes of their telenovela Em Família in Vienna. The documentary Vom Umgang mit der Schuld (Dealing with guilt) is currently under production.

Filmography

Awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Simon (actress)</span> German actress (born 1976)

Maria Simon is a German actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fred Breinersdorfer</span>

Fred Breinersdorfer is a German screenwriter, producer and film director.

Rudolf Wessely was an Austrian actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jan Josef Liefers</span>

Jan Josef Liefers, is a German actor, producer, director and musician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friederike Mayröcker</span> Austrian writer (1924–2021)

Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gina Kaus</span> American novelist

Gina Kaus was an Austrian-American novelist and screenwriter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erni Mangold</span> Austrian actress

Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leopoldine Konstantin</span> Austrian actress

Leopoldine Konstantin was an Austrian actress. She played in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening (1907), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1907), A Winter's Tale (1908), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1910).

Michael Kehlmann was an Austrian television film director and theatre director, screenwriter and actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fritz Eckhardt</span> Austrian actor

Fritz Eckhardt was an Austrian actor, director, and writer. He is remembered for playing the lead role as chief inspector Marek in the Österreichischer Rundfunk version of the detective series Tatort. He also played cabaret and wrote numerous theatre plays and film scripts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bernadette Heerwagen</span> German actress (born 1977)

Bernadette Heerwagen is a German actress. She began acting at the age of 16, and has since co-starred in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000.

Isolda Dychauk is a German actress of Russian descent.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adele Neuhauser</span> Austrian actress (born 1959)

Adele Neuhauser is an Austrian actress. She began her career as a theater actress. Later she also worked for television and cinema. She is a member of the Akademie des Österreichischen Films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chiara Schoras</span> German actress

Chiara Schoras is a German actress.

Claudia Garde is a German film director and screenwriter. She has worked for the German TV-series Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, Flemming or the series Tatort.

<i>Tag und Nacht</i> (film) 2010 Austrian film

Tag und Nacht is a 2010 Austrian film directed by Sabine Derflinger. The film won Best Costume at Diagonale 2011, Best Lead Actor for Anna Rot at the New York International Film Festival in 2011, and the best narrative at the Geneva Film Festival in 2012. The film concerns two Austrian women, played by Anna Rot and Magdalena Kronschläger, who consider prostitution an adventure until harsh reality intervenes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmen-Maja Antoni</span> German actress

Carmen-Maja Antoni is a German actress.

Detlef Bothe is a German actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. Since the early 1990s, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions, both German and international. In 2015, he appeared in the James Bond film Spectre as a henchman, in a scene where he and Q are seen riding a cable car in the Austrian Alps.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harald Krassnitzer</span> Austrian actor (born 1960)

Harald Krassnitzer is an Austrian actor.

Simon Hatzl is an Austrian TV, fim and stage actor.

References

  1. Die Presse: Sabine Derflinger: "Man muss ein Alphatier sein" (in German)
  2. Wien.goc.at Sabine Derflinger und Gabriella Hauch erhielten am 10. Dezember 2012 den Wiener Frauenpreis 2012 (in German)
  3. Der Standard - Interview Doris Priessching: "Wahnsinn, welche Bedingungen in der Branche herrschen" (in German)
  4. Film Gazette: tag und nachte (in German)
  5. Kameramenn.de: Sabine Derflingers TAG UND NACHT jetzt im Kino Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  6. Filmtipps.at Tag und nacht
  7. "MR-FILM GRUPPE". www.mr-film.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-01.