Cordelia Dvorák has played violine and viola since her early childhood and earned her first money as a violinist in an operetta orchestra. As musician she has also collaborated for many years at the CANTIERE INTERNATIONALE D'ARTE in Montepulciano, Italy, founded originally by German composer Hans Werner Henze.
Cordelia studied literature, philosophy, film and theater in Munich and Paris, as well as photography at the Ostkreuz School in Berlin.
She is the author, director and producer of award-winning, international documentary film productions and has also worked as a director,
set- and costume designer in more than 80 interntional opera-, theater- and dance productions (a.o. the Kammerspiele Munich, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Grand Théatre de Bordueax, the Opéra de Lausanne, the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon and the National Reisopera in the Netherlands).
In 2005 she founded the Theater-Cia Miranda and developed and produced theater-plays, which had several seasons at the Teatro Helénico and were invited to numerous international festivals.
She was invited to various guest professorships for Visual Dramaturgy, a. o. at the UDK Berlin, at the Instituto de Bellas Artes,
the Universidád Claustro de Sor Juana, as well as the CUT and CENTRO in Mexico City, at the Montlcairs State University New York,
at the Academy for Visual Arts in Hong Kong and the Centro Andaluz de Teatro in Sevilla
She is a Jury-member of the FICG Festival International de Cine in Guadalajara, Mexico, the It's all True Film Festival in Sao Paulo
and the International Festival for Contemporary Art and Animation, Olomoucs, CS.
As a guest author she writes for the FAZ, DIE ZEIT, CICERO, DEUTSCHE BÜHNE and the AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL.
After living & working in Paris, Milan and Mexico City, Cordelia Dvorák lives now mostly in Berlin.
studies
philosophy, literature, theatre & art history in Paris and Munich
photography at the Ostkreuzschule, Berlin
scholarships
script2film program Mediterranean Filminstitute
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator
Scholarship Berlin Senate for International Cultural Exchange
International curators scholarship of the Goethe Institute for Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexiko
Playwright-scholarship Vassar College Poughkeepsie / New York
Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA / Mexico
Fundación Bancomer / México City
Excellence program for art-professorship / UDK Berlin
lecturer and visiting professor
UDK Berlin University of the Arts
Montclair States University / New York
Academy of Performing Arts / Hong Kong
CAT Centro Andaluz de Teatro / Seville
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte, Mexico City
Universidád Claustro de Sor Juana / México City
CUT Centro Universitario de Teatro / México City
Centro School of Film, Television and FashionMéxico City
filmography
in coproduction with BBC, Arte, ZDF, NDR, Avrotros, France3, SVT, SRF, Medienboard, MDR, Radio Canada, TV Unam
Canal22, DEFA, CNC, PROCIREP, Fritt Ord Foundation, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Mémorial de la Shoa, Federal Center for Political Education a.m.o.
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Man muss nur überleben - the composer Berthold Goldschmidt / 1996
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Herbert Wernicke or the Geometry of the Opera / 1998
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Peter Greenaway - a horse drama / 2002
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Bailar para vivir - Salon Mexico / 2004
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Visiones desde la memoria: the female view from Latin America; Video installation
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John Berger or The of looking - John Berger ou la mémoire du regard / 2016
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Marceline. A woman. A century / 2018
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And Suddenly the Revolution has a Female Face / (in production)
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Quixottes Camera - Ten Letters from beyond Light / (in production)
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Chorus of Resistance - Twelve Fragments on Freedom / (in development)
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Angelas Landscapes / (in production)
festivals
Idfa Amsterdam / Doc Leipzig / Hotdocs Toronto / Berlinale / Rotterdam / DOKfest Munich / Kassel Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival / Ethnocineca Vienna / Mostra de Cine São Paulo / FICG Guadalajára, Méxiko
Big Sky Film Festival Montana, USA / Sarasota Film Festival, California / Through Women's Eyes Film Festival San Francisco
Cinéma Vérité Teheran / Festival International du Film sur l'Art FIFA, Montreal / É Toudo Verdade Festival Rio & São Paulo
International Festival for Contemporary Art and Animation, Olmouc, CS / EPOS TelAviv Festival for the Arts
Jewish Filmfestival New York / Jewish Filmfestival UK / Manaki Brothers Cinematographers Fimfestival / Channia Filmfestival
Écrans de Chine, Paris / Documentarist IDF Istanbul / New Zealand IFF / Festival Étonnants Voyageurs St. Malo, France
jury member
International ocumentary Film Festival It's all True São Paolo
Festival Internacional de Cine Guadalajára, Mexico
International Festival for Contemporary Art and Animation, Olomouc, CS
theatre, opera and dance productions
Kammerspiele Munich
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Opéra de Bordeaux
Grand Théâtre Lausanne
São Carlos Opera Lisbon
Nationale Reisopera, The Netherlands
HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
Kulturbahnhof Basel
Teatro Helénico Mexico City
theatre plays
Pessoas Patiencen, 2005
Un Mambo con La Catrina, 2009
Ulissas, mujeres urgentes, 2010
Ulissas-Odyssas, 2020
exhibitions
Palacio Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Museo de la Memoria, Santiago de Chile
Ciutadela, Mexico City
GAK Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen
H2O Berlin
Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
Bethanien, Berlin
Quadriennale Prague
publications
Passione Teatrale - Giorgio Strehler und das Theater, Henschel Verlag, Berlin, 1998
Eine unendliche Reise - Neue Theaterstücke aus Mexiko, Theater der Zeit, 2004
Le choix de la cuisine, in: Brecht aprés la chutte / confessiones, mémoires, analyses, L'Arche, Paris, 2005
On Art, Politics and Motorbikes: John Berger in Dialogue (in preparation)
Wenn du durch die Hölle gehst, dann geh weiter, Edition Foto.tapeta, 2024
guest author and columnist
10vor8 / FAZ
10nach8 / DIE Zeit
CICERO - Magazin für politische Kultur
Humboldt
Art Value
Amnesty International Journal
Deutsche Bühne