The Waiting
Das Warten

The Waiting | Das Warten by Volker Schlecht
DEU 2023, Berlinale Shorts
© Volker Schlecht

The Waiting | Das Warten by Volker Schlecht
DEU 2023, Berlinale Shorts
With
- Karen Lips (Narrator)
Crew
Director | Volker Schlecht |
Screenplay | Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch |
Animation | Volker Schlecht |
Editing | Volker Schlecht |
Music | Hannes Schulze |
Sound Design | Hannes Schulze |
Sound | Hannes Schulze, Michal Krajczok |
Producers | Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch |
Co-Producer | Volker Schlecht |
Produced by
MobyDOK Medienproduktion

The 2023 Berlinale Shorts directors
8 · Back · Les chenilles · Eeva · From Fish to Moon · Happy Doom · La herida luminosa | Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays · It’s a Date · Jill, Uncredited · A Kind of Testament · Marungka tjalatjunu | Dipped in Black · As miçangas | The Beads | Perlen · Mwanamke Makueni | A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni · Nuits blanches | Sleepless Nights | Schlaflose Nächte · Ours | Bear | Bär · Qin mi | Daughter and Son · Terra Mater – Mother Land · The Veiled City · The Waiting | Das Warten · Wo de peng you | All Tomorrow’s Parties · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2023

Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne, Daria Belova , Valeri Aluskina, Volker Schlecht, Yazan Rabee
The directors of the Berlinale Shorts programme V at the premiere.
Marungka tjalatjunu | Dipped in Black · Mwanamke Makueni | A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni · The Waiting | Das Warten · Back · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 22, 2023
Volker Schlecht

Born in Radeberg, Germany in 1968, he works as an illustrator, draftsman and filmmaker in Berlin. He studied communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and taught animation for a number of years at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and at the University of Europe in Berlin. He is currently professor of design and draftmanship at Anhalt University in Dessau. As an illustrator, he works under the joint label of Drushba Pankow with Alexandra Kardinar.
Filmography (short films, selection)
1997 Rue rosé (Pink Street) 2000 Sonst nichts (Nothing Else) 2008 Germania Wurst (German History in a Bite) 2009 Green New Deal 2012 Nobody’s Fool (Over You) 2014 Kyrie eleison (Transforming Gods) 2016 Kaputt 2017 Zwischen den Stühlen (Between the Chairs) 2021 Revolving Machine 2023 The Waiting
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023