Henriette Kaiser

Henriette Kaiser (born 30 December 1961) is a German writer, film director and journalist.

Life edit

Born in Munich, Kaiser grew up as the daughter of Susanne and Joachim Kaiser. Even before her Abitur in 1981 she started a classical singing education and finished it in 1983. She then moved to Berlin and studied modern German literature, philosophy and musicology at the TU Berlin . Back in Munich, she began studying at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1988 and graduated in 1997. In 1998 followed her first major direction for the ZDF crime serial Ein Fall für zwei.

Kaiser's first book Schlussakkord (2006) deals with the death of her friend Katja. It received the honorary prize of the Deutscher Hospiz- und PalliativVerband [de]. In her documentary film Musik im Fahrtwind^[1] and the accompanying book "Ich bin der letzte Mohikaner" she deals with the biography of her father, the cultural critic Joachim Kaiser.

Kaiser lives in Munich and also works as a journalist. Among other things she writes for the Jüdische Allgemeine [de] and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Work edit

Films edit

1988: Ödipussi, Regie-Volontariat
1997: Roter Tango (Kurzfilm), text and direction, Prädikat wertvoll
1998: Ein Fall für zwei (ZDF), direction
2000: Mein absolutes Lieblingslied (ZDF)
2006: Musik im Fahrtwind (BR), text and direction

Books edit

2006: Schlussakkord.^[2] (Deuticke Verlag, 2008 als TB bei btb, 2014 bei Herder)
2008: Ich bin der letzte des Mohikaner.^[3] (Ullstein, 2009 als TB bei List)
2012: Sprechen wir über Musik (Siedler) coauthor
2014: Filme. Macherinnen.^[4] (text and criticism) Interviews with 41 media-creative women.
List of 6 publications in the German National Library.^[5]