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Monika Treut is a German filmmaker, producer, and writer. She is best known for her documentaries and feature films, which often explore gender and sexuality. She has directed over 20 feature films and documentaries, including The Virgin Machine (1988), Female Misbehavior (1992), Gendernauts (1999), and Tigerwomen Grow Wings (2006).
Treut was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and studied at the University of Television and Film Munich. She has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz since 2000.
Treut has won numerous awards for her work, including the German Film Award for Best Documentary for Gendernauts in 1999, the Teddy Award for Best Documentary for Tigerwomen Grow Wings in 2006, and the German Film Award for Best Feature Film for The Stranger in Me in 2008.
Treut is currently 70 years old. She has a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m). Her physical stats are not available.
Treut is not married and does not have any children. There is no information available about her dating history or any affairs.
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6 April 1954 |
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6 April |
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Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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Germany |
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In a book written by Ya-chen Chen, an author known for her work regarding Chinese Feminism, there is a section of the book that mentions Monika Treut’s film, Ghosted. Chen praises Treut for her ability to, “…exceed not only the essentialist restriction of physiology but also the corporeality that ghosts lose after deaths…” Chen also says that Treut did a good job at portraying a variety of different Chinese Religions and their beliefs regarding ghosts.
* 2017 Honorary Award for lifetime achievement at the Tel Aviv LBGT Film Festival
Famous for her queer films, Treut also makes documentaries. Her films have explored many interests around the world. The subject matter varies from film to film; whether queer-themed, or about one woman's efforts to help street kids in Rio de Janeiro, or about the culinary arts of Taiwan—her documentaries find interesting, real people to focus on.
In The Raw and the Cooked, Treut travels around Taiwan, exploring its rich culinary tradtitions and their relationship to the island's unique culture. The film also seeks out people who attempt to create a sustainable food system through innovative projects. The film had its world premiere at the Culinary Film section of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2012.
Since 1990, Treut has been teaching, lecturing and curating retrospectives of her work at colleges across the United States (Vasser, Hollins, Dartmouth), at art institutes (SFAI) and at universities (IU Bloomington, UI Chicago, UC San Diego and Cornell U ).
During her studies at university in the mid-1970s she began working with video. She worked as a media associate in Marburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin. In 1984, Treut earned her doctorate degree in philology from the University of Marburg. That same year she founded Hyena Filmproduktion together with Elfi Mikesch, and began producing, writing, and directing independent feature films. The following year Treut made her feature film debut with Seduction: The Cruel Woman, a film that explored sadomasochistic sex practices. Treut also spent time in America during the 1980s. Traveling and working in San Francisco and New York City, Treut met and worked with Annie Sprinkle and Werner Schroeter, while also producing some of her own films. These relationships led to the films Annie (documentary short), My Father is Coming and Encounter with Werner Schroeter (documentary short).
Monika Treut (born April 6, 1954, in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German lesbian filmmaker. She attended high school at an all-girls state school. She studied German and Political Science at university. She wrote her PhD thesis about The Cruel Woman: Female Images in the Writing of Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After passing the state examination she graduated in 1978.
