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Along with Didi Danquart, Pepe Danquart, Mirjam Quinte and others, Mike Schlömer was one of the founders of Medienwerkstatt Freiburg in 1978, which produced politically engaged films as a group until the 1990s in order to actively intervene in social processes. From the mid-1990s, he worked with the Freiburg Filmforum - Festival of Transcultural Cinema, which he has also managed since the early 2000s.
In 1995, Mike Schlömer realized the one-hour documentary "Weiße Wände", which follows the tracks of Wim Wenders' 1975 road movie "Im Lauf der Zeit" ("Kings of the Road") along the former German-German border.
Schlömer has been working as a film editor since 1984. His work in this capacity includes the documentaries "La Paloma. Sehnsucht weltweit" (2008) by Sigrid Faltin, for which Schlömer was nominated for the editing prize at the Film+ festival, "Tanzträume - Jugendliche tanzen KONTAKTHOF von Pina Bausch" ("Dancing Dreams – Teenagers perform 'Kontakthof' by Pina Bausch", 2010) by Anne Linsel and "Sternstunden" ("Magic Hours", 2013) by Henning Drechsler.
Mike Schlömer is also active as a producer: In 2003, for example, he produced "Boatpeople" by Martin Zawadzki and in 2012 the critically acclaimed "Sauacker" ("Son of the Soil") by Tobias Müller, about a young Swabian farmer who wants to modernize his father's farm.
Together with Georg Nonnenmacher, Schlömer made the documentary "Auf Anfang," in which they accompany a convicted murderer on his return to freedom after 28 years in prison. The film was awarded the NRW Film Prize at the Cologne Film Festival in October 2021, and was released in March 2022.