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Cultural scientist and journalist
Country of origin
Germany

Susanne Birck (*1969) studied Cultural Sciences and received a university degree as Magistra Artium. During her studies, her main subject was film history. Her master thesis is about the US-American Western movies by John Ford. She works at a district administration in northern Germany as a project manager for cross-border German-Danish co-operations. As a freelance journalist, she regularly attends the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in order to write film reviews and do interviews with filmmakers (published in an online magazine). Highlight in her journalist career was definitely to interview the Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö.

Festivals

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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