Claudia Wolscht (born 13 December 1960) is a German film editor.[1]

Claudia Wolscht at the Deutschen Akademie für Fernsehen awards in 2017

Life

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Born in Bad Honnef, she studied social pedagogy and in 1986 assisted on the film Metropolis in Cologne.[2] From 1988 to 1992 she gained experience as an assistant film editor and took a course in Avid-Media Composer.[3] She has worked as a film editor for cinema and TV since 1993 on over 35 productions. She lives and works in Cologne.

Awards

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She won the 2010 German TV Prize (in the category "Best Multi-Part Work") her work on the series Im Angesicht des Verbrechens, which the following year also won her the Grimme-Preis (Fiction). She also won the 2017 German Television Prize and an award from the Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen (in the Best Editing category) for Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians [de] (ARD/WDR). She also received a 2021 German Television Prize for her work on the historical drama Fabian: Going to the Dogs.[4]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "IMDB entry".
  2. ^ (in German) "filmportral.de entry".
  3. ^ (in German) "Claudia Wolscht] on Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e. V. (BFS)".
  4. ^ (in German) Tweet von @Filmpreis (accessed 1 October 2021).