Biography
Susanne Bohlmann was born in Osnabrück on 1st of February 1978. She studied acting at the Actors Academy Berlin (1999/2000) and then at the Theaterakademie Köln from where she graduated in 2002. In 2003 and 2014, she studied journalism at the ILS Hamburg, before she started working as a freelance editor for the film magazine "Schnitt".
In 2014, Bohlmann founded the production companies kreatiFILM and ConkerTreeFilm with which she has been realizing numerous short films, documentaries, reportages, image films and music videos since. In addition to this, she has been working as a freelance director and cutter for several TV stations.
In 2011, she began to work on her first documentary feature film "Pink Elephants" (co-directed by Christopher Hawkins) about the controversial American acting and life coach Bernard Hiller. The film was completed in 2016. In parallel she had worked on two other feature-length documentaries: "To.Pas - Ein Schiff im Garten" (2016) about a retired couple that plans to go on a cruise with a self-built boat; and the international co-production "A Day in Their Shoes" (2016, co-directed by Christopher Hawkins), which focuses on a day in the lives of homeless people in big cities like New York, Rio, Berlin and Bangkok.
In November 2018, "Pink Elephants" was released in German cinemas, a month later her TV documentary "Eine Armlänge Welt" was transmitted. In the film, Bohlmann accompanies a blind man, who goes on a hike on the Camino de Santiago.