Ich lebe hier

Now it is time to settle in: to make the transition from spending the summer here to living here, and from vacationing here to working here. After the exhausting week with three premieres and a birthday, I have begun writing. The first chapter is about film director Andreas Dresen’s youth as a child of two parents involved in theater work, his amateur films, and the application process at the Academy for Film and Television. There is excellent source material in the form of interviews in the daily press, videotaped interviews, and essays written by Dresen himself. I am able to write the “skeleton” of the text, as well as everything about the creation of the amateur films and their reception. I will save an interview with Dresen himself until later in the year when I know exactly what I want to ask. I sent my “Konzept” to Dresen a month ago, and just this week he called me on my cell phone to say it looks wonderful and he’s 100% behind it. When I asked if he knew where I could see the amateur films, he said “They only in my possession. We’ll just have to have a showing at my place.” I have the text mostly completed, and will share my first draft with my advisor, the Film Academy President, next week.