- Caroline Link
Caroline Link (born
June 2 ,1964 inBad Nauheim ,Germany ), is a Germanfilm director andscreenwriter .Life and Work
Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied 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. [cite news | author=Dinitia Smith | title= Families Joined or Divided by Silence; Film Shed Light on Emotional Issues of the Deaf | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E7D7133AF932A25755C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | date=1998-06-11 | accessdate=2008-01-22] Her second feature film was "Annaluise and Anton" (1999), based on a novel byErich Kästner . Her third feature film, "Nirgendwo in Afrika" ("Nowhere in Africa ", 2001), adapted from the book by Stefanie Zweig and shot on location inKenya [cite news | author=Stefanie Zweig | title=In the African Sun While Dark Came Over Europe | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,918127,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=2003-02-23 | accessdate=2008-01-22] , received theAcademy Award asBest Foreign Language Film for that year.Link lives with her partner, the film director Dominik Graf, and their daughter, who was born in 2002. [cite news | author=Laura Winters | title=Strangers in a strange land | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7D9163DF930A15751C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | date=2003-03-21 | accessdate=2008-01-22]
Awards
*1996 Bavarian Film Award, Best New Director
*1998 Bavarian Film Award, Best Young People's Film [http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf]Filmography
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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)References
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