Claudia Garde
{{short description|German film director and screenwriter (born 1966)}}
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|birth_place = Bremen, West Germany
|occupation = Film director, screenwriter
|years_active = 1998–present
|awards = Grimme-Preis-Nominations; VFF TV-Movie Award
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Claudia Garde is a German film director and screenwriter. She has worked for the German TV-series Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, Flemming or the series Tatort.
Early life and education
Claudia Garde was born in Bremen, West Germany.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
She studied at acting schools in London and Paris after graduating from high school.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
From 1992 to 1993 Garde worked in France as a theatre actress at various theatres before returning to Germany to study writing and directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. She acquired her diploma in directing in 1998 with the feature film Die Man Liebt....{{cn|date=March 2025}}
Career
In the year 2000 she began her career as a director and screenwriter with several television films.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tbQrAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Claudia+Garde%22+bremen Claudia Garde.] In: Zitty, Band 33, Ausgaben 1–4., Zitty Verlag GmbH, 2009, S. 104{{fails verification|date=March 2025}}{{better source|date=March 2025}} and TV series. So she worked on episodes of series such as Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall, Doktor Martin, and the series Flemming.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
She has also directed several episodes of the Tatort series, where shas worked with actors like Axel Milberg, Klaus J. Behrendt, and Simone Thomalla.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
She directed the TV movie Die Frau am Ende der Straße (2007), with Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt in the leading roles.[http://www.nwzonline.de/film-fernsehen/wenn-der-soziale-druck-ins-unermessliche-steigt_a_5,1,683941268.html Claudia Garde.] In: Wenn der soziale Druck ins Unermessliche steigt – „Die Frau am Ende der Straße“ – ARD-Melodram um eine psychisch Kranke., NWZ, 2007
In 2021 and 2022 she directed the six-part political thriller TV series set in post-war Germany, Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde, starring Mercedes Müller in the lead role, along with Max Riemelt, Sebastian Blomberg, Martin Wuttke, and a number of other well-known German actors.{{cite web | title=High-end historical series Bonn now in post-production | website=Cineuropa | date=23 March 2022 | url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/423643/ | access-date=1 March 2025}}{{cite web | last=Wiseman | first=Andreas | title=Leonine Picks Up Distribution Rights To Odeon Fiction Spy Series 'Bonn' | website=Deadline | date=17 August 2021 | url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/leonine-picks-up-distribution-rights-to-odeon-fiction-spy-series-bonn-1234815566/ | access-date=1 March 2025}} The series was broadcast on Das Erste in January 2023.{{cite web | title=Alte Freunde, neue Feinde | website=WDR | date=20 January 2023 | url=https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das_erste/2023/01/20230117_bonn_alte_freunde_neue_feinde.html | language=de | access-date=1 March 2025}}
Other activities
In addition to her work as a director for film and television, Garde has also worked as a freelance writer and lecturer.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
She has collaborated with British composer Colin Towns.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
Awards and nominations
- The Tatort episode "Kindstod" was awarded the Golden Gong and received two German TV Awards.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
- 2006: VFF TV-Movie Award for the TV-Movie Die Frau am Ende der Straße
- 2006: Grimme-Preis-Nomination for Die Frau am Ende der Straße
- 2010: Grimme-Preis-Nomination in the category Fiction for Flemming with Gregor Edelmann{{cn|date=March 2025}}
Selected filmography
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- 1998: ...die man liebt...
- 2000: Ich beiß zurück (TV film)
- 2001: Paulas Schuld (TV film)
- 2001: Tatort: Kindstod (TV series episode)
- 2002: Mehr als nur Sex (TV film)
- 2003: Ehespiele (TV film)
- 2003: Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall: Yesterday (TV series episode)
- 2004: Tatort: Stirb und werde (TV series episode)
- 2005: Tatort: Borowski in der Unterwelt (TV series episode)
- 2006: Die Frau am Ende der Straße (TV film)
- 2006: Tatort: Schattenspiele (TV series episode)
- 2007: Auf dem Vulkan (TV film)
- 2007: Tatort: Investigativ (TV series episode)
- 2008: Tatort: Borowski und das Mädchen im Moor (TV series episode)
- 2009: Ein Sommer mit Paul (TV film)
- 2009: Doktor Martin (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2009: Flemming (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2010: Tatort: Borowski und der vierte Mann (TV series episode)
- 2012: Bankraub für Anfänger (TV film)
- 2012: Tatort: {{Interlanguage link multi|Dinge, die noch zu tun sind (Tatort)|de|3=Tatort: Dinge, die noch zu tun sind|lt=Dinge, die noch zu tun sind}} (TV series episode)
- 2014: Tatort: Frühstück für immer (TV series episode)
- 2014: Das Glück der Anderen (TV film)
- 2015: Tatort: Niedere Instinkte (TV series episode)
- 2015: Tatort: Borowski und die Rückkehr des stillen Gastes (TV series episode)
- 2017: Eine gute Mutter (TV film)
- 2017: {{Ill|Das Nebelhaus|de}} (TV film)
- 2019: Verliebt in Valerie (TV film)
- 2019: {{Ill|Ottilie von Faber-Castell – Eine mutige Frau|de}} (TV film)
- 2023: {{Ill|Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde|de}} (TV miniseries)
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References
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External links
- {{official|http://claudiagarde.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0306610}}
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