Katrin Rothe combines in all her works animation with other genres and has won several prizes for it in Germany. She grew up in East Germany and studied experimental Media Art in Berlin and London. Her TV debut 2003, using 2d animation for showing original job interviews in a documentary about young academics is a very early example of animated sequences in a documentary. 2015 to 2017 she was able to realize her first feature length movie for theatrical release. The historical documentary using cut-out animation about artists during the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg was shown worldwide at renowned Film Festivals. After Katrin Rothe has had two exhibitions dedicated to her work and her Making-Of process: At the Ilmin Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, South Korea 2018, as well as the Deutsches Institut für Animationsfilm in Dresden 2019. In her new movie, "Johnny&Me" she goes a step further: she mixes her innovative unique approach to animation with documentary and fictional elements at different levels of space and time. She runs a small animation studio in Berlin, which offers animation services and produces the animation parts of her films.
