Juliane (Maria) Lorenz receives an honorary award at FilmPlus
Juliane (Maria) Lorenz receives an honorary award at FilmPlus
The 13th forum for film editing and montage honors the editor with an hommage and the Geißendörfer Award.
When Juliane Lorenz began her career as a film cutter in 1975 and wrote, directed and edited her first documentary, Berlinale 1983, the film world was linear. Today, the industry distinguishes between linear and non-linear video editing and mechanical film editing, and classic film cutting on the Steenbeck editing table has all but disappeared.
It was a bold move by the 2013 honorary editor when, in the early 1980s, she began to use the term “montage” in her film credits in order to provide a more precise description and title for the profession otherwise referred to in Germany at the time simply as “cutting.” The term “montage” has since become an established job description. A cutter, master cutter, editor or editorial dramaturg needs to be multi-talented, to be equipped with knowledge and abilities that cover the entire film-making process, while also being an artist as well. And the list goes on. The film editor needs to possessed of understanding and patience, must never be nasty to the producer and be aware that the scriptwriter and cameramen must be accorded the respect they deserve, cover everything the director is unable to deal with and appreciate that the post-production team, actors, costume and set designers, makeup artists, composers, production managers and script and directorial assistants also have a heavy burden to bear. Somehow the editor has to negotiate this minefield and ensure that the film he or she edits is ultimately a damn good one.
During her editing career Juliane Lorenz had the good fortune to work with wonderful teams and warmly thanks all those she has collaborated with (listed here in the order in which she worked with them): Ernst Batta, Dr. Bernd Grote, Ila von Hasperg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Ballhaus, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Barbara Baum, Rolf Zehetbauer, Dieter Minx, Frieda Lorenz, Dr. Günter Rohrbach, Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Milan Bor, Horst Wendlandt, Thomas Schühly, Liselotte Eder, Angelika Deumling, Marianne Lüdcke, Regina Ziegler, Martin Wiebel, Christoph Schlingensief, Werner Schroeter, Elfriede Jelinek, Elfi Mikesch, Alberte Barsacq, Matthias Lempert, Tom Toelle, Heinz Rathzack, Ingeborg Sambeth, Raoul Peck, Maria-Theresia Wagner, Gebhard Henke, Angelika Weber, Phillip Gröning, Helga Reidemeister, Ula Stöckl, Jeanine Meerapfel, Andrea Wenzler, Caroline Link, Teresa Villaverde, Romuald Karmakar, Lilly Grote, Harald Bergmann, Fritz Lehner, Oskar Roehler and many others. It was a great pleasure for her to work with the following actors (alphabetically): Mario Adorf, Harry Baer, Annamirl Bierbichler, Moritz Bleibtreu, Carol Bouquet, Dirk Bogarde, Hark Bohm, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Margit Carstensen, Mathieu Carrière, Anita Cerquetti, Brad Davis, Ivan Desny, Annemarie Düringer, Hannelore Elsner, Doris Schade, Andréa Ferréol, Isabelle Huppert, Gottfried John, Herbert Knaup, Udo Kier, Günter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, Klaus Löwitsch, Dagmar Manzel, Maria de Mezairos, Magdalena Montezuma, Jeanne Moreau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Raoul Peck, Kurt Raab, Katja Riemann, Maria Schell, Hanna Schygulla, Tom Schilling, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Volker Spengler, Tilda Swinton, Giesela Uhlen, Liv Ullmann, Manfred Zapatka, Rosel Zech.
On 21 November, rbb kulturradio will broadcast an interview with Juliane Maria Lorenz as part of its “Kulturnachrichten” (Cultural News) series.
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Photo left: THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, 1978, © RWFF
Photo right: © RWFF / Elfi Mikesch