Biographie
Born in Paris, France in 1956, Patricia Rommel had her breakthrough as an editor for Caroline Link's Beyond Silence (1996). Further collaborations with Link include Annaluise and Anton (1999), the Oscar®-winning film Nowhere in Africa (2001), A Year Ago in Winter (2008) and Morocco (2013).
Rommel was also responsible for the second German Oscar®-winning film in the last few years, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006). Since then, she has been working on international productions: The Last Station, Jane's Journey, The Tourist, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Eyes of a Thief, Umrika and Gloria.
Rommel has edited over 50 feature films and television projects. She began her career in the film industry in 1977, doing advertising films and dubbing productions. Since the early '80s she has been working as a freelance editor, working on features, as well as on documentaries, and has been teaching at several German film schools.
Rommel has received numerous nominations and awards for her work: For Wolfgang Becker's Life is All You Get (1997) she was nominated for the German Camera Award (Deutscher Kamerapreis), and won it in 2005 for Off Beat (Kammerflimmern). Other film credits include Nina Grosse's Fire Rider (Feuerreiter) (1997), Franziska Buch's Emil and the Detectives (2001), Romuald Karmakar's Nightsongs (2003), Christian Ditter's French for Beginners (2006). Her television credits include Dominik Graf's Doktor Knock, Dieter Wedel's My Old Friend Fritz (Mein alter Freund Fritz) and Maria von Heland's Suddenly Gina.
In 2009, Rommel received her second nomination for the German Movie Award for Caroline Link's film A Year Ago in Winter (Im Winter ein Jahr).
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Monteuse
Documentaires | |
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2010 |
Jane Goodall : Retour à Gombe |
2005 |
Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea |
1995 |
Goldhochzeit - 50 Jahre Ehe in Deutschland (téléfilm) |
Courts métrages | |
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2001 |
Gregors größte Erfindung |
1998 |
Playboys |