Selection Committee 2013
<f.l.: L. Meyer, G. Lemke, R. Eue, A. Richter, N. Rademacher, C. Klauß, C. Danielsen, C. Lehmann, F. Schuster
For many weeks their office is a dark room with a big screen for viewing all the films that reached us – it's the working environment of the film experts that form DOK Leipzig's selection committee.
Who is responsible for selecting the films of DOK Leipzig 2013? Read here:
Festival Director DOK Leipzig, Filmmaker
Claas Danielsen
born 1966 in Hamburg, studied documentary film direction at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). He realized 7 films; some of them were awarded at international film festivals and broadcasted in European television. Since 1999 Claas Danielsen developed and established... read more
Film publicist and journalist
Ralph Eue
born 1953 in Blankenburg, studied German, Romance languages and architecture in Marburg, Paris and Frankfurt. Since 1980, he works as a Film publicist and translator, until 1984 he was an editor of the fabulous journal "Filmkritik". 1990-95 he was the Press Officer of "Tobis Filmkunst", since 1996 he works as a television journalist aswell. In 2005 he was the Curator of... read more
Author and Dramaturge
Cornelia Klauß
born in 1962 in Dresden; she studied film at HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg From 1990 through to 2002 she was the programme director of Filmkunsthaus Babylon in Berlin. Since then she works as a free-lance author of documentary films, radio features... read more
Head of Documentary Programme DOK Leipzig
Grit Lemke
born in 1965 in Spremberg/Niederlausitz. Studies in cultural studies, ethnology and literature, in Leipzig; since 1993 freelance author for print/TV (including Leipziger Volkszeitung, junge Welt, die tageszeitung, MDR, WHDTV/USA); academic publications on biographical research and folk culture, since 1991 in various functions at DOK Leipzig... read more
Head of Animation DOK Leipzig
Annegret Richter
born 1975 in Löbau, has been Festival Director of the International Short Film Festival – Filmfest Dresden till summer 2010. Before that, she worked in the position of a Research Fellow at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University... read more
Publicist
Lars Meyer
born 1974 in Bremen. He studied German literature, theater studies and journalism at FU Berlin, furthermore scriptwriting in Munich. He works as freelancing film journalist and author... read more
producer
Nadja Rademacher
works as a research associate for the German Institute for Animated Film (DIAF) in Dresden and freelance in production business. She studied Journalism and Eastern European studies in Berlin and Liège... read more
video and permormance artist
Dr. Claudia Lehmann
born 1975 in Langenhagen. After her PhD in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics in Hamburg, she studied Film at Hamburg Media School. During her physics studies she worked as a light technician in the theater Hamburger Kammerspiele... read more
animation filmmaker and lecturer
Falk Schuster
born 1980 in Oschatz/ Saxony. He started his studies at he art college Burg Giebichenstein in 2003. His graduation film "Laufende Geschäfte" celebrated success at many film festivals in 2009. Since 2010 Falk Schuster works freelance as an animation filmmaker, illustrator and film teacher... read more