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Dr. Sigrid Faltin, born in 1956, studied English, German, and history in Bonn and Freiburg. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “Emigration from the Palatines to the United States“ in modern history. After training as a journalist, she worked as a regional correspondent with the German South-West TV station SWF, and as an anchorwoman for radio and TV. Today she is a book author, a writer, director, and producer for television and an independent documentary filmmaker. She has received several international awards for her films, among them a New York Film Festival award for her internationally produced film about Hilla Rebay, the founding director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She authored a widely respected biography of Rebay and a book on the history of the song La Paloma, about which she made a feature film as well, which was shown on film festivals worldwide. Sigrid Faltin is a member of the European Documentary Network. She is married and at home in Freiburg, Germany.
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