Mareike Wegener (born March 7, 1983) is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. Together with Hannes Lang (PEAK, I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER) and Carmen Losmann (Work Hard, Play Hard, OECONOMIA) she runs the production cooperative PETROLIO FILM.
Biography
BearbeitenMareike Wegener was born in Westphalian Münsterland and grew up near the Dutch border, where her father ran a jazz bar. [1] Upon graduating from high school, she worked as an assistant film editor in Hamburg before beginning her studies in Audiovisual Media at The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) in 2003. Wegener would go on to study Documentary Media Studies at The New School in New York before finishing her degree in Germany. [2] Wegener’s thesis film, Al Hansen. The Matchstick Traveller premiered at the New York Anthology Film Archives in January 2009. [3]
Wegener was awarded a Gerd Ruge Grant in 2009 in order to work on the documentary project Mark Lombardi – Death-Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy, filmed in New York the following year. [4] The documentary on American Neo-Conceptual artist Mark Lombardi (1951–2000) examines the artist's work, life, and untimely death through interviews with his close friends, family members, fellow artists, and gallerists. [5] The film received a premiere followed by a week long run at the Museum of Modern Art in September 2009. [6]
In 2012 Wegener founded the production cooperative Petrolio Film together with Hannes Lang and Carmen Losmann. Wegener and Lang completed the documentary I Want to See the Manager in 2014, which premiered at CPH:DOX in Denmark. [7] In 2019 Petrolio released Lang’s short documentary RIAFN, which premiered in the international medium-length and short film competition at Visions du Réel. [8] This was followed in 2020 by Carmen Losmann’s feature-length documentary OECONOMIA premiering at the 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival.
Wegener’s short film X premiered in competition at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in May 2021 [9] and was nominated for the German Short Film Award in the same year.[10] Her first feature fiction ECHO was invited to the 2022 Berlinale.[11]
Mareike Wegener was selected as an Emerging Producer 2023 at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.[12] She is a mentor for documentary filmmaking in the DocNomads program at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. [13]
Filmography
Bearbeiten| Year | Title | Credited as | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Editor | ||
| 2005 | Hairpieces (short doc) | Ja | Ja | Nein | Ja |
| 2008 | Ecke-Erdtrabant (short doc) | Ja | Ja | Nein | Ja |
| 2008 | Leavenworth, WA (short doc) by Hannes Lang | Nein | Ja | Nein | Ja |
| 2009 | Al Hansen. The Matchstick Traveller (doc) | Ja | Ja | Nein | Ja |
| 2011 | PEAK (doc) by Hannes Lang | Nein | Ja | Nein | Nein |
| 2012 | Mark Lombardi. Death-defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy (doc) | Ja | Ja | Nein | Ja |
| 2014 | I Want To See The Manager (doc) by Hannes Lang | Nein | Ja | Ja | Nein |
| 2019 | RIAFN (short doc) by Hannes Lang | Nein | Ja | Ja | Nein |
| 2020 | OECONOMIA (doc) by Carmen Losmann | Nein | Nein | Ja | Nein |
| 2021 | X (short docu-fiction) | Ja | Ja | Ja | Ja |
| 2022 | ECHO (fiction) | Ja | Ja | Ja | Ja |
Awards
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References
Bearbeiten- ↑ Interview Mareike Wegener. In: WG News + Arts Web Archive. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch). Fehler beim Aufruf der Vorlage:Cite web: Archiv im Parameter URL erkannt. Archive müssen im Parameter Archiv-URL angegeben werden.
- ↑ Mareike Wegener Student Profile. In: Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Abgerufen im November 2022.
- ↑ Invitation. In: Al Hansen Website. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ Promising Filmmakers Awarded. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 19. August 2009, abgerufen im November 2022.
- ↑ Interview Mareike Wegener. In: Filmmaker Magazine. 13. September 2012, abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ MoMA Film Series. In: MoMA Calendar. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ Release Info. In: IMDb. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ About RIAFN. In: Visions du Réel Festival Catalogue 2019. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ About X. In: Oberhausen Festival Catalogue 2021. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ Culture Minister Awards Ingenious Cineasts. In: Federal German Government. Abgerufen im November 2022.
- ↑ About ECHO. In: Berlinale Festival Catalogue 2022. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ Emerging Producers Database. In: Ji.hlava Website. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ Mentor's Short Bio. In: Doc Nomads Joint Masters. Abgerufen im November 2022 (englisch).
- ↑ NRW Fund Awards Documentary Filmmakers. In: Blickpunkt:Film. Abgerufen im November 2022.
- ↑ Minister Schäfer Awards Young Artists. In: State of NRW. 13. September 2013, abgerufen im November 2022.
- ↑ Jury GWFF Award Best First Feature at Berlinale. Abgerufen am 26. Januar 2022.