About
Karin Heberlein trained at Central School of Speech & Drama in London. She worked for various theatres in the UK, collaborated and performed with a number of ensembles and toured festivals around the globe. In 2013 she received a scholarship for the Drehbuchwerkstatt at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich. Since then she has worked as a writer and director. SAMI, JOE AND I, her first feature film, opened in Swiss cinemas in 2021. In 2022 she was part of the publication Filmstern für Dich, a portrait of Swiss female directors.
She is a member of ARF/FDS (the Swiss association of directors/writers) and the European Film Academy.
Filmography:
2022
EINFACH NINA – SIMPLY NINA, Degeto, ARD, Schiwago Films, Berlin
director, written with Angela Gilges and Christopher v.Delhaes
ARD MEDIATHEK
2021/2
BLINDER FLECK, Tatort Zurich, Crime series, SRF and ARD, C-Films Switzerland
writer (with Claudia Puetz)
to be broadcast in 2023
2021/2
SEILSCHAFTEN, Tatort Zurich, Crime series, SRF and ARD, C-Films Switzerland
writer (with Claudia Puetz)
to be broadcast in 2023
2020
SAMI, JOE AND I, Feature Film, Abrakadabra Films Switzerland
director and writer
Several Shorts and Image films over the last years and she also worked extensively with teenagers on film and theatre projects, in England as well as in Switzerland. She was a jury member for the ecumenical film award @ Zurich Film Festival 2021 and was the jury president of the short film competition @ Iranian Film Festival Zurich 2021.
She is a member of the European Film Academy, the Swiss association of directors and writers ARF/FDS (https://arf-fds.ch) and took part in the publication Filmstern für DiCH, a portrait of Swiss female directors.
Awards
Edith Lando Peace Prize (for Simply Nina), R2R int Film Festival Vancouver 2023
European Audience Award, ARTEKino Festival (for SJI) 2021
Montgomery Award, Emerging director 2021, CICCF 2021
1st Prize, Best Live Action Feature Film, (for SJI) Chicago Int. Children & Youth Film Festival 2021
Winner Förderpreis der DEFA Stiftung, Schlingel Int. Film Festival 2021
Special Mention YoungAbout, (for SJI) Int. Film Festival Bologna 2021
Winner Ecumenical Film Award Zurich (for SJI) 2020
Winner Audience Award (for Sami, Joe and I) Zurich Film Festival 2020