2009 ARD „Traumberuf Diplomat? Alltag in Deutschlands Botschaften”
Autorin & Regie
48 min. Dokumentation/Reportage
Author: Silke Gondolf
2009 Kenya
Nairobi, German Embassy, Mathara Slum, Kibera Slum, Slum Hospital Kibera
Meeting the street photographers of Nairobi. Samson, one of them, showing his work, his collection kept inside a shoe box.
2008 China
Beijing, Historical Hutong, Behai Park, German Embassy, Hefei
After the Olympics, China had changed. It was so much easier to travel and film now – but much harder to breathe.
2008 Spain
Gran Canaria
Filled with German and British package tour tourists, but beside that, wonderful nature to be discovered.
2008 Super RTL „Superhirne –von Natur aus genial: Brainmans Brüder”
Autorin & Regie
50 min. Reportage,
2007 Mali
Bamako, Segou, San, Mopti, Niger, San, Timbuktu, Essakane, Djenne, Dogon Country, Douentza, Festival au desert
Mali looks like a dry loaf of bread. People have cold hands and sweat at the same time.
Mali
Eine Reise im Jahr 2007 durch Bamako, Dogonland, Essakana, Timbuktu, Segou und Mopti. Staubig und trocken wie ein altes Brot, ein von allen Elementen vergessenes Land.
2007 WDR/ARD „Pinguin, Löwe & Co.”
Regie des Endschnitts und verantwortlich für die Senderabnahmen
102 Folgen à 48 min.
2007 VOX „Wildes Kinderzimmer”
Konzeptionierung & Regie Endschnitt
16 Folgen Dokusoap
2007 Malawi
Lilongwe, Karonga, Kasungu, Mzuzu, Malawi Lake
Malawi is a surprising African country. Malawi’s population is energetic, brave and people enjoy life.
2007 ARTE Expeditionen: „Malawi – die Wiege der Menschheit”
Autorin & Regie
52 min. Reportage
2006 Netherlands
Amsterdam
Christmas in Amsterdam – precious.
2006 Spain
Gomera
It is very difficult to find decent lunch in Spain around 1pm. Beautiful countryside, breathtaking road trips to the hills.
2006 India: Sikkim / Spiti / Lahaul
Sikkim, Spiti, Lahaul, Kinnaur, Kalpa, Donkhar, Thanadhar, Darjeeling, Shimla, Gangtok
If it smells intensely like cat, it is a snow leopard. I am not keen to see rare animals, which can potentially attack me.
2006 Poland
Krakow
Wintertime in Poland, foggy cobblestone streets.
2006 Bhutan
18 days on the road in 2006 – the last year Bhutan was under the rule of the Emperor, the Dragon King of Bhutan. Bhutan, a country with less than a million people, has a dress code, so called Ghos and Kiras – and lots of red rubber boots. Bhutan, worshipping the phallus an esoteric symbol for the Bhutanese. Ornate, wooden penises decorate doorways, hang off from rooftops and are painted on the sides of homes. They fend off evil spirits. Fresh weed is fed to Bhutan’s farm animals; it makes them slow and relaxed and they put on weight easily. Thimpu, Bhutan’s capital has human traffic lights, police officers dancing like ballerinas, regulating traffic. Bhutan also does not sell Coca Cola or similar sweet sins. The King fights Caries and Adipositas. Smoking is not allowed in all of Bhutan. Everything is under control and people willingly follow the rules. To call Bhutan paradise is to call an authoritarian regime Shangri-La.
2006 Bhutan
Paro, Phuntsholing, Bagdogra, Punakha, Mongar, Lhuntshe, Bumthang, Trashingang, Trongsa
In 2006 the only country on earth where tourists have to pay a daily entrance fee.
2006 ARTE „Gesichter Europas: Die Riverlady von Rotterdam“
Autorin & Regie
52 min. Reportage
2005 India: Rajasthan
Jaipur, Udaipur, Jain Temple, Delhi
Cows between people, mixed with mobile street stalls, cars and beggars. Rajasthan is India in its essence.
2005 India: Kashmir
Kashmir: Srinagar, Dal Lake, Nagin Lake, Khimber, Dara, Palang
I was revisiting the old houseboats a colleague of mine photographed 20 years ago for a STERN reportage. The police in Kashmir thought I am a spy. I got into trouble. And the big earthquake didn’t help the situation either.
2005 India: Ladakh
Changthang, Tso Moriri, Tso Khar, Karzok, Alchi, Lamayuru, Hemis, Spituk, Shey, Thikse, Leh Gompa
People know days and seasons, but they do not know hours, minutes or seconds. And they have never seen shoe laces – I made people stop and touch my shoes. They only wear felt boots, no laces there.
2005 KIKA „Platz für Helden“
Executive Producer
13 teilige Dokusoap
2004 Namibia
Windhoek, Otjiwarongo, Usakos, Tsumeb, Swakopmund, Etosha Pan, Walvis Bay
Etosha Pan feels like a drive through an endless zoo. The Namib Desert is threateningly easy accessible and dangerous – and breathtaking beautiful.
2004 China
Peking
China had become my third home, away from home. China changed over the last 10 years. The traditional Beijing Hutongs have almost completely disappeared, ring roads were added and the air is even more unbearable.
2004 Australia
East Coast Australia: Coolangatta, Fraser Island, Bundaberg, Brisbane
Getting stuck in the sands of Fraser Island with a bad car, seeing sharks cruise close to the beach and green bees fly. Australia has the best Ginger Ale, the most poisonous animals and the nicest coasts. It is just a bit boring.
2004 RTL „Ich bin ein Star, holt mich hier raus“
Series Producer
Reality TV Serie – erste Staffel in Deutschland und Australien
2003 USA
Manhattan
Tankman, building the watertowers of Manhattan.They stand at the crest of the New York skyline like rustic, weathered sentinels. Their design has changed little in more than a century, and though they resemble a relic from a forgotten time, wooden water tanks remain a fixture of the cityscape.
2003 Hungary
Budapest, Tot
Budapest has the nicest café houses and a laid back atmosphere, lots of small mom and pop stores with local specialties, boot makers on every corner.
2003 ZDF Abenteuer Wissen: „Schießen oder nicht? Tötungshemmung”
Autorin & Regisseurin
52 min. Dokumentation
2003 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Filming inside the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Very rich and very poor Chinese people are gambling their money away.
2003 USA
Utah: Bonneville Salt Flats
Filming old men with fast cars. Motorcar racing has taken place at the salt flats since 1914. Racing takes place at part of the Bonneville Salt Flats known as the Bonneville Speedway.
2003 PRO7 “TERRALUNA”
Autorin & Regie
5 x 28 min. Reportagen für Janus TV GmbH in Asien und den USA
2002 Training von Internews Journalisten
Consulting & Training von Internews Journalisten
2001 France
Paris
Winter in Paris.
2001 USA
San Francisco
Berkeley, Muesli and hippie town. Going everywhere with a car. Hiking in the mountains. Too scared to get on a flight to NYC, after Sep 11th. The terrorist attack on the WTC had changed everything for me.
2001 Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto, Oze
After Sep 11th – in Kyoto the world was as peaceful and beautiful as always. I was stuck in Japan. Not being able to get a flight back home to New York.
2001 Drive across the Himalayas
Drive across the Himalayas from Kathmandu to Lhasa
At a truck stop, on a small black and white TV screen I saw the World Trade Center in Manhattan collapse. I thought it was a bad joke.
2001 Nepal
Kathmandu, Pokara, Fewa Lake, Sagarkot, Pashna, Nagarkot, Putan, Baktapur
Kathmandu got taken over by young, busy tourists and lazy cows.
2001 China
Peking, Chengdu, Chongching, Kunming, Lijiang, Guilin, Mt Emai, Yaoshan, Dali, Leshan, Baoshen, Dazu
China is a huge and very diverse country. There is not “one” China, but one time zone, to enhance national unity.
2001 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
After a long journey through mainland China a treat.
2001 Lhasa གཙུག་ལག་ཁང༌། Tibet
The Jokhang Temple is the most sacred Buddhist temple in Lhasa, Barkhor Square. Tibetans, in general, consider this temple the most important temple in Tibet. My trip and stay in Tibet were during September 11th 2001. The “War on Terror” started, military vehicles were moved to the Tibet/Afghan border. I was stuck in Tibet. No civil flights. Banks closed. The black plague broke out and I was seeing myself walking back to Germany.
2001 Tibet in Kodak Color
Lhasa, Nam Tso, Drive from Kathmandu: Zhangmu, Nyalam Pass, Lalung Pass, Tingri, Shigatse, Tashilunpo Monastery, Gyantse, Phalkor Monastery, Karola Pass, Khumbum Stupa, Yamdrok Tso Lake,Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Norbulinka Palace, Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery
The trip and stay in Tibet was during 9/11. The “War on Terror” started, heavy military vehicles drove close to the Afghan border. I was stuck in Tibet.
2000 Cuba
Havana, St. Lucia, Guanabo, Matanzas, Vinalae, La Palma, Cigar Factory, Malecon, Trip to the Beach, Matanzas
The US didn’t let me fly from New York directly to the “enemy” in 2000. I had to fly first to Canada and then to Havana.
2000 USA
New Orleans
Café du Monde Beignets: Bliss.
2000 South Africa
Johannesburg, Lapalala Wilderness
Rhinos everywhere, such curious and fast animals. They have a specialty: Rhinos poop all on the same spot – creating big stinky, well-organized mountains of manure.
2000 Botswana
Gabarone, Maun, Okavango Delta
The only way to travel through the Okavango River Delta is on horse back. Days of wilderness, living in a tent – with the threat of lions and hyenas.
1999 Belize
Hopkins, Ambergis Key, San Ignazio, Blue Cave, Punta Gorda, Dangriga, Belmopan, San Antonio
The Chicleros, the bubble-gum harvesters, took me through the jungle to collect rubber from the trees. The horses ate oranges.
1999 Guatemala
Tikal
Stairs to heaven and no one there. The place was almost completely empty when I visited!
1999 United Kingdom
London
Piccadilly Circus, buses, Hyde Park, pretty grass, snobbish people, horses, rain, feeling not British.
1998 Venezuela
Caracas, Merida, Condor Valley, Puerto Columbia, Pico Bolivar, Macuto Beach
Condors cut through the air. They make sounds like moving swords.