Malou Berlin
Malou Berlin was born in 1961 in Neckarsulm. After graduating from high school, she moves to Berlin in 1980 and is trained as a motor cycle mechanic at BMW. After work, she participates in writing classes on a regular basis and publishes narratives and short stories in anthologies and newspapers. In 2006, after moving to Brandenburg, she publishes her first novel and is invited to readings all over Germany. During her education at Filmarche e.V. in Berlin, she studies script writing, project and character development from 2006 to 2009. She works on several short film scripts and participates in the Dokumentarfilm AG. Currently, she is working on a new novel.
Films
- After the fire / Nach dem Brand50'
The successive uncovering of trauma experienced by the Turkish family of Arslan from the German town of Mölln. An annual family and community meeting commemorating the tragic day – the day of the fire that killed 3 family members. The survivors struggle to cope in every way possible. The film shows a specific example of human cruelty and stupidity (the perpetrator is a victim himself – a victim of family violence and neo-nazi ideology); it is also a universal story of coping with unjust trauma.
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