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CORDULA STADTER

Autorin / Regisseurin
Dokumentarfilm

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Geschichten, Storytelling, genau hinschauen, um das Große auch im Kleinen zu sehen - und den Menschen Raum zu geben, ihre eigene Geschichte zu erzählen. Das war schon immer meine Faszination.
 
Diese Leidenschaft für die großen Fragen des Lebens brachte mich zum Studium der Theater- und Medienwissenschaft und Philosophie nach Berlin und Erlangen, schließlich nach Argentinien, an die Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, zur Film-Regie. Neben Englisch und Französisch spreche ich seitdem auch Spanisch fließend.
 
Nach mehreren Engagements bei fiktionalen Produktionen in Argentinien und Deutschland, wechselte ich zur renommierten Produktionsfirma Gebrüder Beetz nach Hamburg als Producerin für internationale, prime-time Dokumentarfilme.
 
Seit 2013 bin ich als Autorin/Regisseurin mit meiner Firma "cocomotions" selbstständig und habe seitdem mehrere Dutzend Reportagen und Dokumentationen für die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender (ZDF, ARTE, NDR und SWR, etc.) in aller Welt realisiert.

Besonders interessieren mich neue dramaturgische und visuelle Herausforderungen, aussagekräftige Bilder und eben Geschichten. 

willkommen: Über mich

Seit 2019 realisiere ich neben zahlreichen Arbeiten für andere Programme
regelmäßig auch Filme für die Dokumentations-Reihen
ZDF Plan b und ARTE Re. 

willkommen: Zitat


Filme für andere Partner, unter anderem:
ARTE 360° Reportage (ehemals GEO), SWR, ZDFinfo, NDR, MDR, Servus TV

Cuba's Female Boxers
01:09
360 Grad Reportage (52/30min, ARTE, 2023, Co-Director: Joanna Michna)

Cuba's Female Boxers

Over 60 years female boxing had been banned in Cuba. Although, traditionally boxing is one of the most prestigious and successful sports of the island. Womens’ faces were considered to be too beautiful to be ruined by punches - according to government officials. But now, times have changed and Cuba sends its first female boxers to the Olympics...
Albania: The Shepherd's Voices
01:29
360 Grad Reportage (52/30min, ARTE, 2022)

Albania: The Shepherd's Voices

Bastri Limoj is a shepherd in the South-Albanian village Vranisht. Every summer he and a group of friends lead their animals up the mountains to the summer pastures, just as their ancestors did it for centuries wandering the whole Balkans with their flocks. However, during communist times all over Albania flocks were seized by the state leading to a rapid decline of this tradition. Nowadays, shepherds like Bastri have regained private property and livestock, but face the challenges of modern times. Bastri's youngest son Lucjano wanted to follow in his fathers' footstep, but was forced to leave the village for higher education in the city. As a mechanical engineer he comes back to help his dad as often as he can. But can he still imagine to continue the tradition and lead a shepherd's life for himself?
Germany's Sausages - What exactly do we eat?
01:39
SWR betrifft (45min, 2021)

Germany's Sausages - What exactly do we eat?

Germany is the home of sausage. Nowhere else in the world is the variety bigger and people eat that much sausage: 30 kilos per person/per year! The majority is not produced by handicraft butchers, but in huge factories, its taste, feel and look designed by the food industry. This documentary seeks answers to the question: What exactly do we eat?
The Golden Voices of Singapore
01:18
GEO Reportage (52/43min, ARTE, 2020)

The Golden Voices of Singapore

A bird as expensive as a car or even a house. This is reality among Singapore's bird lovers. The more beautiful the song of a bird, the higher its value. This status is reflected at the city's numerous bird singing contests. But there is also a downside to this "sport": the illegal trade with wild birds. Cordula Stadter teams up with environmental activists and bird breeders to explore this controversial tradition.
Nepal: The Curing Sound of Singing Bowls
01:23
GEO Reportage (52/43min, ARTE, 2019)

Nepal: The Curing Sound of Singing Bowls

They are forged with fire, metal and sweat - bowls that are said to have healing powers: the so-called "singing bowls"! Generations of healers all around the world trust in their vibrations - dealing with chronic pain, migraine and even with pregnancy. Their origins are in Nepal's bustling capital Kathmandu, where the metal bowls have been the source of meditation for generations. But does the promise of their healing power actually hold true?
Germany's Döner - What exactly do we eat?
01:33
SWR betrifft (45min, 2018)

Germany's Döner - What exactly do we eat?

Döner Kebap is fast food number one in Germany. Approximately 16.000 Döner restaurants are there in the country. Their turnover exceeds several millions of Euros. The film focuses on the success story of this fast food classic and examines on the backdrop of the rotten meat scandals of the past if this is still a problem of the industry today. What exactly is it that we eat?
The German Army and its Ministers of Defence
00:27
ZDFinfo (6x45min, 2016)

The German Army and its Ministers of Defence

This 6-episode series focuses on the history of the German Army, called "Die Bundeswehr", told from the character-driven perspective of selected Ministers of Defence. The three episodes about Franz-Josef Strauß, Manfred Wörner and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg were realized by author/director Cordula Stadter - presenting, among other stunning accesses, the first long TV-interview with Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg after his withdrawal from government in 2011.
Cocos Island - Paradise for sharks!?
01:22
GEO Reportage (52/43min, ARTE, 2016)

Cocos Island - Paradise for sharks!?

Cocos Island, approximately 400miles off Costa Rica's Pacific Coast is considered a paradise for sharks. Schools of hammerheads and various individuals of the notorious tiger shark call the island their home. But the hunters themselves are hunted down mercilessly. The shark fin trade has become a flourishing business and drives the predators close to the brink of extinction. Marine biologists Andrès and Ilena Zanella keep up the fight against illegal "finning" and for more marine reserves. This film accompanies them with their mission.
The Four Seasons
01:11
gebrueder beetz filmproduktion (20x45min, 2015 / MDR, SWR, NDR/Arte, ServusTV)

The Four Seasons

Four Seasons explores central Europe and its long forgotten traditions, revives customs and myths, and shows our native countryside from unfamiliar perspectives. Fascinating landscape photography in high quality HD, paired with spectacular Cineflex aerial photography, presents the nature and inhabitants of central Europe in never-before-seen richness of color. As the seasons change we visit different environments which, in their variety, are exemplary of a central European region: mountains, water, forests and meadows. We return to each of these habitats four times during the different seasons to show the way in which our protagonists' rhythm of life beats to the clockwork of nature. Cordula Stadter as an author/director is responsible for the episodes in France.
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