Judith Kaufmann

Judith Kaufmann, born 1962 in Stuttgart, grew up in in Berlin, where she studied at the Staatliche Fachschule für Optik und Fototechnik. She gathered her first experience as camera assistant for, among others, Gernot Roll and Thomas Mauch. Since 1991, she is Chief cinematographer.

Judith Kaufmann is counted among the most renowned German camera operators and has created many decorated films, from Vanessa Jopp's directorial debut Forget America (2000) via Andres Veiel's RAF drama If Not Us, Who? (2011) up to Georg Maas' Two Lives (2012) and Feo Aladag's Between Worlds (2013).

Twice she was awarded the Deutscher Kamerapreis for her cinematography: for Shattered Glass (2002), the first feature film by Chris Kraus, and for Feo Aladag's When We Leave (2009). For boxing drama Elephant Heart (2002) with Daniel Brühl she was awarded the Bayerischer Filmpreis, followed in 2006 by the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Bella Block: Die Frau des Teppichlegers.

Judith Kaufmann's more recent TV work includes Das letzte Stück Himmel (2007, director: Jo Baier), You Can Never Be Sure (2008, Nicole Weegmann), Das Ende einer Nacht (2012, Matti Geschonnek) and more recently Das Zeugenhaus (2014, Matti Geschonnek).

In 2012 she received the honorary award at the ceremony of the Deutscher Kamerapreis.

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