TERRE DES FEMMES FilmFest FrauenWelten in Tübingen, Filmfestival mit faszinierenden Gästen

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	Katja Baumgarten Conversation with audience: Monday, 28. 11. 2011, 4pm Studio Museum In 1981 Katja Baumgarten received her midwifery degree from the National Women's Hospital in Bochum. She worked in the delivery room of the district hospital in Dachau until 1982, which had the first maternity hospital in Germany with the methods of Leboyer / Odent. In 1983 she received residence permission as an independent midwife in Hanover and has since worked in the areas of prenatal care, home birth support and postpartum care. From 1983 to 1992 she studied „free art“ at the Fachhochschule Hannover and finished her studies with a Diplom degree. The next four years she studied "free art" at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and also graduated with a Diplom. Ms. Baumgarten took part three times in the NDR’s career building project "The documentary perspective", is a founding member of the film workshop Documentary Work e.V. in Hamburg, and has worked since 2000 as an independent filmmaker and freelancer on the editorial board of the German Midwives magazine. Filmography (Selection) • 1992 Großvater - wo komm ich her, wo geh' ich hin? (documentary) • 1993 ...fast schon als Eindringling / Mutterland (documentary) • 1997/2001 Wie habt Ihr das alle geschafft? (documentary) • 2001 Mein kleines Kind (documentary)
	Brenda Davis Conversation with audience: Monday, 28. 11. 2011, 8:30pm Cinema Waldhorn Rottenburg Tuesday, 29. 11. 2011, 6pm Studio Museum Born in 1963, Brenda Davis is a Canadian citizen who grew up in Toronto. She is a U.S. permanent resident who currently lives in New York City. Brenda has over 20 years experience in various aspects of filmmaking: she has worked as a script supervisor, a script consultant, and extensively as a researcher. She is a member of the prestigious researcher’s organization FOCAL International. Brenda has made five short films for NGOS, shot as a one-person crew. SISTER is her first feature documentary.
	Ines Albrecht-Engel Panel discussion: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 8:15pm Studio Museum Ines Albrecht-Engel has been a birth assistant since 1981 and is co-founder of ISIS, the center for pregnancy, birth and parenthood in Göttingen. For many years she was chairman of the GfG (Society for Childbirth Preparation), now honorary chairman. She wrote many technical papers and several successful guidebooks published by rororo and Gräfe and Unzer, sometimes co-authored by her husband, gynecologist Dr. Manfred Albrecht. Mrs. Albrecht-Engel is the mother of three children.
	Joachim Faulstich Conversation with audience: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 2.45pm Studio Museum Joachim Faulstich was born in 1950 and lives near Frankfurt am Main. He has worked as a TV Journalist since 1970 and as an editor for TV documentaries and reportages at ARD/HR since 1989. He is the writer and director of many scientific documentaries, received 14 national and international awards, and was nominated for the Grimme-Preis. For 20 years, he has be interested in alternative medical treatment and research on consciousness. His film "Das Geheimnis der Heilung" (ARD 2010) is the continuance of the film "Rätselhafte Heilung" (ARD 2006) which presented new scientific knowledge. Filmography (Selection) • 2006 Rätselhafte Heilung • 2010 Das Geheimnis der Heilung
	Anja Hansmann Conversation with audience: Wednesday, 30. 11. 2011, 4pm Studio Museum Anja Hansmann, born in 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau, lives and works as a freelance writer and director in Berlin. Her fields of work include documentaries and animated films for children. She studied Graphic and Media Design at the University of Mainz, Germany and at the Plymouth College of Art and Design, UK, and graduated in 2004. After that she lived almost two years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she produced documentaries. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals and received four awards. Filmography (Selection) • 2009 Lichtblicke - Auf den Spuren der Geburt - Otros caminos para dar a luz (Documentary) • 2006 Más Tango (Documentary) • 2005 Brieffreundschaften (Short film) • 2003 Gecekondu - über Nacht gebaut (Documentary)
	Christine Lang Penal Discussion: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 8:15pm Studio Museum Christine Lang was born and raised in Rosenheim (Bavaria). From 1993 to 1996 she completed her midwifery training in Erlangen, and was a midwife in Rosenheim for the next five years. She has been a midwife at the Klinikum Dritter Orden in Munich, and an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), both since 2001. From 2003 to 2005 she was on the board of the Association of German Lactation Consultants. In 2006 her daughter was born. Christine Lang is the author of "Bonding", which was released in 2009 by Elsevier publishing.
	Beate Neuhaus Conversation with audience: Monday, 28. 11. 2011, 6pm Museum Kino 2 Beate Neuhaus studied literature and history in Berlin, ended her studies with the Staatsexamen and completed a PhD. She has worked as a lecturer at the University of Bremen and at the Munich Film School, directed various film productions, and worked as a scientific consultant for the preschool program of ZDF. Beate Neuhaus travels regularly for extended trips to Latin America, where she has made numerous independent films and documentaries. In Nicaragua, she worked as a consultant for the television program of the Ministry of Land Refom. In Guatemala, she was an aid worker of the German Development Service, a consultant for building a media center in the context of the peace process. In addition to her film productions, Beate Neuhaus works for both the German Development Aid in Guatemala, as well as for the Civil Peace Service and is a consultant for the German World Famine Relief in social projects in Latin America. She received the first prize for documentary at the ICARO Festival in Guatemala in 1998. Filmography (Selection) • 1992 Mit unseren eigenen Worten (documentary) • 1997 Alcemos la Voz - Lasst uns die Stimme erheben (documentary) • 1998 El Gran Jaguar (documentary) • 2002 30 Jahre Exil - Ein Porträt zweier Familien aus Chile (documentary)
	Johanna Schacht Penal discussion: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 8:15pm Studio Museum Johanna Schacht was born in Hamburg in 1976 and currently lives in Wiesbaden. She has two children with her partner, ages 8 and 10 years. In 2005, she completed her degree in special education with an emphasis on art therapy at the University of Cologne. She is especially interested in prenatal psychology. Johanna Schacht is a board member of ISPPM (International Society for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine).
	Anka Schmid Conversation with audience: Wednesday, 30. 11. 2011, 6pm Studio Museum Anka Schmid sees herself as a border-crosser between film and art and, in addition to narrative cinema and TV films, she also makes experimental films and video installations. She has won various prizes and awards and has made numerous exhibitions. Her films have been shown at international festivals such as Locarno, San Francisco and Sundance. Anka Schmid was born in Zurich in 1961. After graduating from high school, she began her studies in German philology, and shot her first experimental videos and Super-8 films. In the turbulent 80’s she was active in a street theater and a music band. In 1984 she moved to Berlin when it was still a divided city, because she had been accepted as a student at the German Film and TV Academy, (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB). There she made numerous short films and videos. In 1989 she spent a year in the USA, shooting the Hopi documentary TECHQUA IKACHI, LAND – MEIN LEBEN with the Hopi Indian James Danaquymptewa and the artist Agnes Barmettler. In 1991 she completed her studies at the DFFB with the feature film HINTER VERSCHLOSSENEN TÜREN, which won numerous prizes. After that, she worked as freelance cinematographer and director’s assistant in Germany, Switzerland, France, Argentina and the USA. In 1994, her son was born in Berlin and in 1998 she moved to Zurich with him. In Switzerland, in addition to her own creative work, she is a lecturer in film and heads animated film workshops. Filmography (Selection) • 1986 Habibi – ein Liebesbrief (short film) • 1989 Techqua Ikachi, Land – mein Leben (co-director, documentary) • 1991 Hinter verschlossenen Türen (fiction) • 1995 Magic Matterhorn (documentary) • 2002 ABC Sound Alphabet (documentary) • 2005 Yello – Boris Blank und Dieter Meier (documentary) • 2008 Hierig-Heutig (experimental film) • 2009 Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch – Das grosse Spiel Film (documentary) • 2011 Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand (documentary)
	Brunhild Schmid Conversation with audience: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 8:15pm Studio Museum Brunhild Schmid was born in 1963. She took the exam to be a nurse in1984 and the exam to be a midwife in 1997. She is the Chairman of the County Federation of midwiefes in Tübingen. In 2009 she began a two year part-time training in the practice of midwifery in salutogenesis. After three years in the delivery room, she has worked for 11 years as a professional midwife in Tübingen. The spectrum of her work covers all areas of midwifery from the beginning of pregnancy through birth until the end of lactation.
	Jan Schmitt Conversation with audience: Friday, 25. 11. 2011, 6pm Studio Museum Friday, 25. 11. 2011, 8:30pm Cinema Waldhorn In 1977 at age 10, Jan Schmitt moved with his mother and older siblings to Bremerhaven, where he lived until he began his studies. Schmitt studied political science, worked in radio and then television. Currently, he lives in Wiesbaden and Berlin, and works as a TV reporter and editor, since April 2001 with ZDF. His mother’s incomprehensible suicide in 1996 leaves everyone shocked and confused. It is not until years later when Schmitt’s sister also commits suicide that he gathers up his courage and begins to read in his mother’s diaries. He talks with her friends, and gradually pieces together the shocking puzzle. The first feature-length documentary by Jan Schmitt is a small, independent Dutch-German film production, which was created in collaboration with the Amsterdam filmmaker, editor and artist, Ania Harre, and was shot without film sponsorship. Jan Schmitt is working on two other films about sexual abuse.
	Gudrun Zecha Conversation with audience: Sunday, 27. 11. 2011, 8:15pm, Studio Museum Gudrun Zecha was born in 1961 in Fulda. She has been married since 1981 and has three children. She completed her training as a midwife from 1979 to 1981 at the Universitätsfrauenklinik in Würzburg. Then she worked in the hospital delivery room in Sindelfingen until 2007, when she became senior midwife and team leader in the field of gynecology and obstetrics at the Herrenberg Hospital. She worked to ensure that a midwife-led delivery room was opened as an additional service at the Herrenberg Hospital and that the principles of the "Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" were followed. Gudrun Zecha also leads prenatal classes for couples in Sindelfingen and is actively involved in postpartum care. From 2003 to 2004 she was employed at the development and implementation of the counseling concept "Menschenskinder" and is since 1992 member of the board of the "Bund deutscher Hebammen e.V.", district of Böblingen.