Filmmaker
While in Stuttgart, Ulli Kampelmann was commissioned by the Mercedes Benz company to create a large artwork for a new showroom. In order to research ideas for the work she was given access to the corporate archives where she came across the little-known details of the invention of the automobile by Carl Benz in 1885 as well as the charming story of the first ever long distance road trip by Carl's wife Bertha. Once Ulli was in the USA she wished to bring this story as well as the details of her own personal experiences growing up in and eventually escaping from East Germany.
In order to bring these stories to life, Ulli wrote the screenplay for and directed a short documentary titled The Car is Born - a documentary about Carl and Bertha Benz. She and her husband entered this documentary into a few film festivals and their work won a "Best of the Fest" award in 2011.
Their second documentary, That Damned Wall is in post-production.
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