Filmography Petra Seeger
2008 »In search of Memory«
Screenplay / Director / Producer
Portrait of the neuroscientist and Nobel prizewinner
Eric Kandel
2006
Nov. 2006
Formation of the production company
FilmForm Köln GmbH
together with Joachim von Mengershausen
2006 »Bis zu der großen Ewigkeit«
Director / Camera / Producer
Portrait of a centenarian
60 min. Documentary
Production: Petra Seeger Film
2006 »Shanghai, Shanghai«
Shanghai, Shanghai
Idea / Development
Weekly magazine show from Shanghai
in collaboration with Terra Nova
2005
Photo project / New York
Purchase of Grolman Results / Frankfurt
2004 »Die besten Seiten von...«
Screenplay / Director / 2nd Camera
Pilot for monthly literary show for WDR
With Hannelore Hoger
15 min. Production: First Entertainment
2003 »Vatersland«
Screenplay / Autobiographical feature film
Supported by the Filmstiftung NRW
2003 »After the bombing«
Director / Camera /Producer
Portrait of a Balinese woman after the 2002 bomb attacks
Production: Petra Seeger Film
2002 »Wim Wenders, BAP und der Oscar«
Director / Camera / Producer
Portrait of Wim Wenders at work
60 min. WDR
Production: Petra Seeger Film
2001 »Vill Passiert«
2nd camera for the cinema film by Wim Wenders about
the rock group BAP
2000/2001 »Die Schiller-Gang«
Director / Camera / Producer
Docu-Soap. 6 30-min episodes WDR
Production: Petra Seeger Film
http://www.wdr.de/tv/schiller-gang
1999 »380° Afrika«
Director
Documentary about the making of the TV series "Tanja" by Berengar
Pfahl in Senegal
48 min. Prod. Berengar Pfahl Film for WWF
1999
Formation of the production company
PETRA SEEGER FILM
Since 1999 also active as camerawoman
1997/98 »Film is a battleground«
Director /Producer
Portrait of the film director Rudolf Thome at work
45 min. Prod. WDR/Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Design
Academy)
In collaboration with students at the Academy
1996 Peter Zadek inszeniert »Mondlicht« von Harold Pinter
(Peter Zadek stages Harold Pinter's "Moonlight")
Director
Portrait of the director at work
30 min. Prod. WDR
1995 »Nikolaikirche Leipzig«
(The Nikolai Church in Leipzig, the "base" of the demonstrations
in October 1989)
Director
Portrait of the working life of the director Frank Beyer
Documentary
60 Min. Prod. Edition Konzept for WDR
1995 »Nikolaikirche«
Author
CD-ROM on the story of the church movement in East Germany leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989
1st prize in the category "Edutainment" at the International Multimedia
Fair Berlin
1993 »Zwischen allen Stühlen«
Director
Portrait of the director Christoph Schlingensief
45 Min. Prod. Edition Konzept for WDR
seit 1993
since 1993 Various film contributions to cultural and women's magazine shows for WDR
1992
»Ein Film kommt auf die Welt«
Director
Documentary on the release of the second part of Edgar Reitz' "Heimat" trilogy "Leaving Home".
90 min. Prod. Tag/Traum for WDR
1990
»Abschied vom Drehbuch«
Director
A documentary on the making of the second part of Edgar Reitz' "Heimat" trilogy "Leaving
Home"
76 Min. Prod.WDR
"Special event" at the Venice Film Festival (1991)
1986
Press agent for international feature films at the film festivals in Cannes and Venice
1984 »Gratwanderung«
actress
Cinema feature film, Prod. ZDF/DFFB Berlin
Featuring: Irina Hoppe, Michael Altmann, Petra Seeger
Director: Barbara Kappen
1984 »Turin - Santo Stefano Belbo«
Co-director with Renate Sami
Portrait of the writer Cesare Pavese
60 min. 16mm Prod. WDR/SWF
1984 »Zwei Bilder«
Screenplay and actress
Cinema short film 35mm. Director: Rudolf Thome
Featuring: Rüdiger Vogler, Petra Seeger
Produced with assistance from the German Interior Ministry
Classified as: "particularly valuable" by the FBW (a German public-service
film grading organization)
1980 »Schule im 3. Reich«
Co-director with Jürgen Heiter
Documentary about the education system in the Third Reich.
45 min. Prod. WDR
1980 »Der Bund Deutscher Mädel«
Director
Documentary about the Nazi girls' organization (the girls' equivalent to the Hitler Youth)
45 Min. Prod. WDR
1979 »Gsellmanns Augenfutter«
Co-director with Jürgen Heiter
Portrait of an Austrian farmer, who spent 25 years building a "world machine" from
garbage and kitsch.
Documentary, 45 min. Prod. WDR
Teaching
2007
Workshop / Kunstakademie (Art Academy) Munich
"Oneself" in art
The link between biography and artistic creativity
1996/97
Non-established part-time teaching post at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe/Medienkunst (Karlsruhe Design Academy/Media Art)
Course: "From idea to production. Working with public-service television."