Franke, Dörte
Biography:
Dörte Franke, documentarist and writer, was born in Leipzig in 1974. In 1982, she left East Germany and moved to West Germany. Franke studied politics, German literature, and history in Cologne, and then drama studies at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 2001 to 2005. Franke is the director and scriptwriter of the documentary Stolperstein, the portrayal of Gunter Demnig, the creator of the world’s largest decentralized Holocaust memorial. Dörte Franke lives in Berlin.
Bibliography & More:
Franke, Dörte. denkmalimkopf (transl. thinkinyourhead), Munich: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag. 2002.
Franke, Dörte. Die einen wetten, die anderen warten (transl. Some People Gamble and Some People Wait). Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. 2001.
Filmography:
| 2011 | Tatort: Verschleppt (Crime Scene: Kidnapped, author, TV) |
| 2011 | Das System (The System, co-author, feature film, TV) |
| 2008 | Stoplersteine (Stumbling Block, doc.) |
| 2006 | Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (Last to Know, doc.) |
| 2006 | Der Kommunist (The Communist, doc.) |
| 2004 | Spurensucher – Bilder von Otto Weidt (Seeking Traces - Images of Otto Weidt, doc.) |
| 2003 | Grow or Go – Die Architekten des global village (Grow or Go – The Architects of the Global Village, doc.) |
| 2002 | Westpaket (A Parcel from the West, short) |
| 2000 | Keine verlorene Zeit (No Time Lost, doc.) |