Cordelia Dvorák played violine and viola since her early childhood and earned her first money as a violist in an operetta orchestra. Later she studied literature, philosophy and theater in Munich and Paris, as well as photography at the Ostkreuz School in Berlin.
She is the author, director and (co)producer of award-winning, international documentary film productions and has also worked as a director, set- and costume designer in numerous opera, theater and dance productions (including 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 in Mexico City, where she lived for more than ten years and developed and produced own theater-plays, which had several seasons at the Teatro Helénico and were invited to numerous international festivals. In cooperation with the Goethe Institute she was invited to international workshops and masterclasses and has held various guest professorships for Visual Dramaturgy (amongst others at the UDK Berlin, at the Instituto de Bellas Artes and 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 Seville).
She is a member of the juryFICG Festival International de Cine in Guadalajara, Mexico, desIt'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, DEUTSCHE BÜHNE and the AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL.
After living & working in Paris, Milan and Mexico City, Cordelia Dvorák lives now primarily 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
Female artist scholarship for Film- and Video-Art Berliner Senat
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, Radio Canada, TV Unam
Canal22, DEFA, CNC, PROCIREP, 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
in collaboration with the Gallery for Contemporary Art GAK, the Federal Center for Political Education and the Goethe Institute / 2010
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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
festival invitations
Idfa Amsterdam / Doc Leipzig / Hotdocs Toronto / 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)
guest author and columnist
10vor8 / FAZ
10nach8 / DIE Zeit: Frauen schreiben. persönlich.politisch.polemisch
Humboldt
Art Value
Amnesty International Journal
Deutsche Bühne