MANUELA FEDERL
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I am a storyteller! |
ABOUT
I live for my profession as a journalist, photographer and filmmaker. I explore the world with curiosity, I love getting to know new people and new places and capturing them in pictures. It is important to me that people take off their masks in front of my camera and show me their true colours. On my homepage you will only find projects that are important to me and with which I have a connection.
STUDIES
During my studies of languages, economics and cultural studies at the University of Passau and the Universidad de Concepción in Chile with a focus on Ibero-Romance studies, I came into contact with other cultures a lot and decided to write my diploma thesis on the land issues of indigenous people in Chile. The work was subsequently published as a book. "Mapuche. Gente de la tierra sin tierra." is available online everywhere in German language.
WORK EXPERIENCE
As a tour guide, I climbed the highest mountain in Europe with groups and led them through the country, I worked as a bank clerk, crossed the Alps at least ten times as a mountain leader and yet I always found my way back to my calling: journalism. Whether as a news editor, photographer or documentary filmmaker: it is important to me to share my view of the world with people and to tell their stories.
ACHIEVEMENTS
My 90-minute documentary THE GAME: A Game Between Life and Death (2021) aired on TV and in cinemas, was translated into five languages, and is now used by schools as a teaching resource on the topic of migration. My short film My Last Eight-Thousander (2024) has been screened at festivals and in theaters and is used by the Alzheimer’s Foundation and other charitable organizations for educational purposes. My documentaries are regularly featured on Servus TV, ORF, and BR.
My photo essays have already been exhibited in Canada, Australia, England, Scotland, Mexico, and other countries. My photo essay on the Roma princesses in eastern Slovakia was particularly successful. I regularly publish my work in magazines and newspapers. My photo essay on the Chiemgau alpine farmers, “Einfach Alm—When the Day Is Enough,” is currently on display at the Holzknecht Museum in Ruhpolding and is already fully booked through 2027. This year, I’m taking the photos for my first book, BERGFRAUEN, together with my colleague Nina Ruhland, who is writing the text.
I live for my profession as a journalist, photographer and filmmaker. I explore the world with curiosity, I love getting to know new people and new places and capturing them in pictures. It is important to me that people take off their masks in front of my camera and show me their true colours. On my homepage you will only find projects that are important to me and with which I have a connection.
STUDIES
During my studies of languages, economics and cultural studies at the University of Passau and the Universidad de Concepción in Chile with a focus on Ibero-Romance studies, I came into contact with other cultures a lot and decided to write my diploma thesis on the land issues of indigenous people in Chile. The work was subsequently published as a book. "Mapuche. Gente de la tierra sin tierra." is available online everywhere in German language.
WORK EXPERIENCE
As a tour guide, I climbed the highest mountain in Europe with groups and led them through the country, I worked as a bank clerk, crossed the Alps at least ten times as a mountain leader and yet I always found my way back to my calling: journalism. Whether as a news editor, photographer or documentary filmmaker: it is important to me to share my view of the world with people and to tell their stories.
ACHIEVEMENTS
My 90-minute documentary THE GAME: A Game Between Life and Death (2021) aired on TV and in cinemas, was translated into five languages, and is now used by schools as a teaching resource on the topic of migration. My short film My Last Eight-Thousander (2024) has been screened at festivals and in theaters and is used by the Alzheimer’s Foundation and other charitable organizations for educational purposes. My documentaries are regularly featured on Servus TV, ORF, and BR.
My photo essays have already been exhibited in Canada, Australia, England, Scotland, Mexico, and other countries. My photo essay on the Roma princesses in eastern Slovakia was particularly successful. I regularly publish my work in magazines and newspapers. My photo essay on the Chiemgau alpine farmers, “Einfach Alm—When the Day Is Enough,” is currently on display at the Holzknecht Museum in Ruhpolding and is already fully booked through 2027. This year, I’m taking the photos for my first book, BERGFRAUEN, together with my colleague Nina Ruhland, who is writing the text.