Hermine Huntgeburth

Hermine Huntgeburth (b. 1957, Paderborn, Germany) studied in Hamburg and then in Sydney, where she wrote scripts, assisted in theatre direction and worked in film as a technician and camerawoman. After directing three shorts she made her feature film debut in 1991 In the Circle of Loves (Im Kreise der Lieben), for which she won a prize for Best Young Director in Germany. She has made television films and film adaptations of novels, and her next full-length feature film was The Trio (1997). A few years later she had great success with a film for children, Bibi Blocksberg (2002). More recently she made the television films Eva Blond – Confession of Innocents (Eva Blond – Zwerg im Schliessfach, 2003) and The Boxer and the Hairdresser (Der Boxer und die Friseuse 2004). She is currently working on the film Hilde.

MFF Karlovy Vary