|  Doris
Dörrie was born in 1955 in Hanover. She attended drama, acting,
and film at University of the Pacific in Stockton, and the School
for Social Research in New York (1973-75) after graduating from
high school.
Like Wenders, she was a student at the Hochschule für Fernsehen
und Film in Munich. Her first feature Straight through the
Heart in 1983 was followed by Im Innern des Wals
1984. Her biggest success and the kickstart of her career was
Männer.../ Men..., released in 1985 - a national
and international successs.
Some said that Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death in 1982 was the
end of the New German Cinema, others say it was the release of
Doris Dörrie's comedy.
In any case, the mid-80s marked a clear shift from the aims and
goals of the New German Cinema towards a more entertaining and
commercially succesful form of filmmaking. Men.. was
filmed on tight budget of $400,000. The twenty initial prints
were soon expanded to 230 and Men... became the first
major box office success for a female director from Germany since
the 60s. It actually became the most successful German film of
1986 with five million admissions in Germany and six million worldwide.
Margarethe von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg, released in the
same year, received the Best Film award in Cannes. It had a total
audience of 519,000. Men... opened in New York and made
$ 10 million.
Following her success with Men..., she released Paradies/Paradise
in 1986 and Me and Him in 1989 (which went straight to
video). Happy Birthday, Türke opened in 1992. It
is based on a novel by Jakob Arjouni who since then has released
a trilogy of novels focusing on a Turkish private eye working
in Frankfurt/Main, encountering daily racism and xenophobia. The
wonderful Nobody Loves Me (1994) won the Film Strip in
Gold at the German Film Awards for Maria Schrader (who became
more famous with Aimee and Jaguar) and was followed by the episodic
Bin ich schön? / Am I Beautiful in 1998.
Doris Dörrie has filmed all her feature films with the same
crew. Her husband and cameraman, Helge Weindler, died of cancer
in 1996 while shooting Bin ich schön?.
Her latest North American release is Enlightenment Guaranteed,
somewhat of a sequel to her biggest success, a Men II....
Uwe Ochsenknecht, Heiner Lauterbach, and Ulrike Kriener are
back to face their (mid-life) crises in the new millenium.
Doris Dörrie is also well-known as a writer of short stories
and novels. Some of her movies are based on her fiction.
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Doris
Dörrie (imdb)
Portrait
of Doris Dörrie
Nobody Loves Me
Keiner
liebt mich
Keiner
liebt mich (SZ)
Keiner
liebt mich (Rundschau)
Keiner
liebt mich (FAZ)
Cosi fan tutte
Doris
Dörrie bei Cinegraph
Doris
Dörrie bei Prisma
Doris Dörrie's Erleuchtung Garantiert
FemBio: Women of Hanover
New York Times: People
Wikipedia: Doris Dörrie (German)
Bibliography
Men..
Cast
and Crew
Uwe
Ochsenknecht Biographie
Baxter, Brian. "Men."
Films and Filming (Nov. 1986).
Cook, Pam. "Männer/Men." Monthly Film Bulletin
(Nov. 1986): 329-30.
Root, Jane. "In the Belly of the Whale and Sharing Flats
with Men: Doris Dörrie Discusses Her Researches with Jane
Root." Monthly Film Bulletin (Nov. 1986): 330-31.
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