Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
2003
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2003
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Dr. Katharina Schaefer
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Address:
Finkenau 35, Hamburg, 22299
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Country:
Germany
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Anja SchmuckTelephone:00494041346863Email:a.schmuck@hamburgmediaschool.comCILECT Contact Person:Managing Director: Dr. Katharina SchaeferTelephone:+49 40 413 468 0Email:info@hamburgmediaschool.comCILECT Contact Person:Coordinator Film Studies Patricia SteberTelephone:+49 40 413 468 51Email:film@hamburgmediaschool.com
Mission & Strategy
The Hamburg Media School GmbH, founded in 2003, is a public-private partnership and a beacon project of the Hamburg Authority for Science and Research, the University of Hamburg, the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and the Hamburg Media School Foundation.
Since the beginning of the joint initiative, HMS has been training particularly talented young people for the leap into the artistic, economic and academic centers of the digital and media industry, thereby strengthening Hamburg as a location.
Degree Areas
Film
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Degree Awarded
MA
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Training Type
Full-Time
Tuition Fees
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Residents
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Non-Residents
Number of Students
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Applicants (Male/Female/Other)
68/47
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Enrolled Students (Male/Female/Other)
12/12
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Students Total (Male/Female/Other)
12/12
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International Students incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
1/1
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Graduates incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
151/115
Admission Requirements
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Portfolio & Interview
Yes
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Agreements with Foreign Governments
No information
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High Institution Matriculation
Yes
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Recognized Prior Expertise
Yes
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Talent Entrance Exams
Yes
Language of Studies
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Language of Studies
German
Student Practical Work Obligations
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Fiction Short Films (5-15 min.)
2
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Fiction Short Films (15-30 min)
1
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Documentary Films (under 30 min)
1
Graduation Obligations per Student
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Practical Work
Yes
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Written Thesis
Yes
Budget Parameters
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Total Amount from School`s Budget Allocated to Production Annually
differs from year to year
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Average Graduation Practical Work Budget per student
€8000
Commercial Film
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Degree Awarded
MA
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Training Type
Full-Time
Tuition Fees
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Residents
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Non-Residents
Number of Students
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Applicants (Male/Female/Other)
5/6
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Enrolled Students (Male/Female/Other)
2/4
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Students Total (Male/Female/Other)
2/4
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International Students incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
0/1
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Graduates incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
7/5
Admission Requirements
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Portfolio & Interview
Yes
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Agreements with Foreign Governments
No information
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High Institution Matriculation
Yes
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Recognized Prior Expertise
Yes
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Talent Entrance Exams
Yes
Language of Studies
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Language of Studies
German
Student Practical Work Obligations
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TV Commercials
1
Graduation Obligations per Student
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Practical Work
Yes
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Written Thesis
Yes
Budget Parameters
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Total Amount from School`s Budget Allocated to Production Annually
differs from year to year
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Average Graduation Practical Work Budget per student
€2000
Key Teaching Staff
Sigrid Andersson
With the great desire to become a director, Sigrid Andersson first completed an acting training from 1981-1985. Her goal was to understand and experience the work of an actor from the ground up.
For a time she did both directing and acting. After a successful audition, she was invited by George Shdanoff at the end of 1986 to attend his courses at the Los Angeles Theater Company. She enjoys the privilege of being the only one to have been trained as a film coach by him over two years. George Shdanoff was a longtime collaborator and friend of Michael Chekhov and coached many Hollywood greats. For more than 10 years she attended his master class again and again.
When she returned to Germany at the end of the 1980s, she had to realize that the profession of film coach was not even known here. Therefore, she continued her career as a theater director, which eventually included over 50 productions. At the same time, for 20 years she developed the “Andersson System” (patented in 2010), which provides directors and actors with absolutely reliable tools for their role work and acting.
In 2002 she founded the “Gas station – for artists to refuel”, in which she and her teammates created a room for daily training, filming and casting preparations and, above all, for further training. Since then she has been able to convey the “Andersson System” to over 800 actors and directors and has supported them in their shooting and casting preparations for numerous cinema and television films. Since 2007, Sigrid Andersson has trained 16 colleagues to become “Acting Coaches according to the Andersson System”.
“I am very happy to share my knowledge with the future directors of HMS and to be able to work with you!”
Kai Ivo Baulitz
The actor and author Kai Ivo Baulitz has been part of the Frank Betzelt coaching team since 2005. He advises actors, production companies, authors and directors. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen in the acting department, at the Hamburg Film School “Hamburg Media School” and at the Academy for Performing Arts in Baden-Württemberg.
Rainer Bellenbaum
Rainer Bellenbaum is a film and media scientist. 1985 MA with Joachim Paech. 1986/87: Scientific film documentation at the University of Osnabrück. 1990-1992: short films for the International Short Film Festival, etc. 1993-1999: authorship for ZDF
and Deutsche Welle TV. Since 2000: Freelance journalistic work. 2010-2011: Fellowship for film and art theory at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck. Since 2013: Lectureships at universities in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg. Lüneburg, Stuttgart, Vienna, etc. 2018: workshop cooperation with Alexander Kluge as part of his exhibition “Pluriversum. The Poetic Power of Theory” at Belvedere 21, Vienna
Publications (selection):
2022: Transports and Transfers in Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas Films. In: Martin Beck et al. (ed.): Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique. Leipzig: Spector Books. 2016: The Rehearsal in Film: From the Focus on Results to a Space of Experience, in Sabeth Buchmann et al. (eds.), Putting Rehearsal to the Test, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Berlin: Sternberg Press. 2016: The filmed word – between determination, ambiguity and visual mode. In: Halle für Kunst und Medien (Hg.): Words as doors in language, art and film. Vienna, Graz: publishing house for modern art. 2013: Cinematographic Action. From the film avant-garde to the exhibition film Berlin: Bbooks/PoLYpen.
Rainer Blank
Rainer Blank works as a freelance author, director and video journalist in Hamburg. He develops and realizes documentaries and reports, is a video journalist and conveys the advantages of mobile reporting.
After studying social sciences (sociology, psychology, political science) in Hamburg, Lyon and Barcelona, he began a traineeship at NDR. There he worked for several years as a TV author for the media magazine “ZAPP” and the satirical magazine “extra3” – also as an editor. He then founded the production company “freeeye.tv” with two colleagues, which developed formats such as “Herr Eppert sucht…” (zdf_neo) or “With 80,000 questions around the world” (NDR / WDR, nominated for the Grimme Prize). and produced. As an author, he has specialized in long formats such as “MARE TV”. As a VJ he realizes video blogs, among other things.
Rainer Blank deals with new narrative forms and formats for moving images – like in an unusual way and away from the norm.
Successful Graduates
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Influenced by theatre throughout her youth, Katja Benrath pursued that career in her early professional life. She became a theatre tailor and worked for Pina Bausch’s dance company. Following, she completed her studies in Singing and Acting in Vienna, Austria where she also discovered filmmaking. Her first short films (“Babydoll”, “No one pukes in Heaven” & “Tilda”) have been playing successfully on many international festivals. During her master studies at Hamburg Media School she directed “Where have you been” and “Secrecies”. Watu Wote, her graduation project, is her first film based on a true story.
Özgür Yıldırım
- Director
- Writer
- Producer