Maja Classen (born 28 December 1974 in

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) is a German

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

, primarily known for her 2006 documentary on the

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techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

scene, '' Feiern''.

Biography

She studied

film production Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...

at the ''Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam "Konrad Wolff"'' (The Konrad Wolff University of Film and Television, in

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, Germany). During her time there, she produced several short films, including the

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

'' Feiern'' (2006); this film was a portrait of the

scene in the early 2000s, composed primarily of interview footage. The film was premiered at

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in Berlin in 2006, made the circuit of film festivals, and was released on DVD in the same year. She also completed her studies in 2006 with the documentary film ''Osdorf'', a sensitive portrait of young first- and second-generation

immigrant Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

men with long police records; this film was released in 2007 and also made the rounds of film festivals. Maja Classen lives and works in Berlin.

Filmography

* 2006: '' Feiern'', documentary film (screenwriter, director) * 2007: '' Osdorf'', documentary film (screenwriter, director) * 2009: ''24 Hours Berlin'', television documentary (director)

External links

*
Maja Classen's artist webpage

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