Christian Baudissin

Born 1956. Childhood in France, and later in Ethiopia. Most of the time thereafter was spent in Bavaria. Accepted 1979 by the Munich Film School (Hochschule fuer Fernsehen & Film - HFF), Dept. of Documentary Films and TV Journalism. Graduation 1984, then worked in various TV and cinema productions on many levels of production. Soon also produced, wrote and directed films of varying lengths (from 30 to 90 minutes) for public German television like ZDF, WDR, SWF and BR. Since 2000 Baudissin works for Bavarian TV/BR as a commissioning editor in the Documentary Films Dept. The programmes produced are a weekly series of 45 mins. biographical documentaries and a number of feature length documentaries in irregular intervals. Main focus is on humans beings, particularly persons who find themselves "jammed in" - by chance or their own doing - between cultures, struggles, powers or other personalities who dominate their lives. What circumstances do to people or how they find a way out of them - or get conquered by them. Baudissin:"... this never means exploiting other people's plight, but trying to convey what they are going through."