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Antje Hubert who was born in Celle in 1966, studied fine arts and history in Braunschweig and Kiel. From 1993 to 1995, she worked as a media assistant at the film promotion board of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1996, she has been working as a freelance filmmaker. She shot a variety of documentaries, focussing on socio-political issues, like "ad acta" (2002, co-director: Olga Schell) about selection processes in the Nazi health care system and "Jetzt fahren wir übern See" (2003) about three mentally disabled women and mothers, for which she received the best documentary award at Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein. In 2003/04, Hubert directed the oral history project "Gelebte Zeit" about the everyday life of children and young adults in Kiel-Gaarden in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In 2004, she was awarded the promotion of the arts award ("Kunstförderpreis") of Schleswig-Holstein.
In 2007, "Das Dorforchester" premiered at Lübeck Nordic Film Days, a documentary on a marching band and on village life in Schleswig-Holstein. Subsequently, she started working on "20 Geigen auf St. Pauli". For the duration of three years she went along with a group of elementary school students from a poorer Hamburg neighborhood who, in the course of a relief project, took violin classes under star musician Gino Romero-Ramirez.
In January 2012, Hubert's documentary "Das Ding vom Deich – Vom Widerstand gegen ein Atomkraftwerk" premiered at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival and was awarded the DEFA Foundation's sponsorship award. In August of the same year, the film was released in German movie theaters.
From late 2014 to early 2016, Hubert shot material for her next documentary: "Von Bananenbäumen träumen" (2016) portrays a village community in Northern Germany. The locals plan to raise banana trees as new source of income for the increasingly deserted region. The film premiered at the 2016 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck and was released in the spring of 2017.
In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Hubert started the project "Provinzoffensive!", a project office for rural future issues. The first project was a travel book for which rural initiatives were visited and interviewed about their experiences. It was published in November 2021.
Her next documentary also dealt with rural life: "Alles, was man braucht" (2021) shows people in northern and eastern German villages who for themselves have created niches of appreciation, individual entrepreneurship and social justice in the modern consumer society. The premiere took place at the Hofer Filmtage 2021, and the film was released in April 2022.