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Joseph (Joschy) Scheidegger<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_joschy\"Father of director and scriptwriter Eva Vitija, Joschy Scheidegger, was born 1929 in Zurich. Despite he is growing up in a poor family with his single mother, he soon is attracted by the Zurich Theatre School, where he studies acting with the best German-speaking actors, amongst whom German emigrants who had fled from Nazi Germany to Switzerland. He is only 22 when the promising young actor founds a family himself. After a few years playing the role of the \u2018young romantic male and nature boy\u2019 on German and Swiss stages and in movies, he joins Radio Basel.<\/p>\n

\u00abEverybody wants to hold on to happiness. This is why I filmed you so often. Until you couldn\u2019t bare it anymore.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First hired as a news presenter, he soon develops to become a radio drama producer and director in the Radio Drama Department of Radio Basel. In this role he not only discovers many Swiss authors during the 60s and the 70s, but directs as well numerous technically and artistically innovative projects such as the first Swiss radio drama in stereo. The divorce with his first wife is a traumatic but liberating experience as well. A son he had from this marriage developed schizophrenia and later jumped from the window of a psychiatric clinic.
\nAt 41 Joschy Scheidegger falls in love with one of his acting students, Eva Vitija\u2019s mother, Claudia Freund. They marry and have two children, Eva and her brother Kaspar.
\nAfter having worked many years at Radio Basel, he joins Swiss television. There he directs numerous Television Plays. With \u2018Landflucht\u2019 in 1979, he makes his first feature film in ENG, a new technique which made it possible for television to shoot outside and not only in studios. A few years later the second divorce follows. During his last years at television, he discovers the documentary reportage. He always has a girlfriend around. At 64 and 77 he again experiences great love stories with younger women. However in parallel to his love of life, he increasingly suffers from depressive episodes. He dies very unexpectedly at the beginning of 2012.<\/p>\n

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Eva Vitija<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_eva\"Eva Vitija was born 1973 in Basel, has grown up in Zurich and lives together with her husband in Winterthur. Since 2002 she has been working as a screenwriter and script consultant for both television and cinema, in Switzerland and Germany.\u00a0She wrote several screenplays for full-length feature films, TV-Movies and TV series. As a consultant, Eva Vitija also supports other authors\u2019 projects and is a screenwriting teacher committed to educate future generations. She is a member of the Cultural commission of the Swiss copyright society Suissimage and is as well the Vice-Chairwoman of the Swiss Filmmakers Association (ARF\/FDS). \u201cMy Life as a Film\u201d is Eva Vitija’s first full-length film as a director. She made this film in the course of her Master’s program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).<\/p>\n

\u00abTo be honest, I would find it very hard to speak about certain subjects, if I did not know I have to, because it is part of my film.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Filmography<\/strong><\/p>\n

2015:\u00a0My Life as a Film<\/em>\u00a0 Documentary for the cinema. Script and direction (Swissdok, ZHdK, SRF)
\n2013:\u00a0Storm & Co.<\/em>\u00a0 Short documentary. Script and direction (ZHdK)
\nThe Old House<\/em>\u00a0 TV movie, Screenplay with Signe Astrup (SRF, Snakefilm)
\n2010: Sommerv\u00f6gel<\/em> Feature film script, Screenplay with Signe Astrup (Hugofilm)
\nMadly in Love<\/em>\u00a0 Feature film script, Screenplay with Elke R\u00f6ssler (Topic Features, Neue Cameo Film)
\n2004\u20132006:\u00a0L\u00fcthi & Blanc<\/em>\u00a0 TV-Soap, Screenplays for 19 episodes (SRF)
\n2003:\u00a0Meier, Marilyn<\/em>\u00a0 TV movie, Screenplay with Petra Volpe. (SRF, Dschoint Ventschr)
\n2001: Aufhellungen im Laufe des Tages<\/em>\u00a0 Graduation film ZHdK,\u00a0Screenplay with Anna-Lydia Florin
\n1999: Diebe Vol. 1-3\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Graduation film ZHdK, Screenplay with Anna Luif<\/p>\n

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Claudia Freund<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_claudia\"Eva Vitija\u2019s mother was born 1950 in Basel. She met Joschy Scheidegger at 19 as her acting teacher. She was a young mother – she had her son Kaspar at 21, and her daughter Eva at 23. Later she studied psychology and worked as a psychotherapist. She was married to Joschy Scheidegger for 18 years. She is now retired and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, with her third husband.<\/p>\n

\u00abAt first I thought it was an incredibly creative act from him. An attempt of self-healing. Over time it became almost pathological. It had turned against him.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kaspar Scheidegger<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_kaspar\"Eva Vitija\u2019s brother was born in 1971. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and lives with his wife in the Basel region. The film made him feel the way he felt as a child, when the camera was constantly watching him.<\/p>\n

\u00abOn the one hand he really documented everything down to the smallest detail. And on the other hand he managed to maneuver\u00a0core issues of his life around us for forty years.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dominique Scheidegger<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_dominique\"Eva Vitija\u2019s half-brother, born 1951, lived \u2013 as he says \u2013 \u2018self-sufficient\u2019, on the margin of society, in a hut at a campsite in the Jura. He used to have a single-person transport company. Eva Vitija: \u201cI only remember having seen him once as a kid. This film brought us back together for the first time since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00abI respected and loved him. But I also wanted to be understood. Loving also means understanding, telling the truth, being honest.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cornelia Bernoulli<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_cornelia\"Cornelia Bernoulli is an actress and author from Basel living in Munich. She was Joschy Scheidegger\u2019s first love after his divorce from Claudia Freund.<\/p>\n

\u00abIt was the first time I met people who were living a so-called \u2018open marriage\u2019.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Antoinette Poli<\/h2>\n

\"protagonisten_antoinette\"Antoinette Poli, psychoanalyst in Zurich, was Joschy Scheidegger\u2019s last great love.<\/p>\n

\u00abHe tried to let go more and more but he succeeded less and less.\u00bb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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