Susanne Birck
Cultural scientist and journalist
Country of origin:
Germany
Susanne Birck (*1969) studied Cultural Sciences and received a university degree as Magistra Artium. During her studies, her main subject was film history. Her master thesis is about the US-American Western movies by John Ford. She works at a district administration in northern Germany as a project manager for cross-border German-Danish co-operations. As a freelance journalist, she regularly attends the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in order to write film reviews and do interviews with filmmakers (published in an online magazine). Highlight in her journalist career was definitely to interview the Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö.
Articles
Every September, the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival opens its cinemas to professionals and audiences to show the most significant and critically acclaimed films. It seems like a small, family film festival, but CineFest has become the most important international film festival in Hungary.