Doris Dörrie
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Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie Kreuzer
Image: Andreas Fischer | Stefanie KreuzerDoris Dörrie as Grimm Poetics Professor 2022 in Kassel
- Stefanie Kreuzer | As at: July 2022 -
Events as part of the Grimm Poetics Professorship in summer semester 2022
Wed., July 6, 2022
6-8 p.m. | Campus Center
(Lecture Hall II)
Public poetry lecture:
"Why tell stories?"
Thursday, July 7, 2022
2-4 p.m. | (by appointment)
Poetics seminar for Kassel students:
"Why be in the world?"
6-8 p.m. | Campus Center
(Lecture Hall I)
Public reading from
Die Heldin reist (2022) with film clips:
"Warum unterwegs sein?"
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Doris Dörrie (*1955) was originally due to receive the Kassel Grimm Poetics Professorship in 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the GPP events have been postponed to the summer semester 2022.
Poster for Doris Dörrie's
Grimm Poetry Professorship 2022
Image: Photo: Contantin Film Verleih GmbH/Dieter Mayr | Poster: Stefanie KreuzerGrimm Poetry Professor 2022: Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie (* 1955) was awarded the Kassel Grimm Poetics Professorship in 2022.
Since the success of her relationship comedy MÄNNER (D 1985), Doris Dörrie has been considered "Germany's most successful[ ] director" according to the much-quoted headline in Der Spiegel.[1] To date, she has directed almost forty feature and documentary films and often also written screenplays for cinema and television. Examples in chronological order are BIN ICH SCHÖN? (D 1998), ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT (D 1999), NACKT (D 2002), KIRSCHBLÜTEN - HANAMI (D 2008), DIE FRISEUSE (D2010), KLIMAWECHSEL (D 2010), ALLES INKLUSIVE (D 2014), GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA (D 2016) and KIRSCHBLÜTEN & DÄMONEN (D 2019). In the year of her Grimm Poetics Professorship, FREIBAD (D 2022) premieres and will be released in cinemas in September.
Her films have won numerous awards, including German Film Awards (1986), Bavarian Film Awards (1998, 2008, 2012), the Grimme Prize (2011) and Max Ophüls (Honorary) Awards (1984, 2018). In 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Oscar Academy to vote on the awarding of the 'Oscars'.
But Doris Dörrie is not only known as a director. With over two dozen book publications to her name, she has now also entered the public eye on an equal footing as an author. In 2003, she was honored with the German Book Prize for her autobiographical novel Das blaue Kleid (2002), in which she deals with the sudden death of her husband, colleague and cameraman Helge Weindler. Janet Schayan has aptly stated:
"Today, feature writers argue whether she is better at writing books or making movies. The answer is simple: Doris Dörrie can do both."[2]
Since 1997, Doris Dörrie has also been a professor of "Applied Dramaturgy and Material Development" at the University of Television and Film in Munich. With her book Leben, schreiben, atmen (2019), she conveys impulses for creative writing - in line with the subtitle Eine Einladung zum Schreiben - to a wider readership. In her current (travel) book Die Heldin reist (2022), she gives an autobiographical account of her stays and encounters in the USA, Japan and Morocco over the past decades.
[1] Fabienne Liptay also quotes Der Spiegel as the editor of the first German-language volume on director Doris Dörrie. Cf. Fabienne Liptay: Foreword. In: Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Doris Dörrie. Munich: edition text + kritik 2014 (= Film-Konzepte 36). P. 3 f. S. 3.
[2] The quote can be found on Doris Dörrie's author page at Diogenes-Verlag:
www.diogenes.ch/leser/autoren/d/doris-doerrie.html.