Sophie Narr was born in 1980 and grew up in Berlin. Today she is living in Berlin and Florence (Italy). After working as a professionally trained film and video editor, she studied screenwriting at the German Academy of Film & Television (HFF) - Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Babelsberg. In 2009 her documentary Der Die Das about school beginners in the problematic district of Berlin-Wedding was released in German cinemas and later broadcasted on national television.
Her artistic work as a director and screenwriter has been awarded international prizes and scholarships, including the Hans W. Geißendörfer Young Talent Award. Among others, she was a scholarship holder of the Junge Akademie der Künste (Section Media Art) and received the Cast&Cut Scholarship in Hannover (Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover & Nordmedia).
Sophie Narr projects focus on children and young people. Her short films In the shade and About Life deal with the worlds of neglected children, whose subjective perception of the world is always central. In 2019, she wrote the screenplay Lilea Rosa (AT) with Christian Klandt, a drama about the illegal organ trafficking of children in Moldova, based on research funded by a Robert Bosch Foundation grant. In 2021 she shot the documentary Berlin-Portbou in the footsteps of Walter Benjamin on behalf of the Akademie der Künste.
In addition to her work as an author, director and editor, Sophie Narr has been working as a freelance lecturer for art education in the field of film and photography since 2010. The focus of these workshops is the intensive discussion with children and young people about themselves and their social environment. Through the medium of film or photography, the participants learn not only to express themselves and their points of view, but also to gain access to the views and living environments of their peers.
Since 2021 she is a Trainer in teacher training Operatori di Educazione visiva a scuola (Specialist in Visual Education in Schools) in of the Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola (National Programme Cinema and Pictures for Schools) carried out by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) and MIBACT (Italian Ministry of Culture).
Education
2015 - 2016 RESEARCH QUALIFICATION: Asth Paidea - Aesthetical Education for Children of pre-school age
Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin
2013 - 2014 QUALIFICATION: PROJECT WORK IN ARTS EDUCATION
International professional qualification - C&Q Beratung & Bildung, Berlin
2009 - 2011 MASTER'S STUDENT (Meisterschüler) SCREENWRITING
Film and Television Academy (HFF) - Konrad Wolf, Potsdam
2003 - 2008 SCREENWRITING / DRAMATURGY studies
Film and Television Academy (HFF) - Konrad Wolf, Potsdam
2002 GUEST STUTENT: SCREENWRITING
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney
1999 - 2002 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FILM AND VIDEO EDITOR
Arbeitskreis Medienpädagogik e.V. Berlin
Teaching
2021 OPERATORI DI EDUCAZIONE VISIVA A SCUOLA (Specialists in visual education in schools)
Instructor in teacher training
a project of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and MIBACT(Ministry of Culture)
since 2011 KUNSTWELTEN
Academic & Hands-on Arts Education for Secondary School Students - nationwide
a project of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
since 2012 TEENS SPECIAL
Academic & Hands-on art projects for adolescents with socially deprived backgrounds
C/O Berlin Foundation
2014 WINTERREISE
Practice-oriented documentary film course for juvenile prison inmates
a project by aufBruch e.V.
since 2011 JUNIOR & TEENS
Academic & Hands-on Art Projects for Children and Adolescents
C/O Berlin Foundation
2010 HFF - KONRAD WOLF
Meisterschüler - Lecturer, Dokumentary Film Seminar of Prof. Jens Becker
Awards & Grants
2014 Project fund documentary project - Weites Land
F.C. Flick Foundation
2013 Grant and Residency at the artist house Lukas
funded by the land Mecklenburg - West Pomerania
2010 Cast&Cut Residency
funded by normedia Fonds GmbH & Foundation of the cultural region Hannover
2009 Residency / Grant Junge Akademie
Akademie der Künste Berlin, Section: Film and Media Arts
2009 Subsidy Award Rhineland-Palatinate
For the artistic work on the film The Amount Of Small Things
2008 Newcomer Award Hans W. Geißendörfer
for Screenplay and Directing - Film: In The Shade
2008 Hans W. Geißendörfer Nachwuchspreis
Other Activites
2022 Head of Team Honorary Guests/ 72. Berlinale - Int. Film Festival Berlin
2021 Event Protocol / 71. Berlinale - Int. Film Festival Berlin
2015 - 2019 Guest Management / 66. - 69. Berlinale - Int. Film Festival Berlin - Section "Culinary Cinema"
2006 - 2015 Freelance Author / Film Critic (zitty Berlin, Tagesspiegel a.o.)
2011 Set - Manager: Escape
Short Ficition / D: Rosa Hannah Ziegler / Wendländische Filmkooperative
2009 Jury member 29th Video/Film Days, Koblenz
2005 Festival Team Sehsüchte Int. Student Film Festival Potsdam / Section: Screenplay Award & Pitch!
1992 Jury Member 42nd International Film Festival Berlinale - Section: Children Film Fest
Project References
INTERNATIONAL - ITALY
BERLIN
C/O Berlin - Internationales Forum für Fotografie
Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung Berlin
F.C. Flick Stiftung gegen Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Rassismus und Intoleranz
Förderverein der Moses-Medelssohn-Schule, Berlin
Girls Move - Ein Projekt für schuldistanzierte Mädchen
Kinderwohngruppe Neuhland Berlin
Kontakt- und Beratungsstelle für obdachlose junge Menschen, Berlin
Kunstwelten - ein Projekt der Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg Berlin
WinterREISE - kulturelles Bildungsprojekt von aufbruch, Berlin
MECKLENBURG - WEST POMERANIA
ASB Jugendclub "Mühlentreff" Anklam
AWO Erziehungshilfeverbund Strausberg
Demokratisches Ostvorpommern – Verein für politische Kultur e.V., Anklam
Förderverein der Evangelischen Grundschule Benz
Initiative Wir von Hier - Gemeinsam für unsere Insel, Usedom
Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum "Biberburg" Anklam
Stiftung für Ehrenamt und bürgerschaftliches Engagement in Mecklenburg Vorpommern
SAXONY / SAXONY - ANHALT
Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Mittelschule »Am Holländer«, Döbeln
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