Doris Dörrie

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Doris Dörrie (born 26 May 1955 in Hannover) is a German film director and producer, and author.

She completed her secondary education (her "Abitur") at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in Film Studies, in the Drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied at the New School of Social Research in New York. She worked odd jobs in cafés and as film presented in New York's Goethe House In 1975, back in Germany, she began to study at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (School for Television and Film) in Munich, and wrote film reviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she was also assistant editor. Subsequently Dörrie worked as a volunteer for various television stations, and filmed short documentaries.

Films she has directed include:

Men... (Männer...) (1985), the most-seen German film that year, which launched her into the spotlight; starring: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Heiner Lauterbach, Ulrike Kriener
Money (Geld) (1989); starring: Billie Zöckler, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Sybille Waury
Paradise (Paradies) (1990); starring: Katharina Thalbach, Heiner Lauterbach, Sunnyi Melles
Me and Him (1989); starring: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Green, Kelly Bishop, Carey Lowell
Happy Birthday, Türke (1992); starring: Hansa Czypionka, Meret Becker, Joachim Król
Nobody Loves Me (Keiner Liebt Mich)(1994); starring: Maria Schrader, Joachim Król
Am I Beautiful (Bin ich schön?) (1998); starring: Franka Potente, Uwe Ochsenknecht
Enlightenment Guaranteed (2002), starring the actors from Men...

How To Cook Your Life (2007), a documentary about Zen chef Ed Brown

[edit] Further reading

Joglekar, Yogini. "Ethnic Noir in Post-Wall Germany: Happy Birthday, Turke! (Dörrie 1991)." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 24.2 (Winter 2006): 17-29.