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Lisa Wagner, director, Cologne
©Klara Harden

    Non-fictional movies as director

    YearTitleGenreDirectorProducerComment
    2023Dancing HeartbeatsDocumentaryLisa WagnerLichtblick Film GmbH [de]
    2022Friederike klopft an!Documentary Series, SWR [de]Lisa WagnerBentelevision GmbH
    2021Friederike klopft an!
    1 episode (Daria) with Klara Harden
    Documentary Series, SWR [de]MultipleBentelevision GmbH1 episode (Daria) with Klara Harden
    2020Fritschs PfuschDocumentaryLisa WagnerPulverfilm [de]
    2019Plan B - Alles im Fluss. Rettet unsere Gewässer!
    zusammen mit Annie Hofmann
    Report (series), ZDF [de]Lisa WagnerBerlin Producers Media GmbHzusammen mit Annie Hofmann
    2013Paper Man BilalShort DocumentaryLisa WagnerKHM Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln [de]

    Non-fictional movies in other activities

    YearTitleGenreDirectorProducerComment
    2023Dancing HeartbeatsDocumentaryLisa WagnerLichtblick Film GmbH [de]screenwriter together with Elke Brugger
    2020Fritschs PfuschDocumentaryLisa WagnerPulverfilm [de]screenwriter
    2020Fritschs PfuschDocumentaryLisa WagnerPulverfilm [de]producer
    2019Plan B - Alles im Fluss. Rettet unsere Gewässer!Report (series), ZDF [de]Lisa WagnerBerlin Producers Media GmbHscreenwriter zusammen mit Annie Hofmann
    2011Out of the DarknessDocumentary FeatureStefano LeviStefano Levi, Photography & Film1st AD (local system) Co-Autorin/Regieassistentin
    2011Out of the DarknessDocumentary FeatureStefano LeviStefano Levi, Photography & Filmco-writer

    Film awards

    YearFilmAwardCategory 
    2024Dancing HeartbeatsAchtung Berlin Film Festival [de]DocumentaryNominated
    2020Fritschs PfuschAchtung Berlin [de]DokumentarfilmNominated

    Training

    Year 
    2011 to 2015KHM - Academy of Media Arts Cologne [de]

    Basic data

    NationalityGerman
    LanguagesEnglishFrenchItalian
    EducationLisa Wagner studied Film and Media Sciences, Pedagogy and French (M.A.) in Germany, Italy, France and Canada. In 2011, she started postgraduate fictional and non-fictional directing-classes at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She is working as a freelance filmmaker developing her own documentary projects for cinema and German TV.

    She is co-author of the award-winning documentary Out of the Darkness (2011, 82 min, FBW Prädikat "Besonders wertvoll”), which was her first feature documentary shot in extreme conditions. Her Debut "Fritsch's Pfusch", feature cinema documentary about the renowned theatre director Herbert Fritsch, was screened at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Dokfest Munich and Achtung Berlin. Currently, Lisa finished her feature cinema documentary "Dancing Heartbeats", sponsored by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, WDR, BKM, FFA, DFFF.
    Immediate working areaCologne
    1st residence (federal state or country)Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia