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Martha Gellhorn, Margret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller were the first women to report on World War II directly from the front lines as war correspondents—with great courage, a spirit of adventure, and intellectual acuity. In »Drei Frauen – ein Krieg«, they speak for themselves and recount their impressions of a completely devastated Europe in groundbreaking reports. A moving film that depicts the horrors of war from a woman’s perspective—edited exclusively from their texts, photographs, and Allied film footage.
For the documentary »Drei Frauen – ein Krieg«, funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, director Luzia Schmid and editor Yana Höhnerbach were awarded two Grimme Prizes. “[…] Schmid embeds both the texts and the photos in film footage shot by American cameramen, which always perfectly illustrates what is being discussed at that moment. [… ] Confronted with suffering, death, and destruction, the women’s attitudes toward the events shift, and Yana Höhnerbach further highlights this through her meticulous editing,” the jury stated. Yana Höhnerbach also received the German Camera Award in the “Editing / Documentary Screen” category.
Holger Buff was responsible for sound design, and Jascha Viehl served as mixing engineer. Yana Höhnerbach (editor of, among others, “Memory Wars” and “Searching Eva”), Holger Buff (sound designer of, among others, »White Souvenirs«, »Mamita«), and Jascha Viehl (sound mixer, including »Buba«) all graduated in 2014 from the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln with a BA in Film, specializing in Video & Sound Editing. All three live in Cologne and frequently collaborate on film projects, most recently on »Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef« (dir.: Luzia Schmid).
The film won the German Camera Award (Editing) in 2024 and the Grimme Prize in 2024 (Information and Culture & Audience Award from the Marler Group).