Golden Hercules

Clemens Camphausen is one of the managing directors of the Machbar GmbH, Agency for Promotion and Design. Furthermore, he is guiding through the opening ceremony of Kassel Dokfest.

Manuel Domes works on intersections of conflict, identity, migration, and socio-ecological change. He was involved in conflict transformation projects in the Philippines for several years. There, he developed collective formats with local filmmakers to spark dialogue and reconciliation through films. Since his debut documentary film “A House in Pieces” (co-directed with Jean Claire Dy), Manuel has dedicated himself fully to filmmaking. Manuel grew up in Kassel and is 38 years old.

Bettina Fraschke is one of the editors of the Hessischen/Niedersächsischen Allgemeinen Zeitung. She writes for the department of culture about film and theatre.

Stefanie Kreuzer is Professor of “German Literature and Media Studies” at the University of Kassel. Since 2018, she has been the organizer of the Kassel Grimm Poetics Professorship (GPP) and initiator of the accompanying film series in cooperation with director Thomas Henke. Her research interests include (film)narratology; intertextuality and intermediality; dreamlike narration in literature, film, and visual arts; fantastic storytelling, realism and postmodernism.

Gitta Severloh is an editor for the Hessischen Rundfunk (Hessian broadcasting). She was the editor of “aspekte“(ZDF) and worked as a film author, editor, moderator and producer for multiple formats in TV stations in Germany (SWR, SFB, 3sat, DW-tv). Since 2003 she has been living in Frankfurt where she successfully produced the cultural magazine titel, thesen, temperamente (ARD) for15 years. She used to be a jury member of the German literature prize Geschwister-Scholl and worked as a reporter for Berlinale film festival with a focus on documentary film.