Films by Grete Jentzen

Germany 2013, 20 min
by Yasmin Khalifa

Who believes in a good working multi-cultural society? Volksbühne Basel does. Housewives, stage actors, asylum seekers, students and musicians from 12 different countries have made it their mission to amalgamate Shakespeare’s language and humour with their cross-cultural observations of everyday life. Completely forthright interviews are combined with absurd rehearsal situations and the theatrical production. The protagonists win hearts and laurels with absolute authenticity and witty playfulnes

Germany 2011
by Ulrike Schamoni

FAREWELL TO THE FROGS is a portrait of the late German filmmaker Ulrich Schamoni realized by his daughter, renowned photographer Ulrike Schamoni, on the basis of her father’s video diary. Diseased of leukaemia Ulrich Schamoni films his own life until several days before he dies in 1998. Assembled with excerpts from his works, director Ulrike Schamoni and editor Grete Jentzen aim to preserve the legacy of one of Germany´s greatest filmmakers. Schamoni always lived his life to the fullest and even