Caroline Link
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Caroline Link (born June 2, 1964 in Bad Nauheim, Germany), is a German film director and screenwriter, the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. She studied from 1986 to 1990 at the Munich Academy of Film and Television (HFF), and then worked as an assistant director and script writer.
Link's early work includes the short film Bunte Blumen, from 1988. She was a co-director on the documentary film Das Glück zum Anfassen (1989). For Bavaria Film, she wrote two screenplays to the detective series Der Fahnder (The Investigators).
Link's first feature film, Jenseits der Stille (Beyond Silence, 1996) was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film five years before, and attracted attention for its portrayal of a family with deaf parents.[1] Her second feature film was Annaluise and Anton (1999), based on a novel by Erich Kästner. Her third feature film, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 2001), adapted from the book by Stefanie Zweig and shot on location in Kenya[2], received the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film for that year.
Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002.[3]
[edit] Filmography as Director and Writer
- Der Fahnder (1985) (TV Series)
- Bunte Blumen (1988)
- Glück zum Anfassen (1989)
- Sommertage (1990)
- Kalle der Träumer (1992) (TV)
- Jenseits der Stille (1996)
- Annaluise & Anton (1999)
- Nowhere in Africa (2001)
[edit] References
- ^ Dinitia Smith. "Families Joined or Divided by Silence; Film Shed Light on Emotional Issues of the Deaf", The New York Times, 11 June 1998. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
- ^ Stefanie Zweig. "In the African Sun While Dark Came Over Europe", The Guardian, 23 February 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
- ^ Laura Winters. "Strangers in a strange land", The New York Times, 21 March 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
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