Biography
Pamela Meyer-Arndt, born in Cologne in 1967, studied film at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in New York. During her studies she made several short films, including the documentaries "What's up Amos Poe" (1991), about the New York independent filmmaker Amos Poe, and "Hotel 17" (1993) about the New York cult hotel of the same name. In the mid-1990s, she worked in New York for Amos Poe and the production company The Shooting Gallery. On the feature film "I Love You, I Love You Not" (US 1996) with Jude Law and Claire Danes, she served as assistant to director Billy Hopkins; in Germany, she was assistant director to Janek Rieke on the comedy "Härtetest" (1997).
Between 1997 and 2006, Meyer-Arndt worked as a director for commercials. In 2006 she realized the feature-length documentary "Ostfotografinnen", about the lives and work of the East German photographers Helga Paris, Sibylle Bergemann and Gundula Schulze-Eldowy. In the same year, the she made the 30-minute documentary "Die Märchenhafte" about GDR fashion photographer Bergemann for the TV series "Lebenslinien".
In 2010, she made the feature-length documentary "Dorfliebe," in which Meyer-Arndt draws a portrait of the tiny home village of Berka in Thuringia, based on photographs by Ludwig Schirmer, Ute Mahler (Schirmer's daughter) and Werner Mahler.
With "Roger Melis – Chronist der Ostdeutschen" (2019), she made another documentary on the subject of photography and photographers in the context of contemporary history, this time about the famous East German photographer Roger Melis (1940-2009). Also in "Rebellinnen – Fotografie. Underground. DDR" (2022), Pamela Meyer-Arndt revisited this theme. The documentary deals with the lives and works of the photographers and artists Tina Bara, Cornelia Schleime and Gabriele Stötzer, who were active in the underground art scene of the GDR in the 1970s and 80s.