Biography
Patricia Rommel, born in Paris in 1956, worked on various film and dubbing productions from 1977 to 1980. She has been a freelance editor since 1980 and has edited films for Nina Grosse (starting with "Der gläserne Himmel", 1987), Uwe Janson, Wolfgang Becker ("Das Leben ist eine Baustelle" ("Life Is All You Get") ,1997)), Dominik Graf, Romuald Karmakar and almost all of Caroline Link's works since "Jenseits der Stille" ("Beyond Silence", 1996), among others. For her editing of Hendrik Hölzemann's "Kammerflimmern" ("Off Beat", 2004), Rommel received the German Camera Award and the Editing Award in 2005, and for "Das Leben der Anderen" ("The Lives of Others") by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck she was nominated for the German Film Award in 2006. After her work on the comedies "Franzözisch für Anfänger" ("French for Beginners") and "Reine Geschmackssache" ("Fashion Victims"), she was again nominated for the German Film Award in early 2009 for editing on the family drama "Im Winter ein Jahr" ("A Year Ago In Winter").
In the following years, she was responsible for the editing of two more films by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, his first American production "The Tourist" (2010) starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, as well as the Oscar-nominated artist biopic "Werk ohne Autor" ("Never Look Away", 2018). She also edited two more films by Caroline Link, "Exit Marrakech" (2013) and "Als Hitler das rosa Kanninchen stahl" (2019).
In addition to this, Rommel edited a number of international productions, including the award-winning Bosnian war drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (US 2011), the relationship drama "By the Sea" (FR, MT, US 2015) and the biopic "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers", KH, US 2017, all directed by Angelina Jolie. Together with her co-editor Adriana Martínez, she was awarded the 2016 Mexican film prize Premio Ariel for her work on "Gloria" (MX 2014), a biopic about Mexican pop singer Gloria Trevi.
Patricia Rommel is a member of the German and European Film Academies and, since 2018, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars annually.