Miriam Dehne


Miriam Dehne , is a German film director and screenwriter.

Biography and artistic development

Miriam Dehne grew up in Düsseldorf. Her father, Dr. Achim Dehne was a psychiatrist, author and member of the Wiener Gruppe. Her mother, Sabine Dehne, teaches art, English and German.
After graduation Miriam Dehne moved to Berlin. She completed her design studies at the Hochschule der Künste under Professor Wolfgang Joop. The first Super 8 films about the scene in Berlin in the 1980s / 1990s were made during her studies. She attends the masterclasses of Mark W. Travis, Judith Weston and Keith Cunningham. Stadt als Beute, her first full-length feature film, premiered at the Berlinale in 2005, is honored by the Confédération Internationale des Cinémas D’Art et Essai and receives a nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis. In addition to her work for the cinema and television, Miriam Dehne creates as the author and director the first German web-fiction format They call us Candy Girls for which she receives the ITPV Award in 2008. The feature film Little Paris is released in cinemas in 2009, also being nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis and has its international premiere at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Her theater play Mom's Room premiered in 2014. The music film B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin, for which she is shooting the re-enactments, has its premiere at the Berlinale and receives in 2015 the Defa Foundation's Heiner Carow Prize for the successful combination of fiction and documentation. In the same year Dehne is a guest lecturer for acting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, where she works as the guest director of the film Falling Stars. The film received two awards
As an author she writes screenplays, short stories and plays. Her shortstory Lady Luck was awarded by the Rheinsberger Autorinnenforum. In 2014, her play Mom's Room premiered in Los Angeles. Here she worked with the artist collective The Laboratory Arts Collective, which was founded by the actor and producer Nigel Daly. Together with the Hotel Soho House Berlin Dehne founded the women and film network Women and Film Salon with regular events taking place at the Berlinale. After 2017, the engagement in cooperation with the Sir Savigny Hotel named Female Film Cocktail continued as part of the Berlinale.
Miriam Dehne is a member of the Deutsche Film Akademie and Pro Quote Film. From 2013-2016, she was a jury member of the Prize for Young Cinematography by the German Film Academy and the Neue Nationalgalerie and from 2017 to 2019 of the short film jury of the BKM.
Since 2017, Miriam Dehne has been represented by the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag as a scriptwriter and director.

Filmography – selection

As director

As director and screenwriter

Regie

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979–1989
Little Paris
They call us Candy Girls
A Dress from L.A.
Stadt als Beute