{"id":512,"count":1,"description":"<h2>Award-winner 2011 Helga Reidemeister<\/h2>\r\n\u00bbI fully sign up to the principle of hope, a principle I myself need. In my films, I seek out those people who think and live resistively. I do it for me so that I can survive.\u00ab\r\n\u2013 Helga Reidemeister in taz.de of 7 May 2005\r\n\r\nThe Dortmund Documentary Film Award 2011 is to go to Helga Reidemeister and thus distinguish a film-maker who has been producing documentaries single-mindedly for forty years and who is prepared to tackle controversial themes and portray reality in all its unsettling aspects. At the centre of many of her films are people who never let things get them down, even in the most difficult of circumstances. When viewing the life stories and destinies that fascinate her, Ms Reidemeister never loses focus of the social structures and political implications. In her view, the private is always political.\r\n\r\nHelga Reidemeister, born in Halle an der Saale, studied art at <em>Academy of Fine Arts<\/em> in Berlin and film at the <em>German Film and Television Academy Berlin<\/em> (<em>dffb<\/em>). Politicised by the student movement; she was active as a social worker in the new housing development in Berlin\u2018s \u00bbM\u00e4rkisches Viertel\u00ab from 1968 to 1973. It was here that her first film was made: <strong>Der gekaufte Traum<\/strong> (<strong>The Bought Dream<\/strong>) about a workingclass family. Many award-winning films were to follow \u2013 with subject matter such as children on cancer wards in Moscow, women in prison, peace activists and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Berlin \u2013 until in 2002 she took off to Afghanistan where she made two documentaries: <strong>Texas \u2013 Kabul<\/strong> and <strong>Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz \u2013 eine Liebe in Kabul<\/strong> (<strong>War and Love in Kabul<\/strong>).\r\n\r\nTo mark the 20th anniversary of the cooperation between the <em>Sparkasse Dortmund<\/em> (Dortmund Savings Bank) and the International Women\u2018s Film Festival, the new Dortmund Documentary Film Award, which is endowed with 10,000 EUR as sponsored by the bank, will be conferred in Dortmund every two years.","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/the-dortmund-documentary-film-award-en-2011\/","name":"The Dortmund Documentary Film Award","slug":"the-dortmund-documentary-film-award-en-2011","taxonomy":"movie_cat","parent":508,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Dortmund Documentary Film Award - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/movie-category\/dortmunder-dokumentarfilmpreis-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Dortmund Documentary Film Award - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Award-winner 2011 Helga Reidemeister \u00bbI fully sign up to the principle of hope, a principle I myself need. In my films, I seek out those people who think and live resistively. I do it for me so that I can survive.\u00ab \u2013 Helga Reidemeister in taz.de of 7 May 2005 The Dortmund Documentary Film Award 2011 is to go to Helga Reidemeister and thus distinguish a film-maker who has been producing documentaries single-mindedly for forty years and who is prepared to tackle controversial themes and portray reality in all its unsettling aspects. At the centre of many of her films are people who never let things get them down, even in the most difficult of circumstances. When viewing the life stories and destinies that fascinate her, Ms Reidemeister never loses focus of the social structures and political implications. In her view, the private is always political. Helga Reidemeister, born in Halle an der Saale, studied art at Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Politicised by the student movement; she was active as a social worker in the new housing development in Berlin\u2018s \u00bbM\u00e4rkisches Viertel\u00ab from 1968 to 1973. It was here that her first film was made: Der gekaufte Traum (The Bought Dream) about a workingclass family. Many award-winning films were to follow \u2013 with subject matter such as children on cancer wards in Moscow, women in prison, peace activists and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Berlin \u2013 until in 2002 she took off to Afghanistan where she made two documentaries: Texas \u2013 Kabul and Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz \u2013 eine Liebe in Kabul (War and Love in Kabul). 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