Miriam Dehne

Miriam Dehne (born February 23, 1968, in Düsseldorf), is a German film director and screenwriter. Miriam Dehne grew up in Düsseldorf. After graduation, she moved to Berlin. She completed her design studies at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK, today UDK) under Professor Wolfgang Joop. The first Super 8 films about the scene in Berlin in the 1980s / 1990s were made during her studies. She attends the masterclasses of Mark W. Travis, Judith Weston and Keith Cunningham (among others). Berlin Stories, her first full-length feature film, premiered at the Berlinale in 2005, is honored by the Confédération Internationale des Cinémas D’Art et Essai and receives a nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Prize). In addition to her work for the cinema and television, Miriam Dehne creates as the author (screenplay written together with Jackie Thomae) and director the first German web-fiction format They call us Candy Girls for which she receives the ITPV Award in 2008. The feature film Little Paris is released in cinemas in 2009, also being nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis and has its international premiere at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.

Her theater play Mom's Room (Laboratory Arts Collective / Christopher Guy Showroom in Los Angeles) premiered in 2014. The music film B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin, for which she is shooting the re-enactments, has its premiere at the Berlinale (Panorama) and receives in 2015 the Defa Foundation's Heiner Carow Prize for the successful combination of fiction and documentation. In the same year Dehne is a guest lecturer for acting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, where she works as the guest director of the film Falling Stars. The film received two awards (2017 Wildsound Female Feedback Toronto Film Festival, Best Cinematography (Florian Baumgärtner) and 2018 GWCIFF New York, Best Narrative Short )

As an author, she writes screenplays, short stories and plays. Her shortstory Lady Luck was awarded by the Rheinsberger Autorinnenforum. In 2014, her play Mom's Room premiered in Los Angeles (Laboratory Arts Collective / Christopher Guy Showroom). Here she worked with the artist collective The Laboratory Arts Collective, which was founded by the actor and producer Nigel Daly (Screen international). Together with the Hotel Soho House Berlin Dehne founded the women and film network Women and Film Salon (2011–2017) with regular events taking place at the Berlinale. After 2017, the engagement in cooperation with the Sir Savigny Hotel named Female Film Cocktail continued as part of the Berlinale.

Dehne is a member of the Deutsche Film Akademie (German Film Academy) and Pro Quote Film. From 2013 to 2016, she was a jury member of the Prize for Young Cinematography by the German Film Academy and the Neue Nationalgalerie, and from 2017 to 2022 she is a jury member of the short film jury of the BKM (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).