Wiebke Thomsen
Wiebke Thomsen was born in Georgsmarienhütte in 1982. She grew up in Oldenburg and moved to Leipzig to study cultural studies, film studies and philosophy.
After her studies, she worked in a cinema on the island Amrum, for an English language culture magazine in Iceland and as deputy cinema manager of an arthouse cinema in Hanover.
In 2014 she opened the City Kino Wedding with her colleague Anne Lakeberg, which in the following years became a cherished cinema in Germany´s capital. In 2018, Wiebke Thomsen and her husband Johannes opened the Lodderbast Kino in Hanover in a small space of just 39 square meters, which was awarded four cinema program prizes of Lower Saxony, the cinema prize of the Deutsche Kinemathek association and was voted Germany’s most popular cinema in 2020.
Since 2023, Wiebke and Johannes have been on the road with their mobile Lodderbast Kino, their debut film ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY and their international short film festival REELS ON WHEELS. They are living and working in a caravan and putting on cinema events wherever it is urgently needed or simply just fun. In addition, Wiebke works as a host and jury member at various film festivals and film competitions and is a regular guest at panel discussions and film theory courses.
Wiebke Thomsen – Credentials
since 10/2022
Presentation and screening of our own Live Super8 film ONCE UPON A TIME IN GERMANY
10/2022
Editor and host of the film talk show “GastHOF” as part of the 56th Hof International Film Festival (on stage and live stream)
10/2022
Editor and host of the live panel “Please help, my film is being seen” as part of the 56th Hof International Film Festival (on stage and live stream)
10/2021
Editor and host of the film talk show “GastHOF” as part of the 55th Hof International Film Festival (studio and live stream)
10/2020
Editor and host of the film talk show “GastHOF” as part of the 54th Hof International Film Festival (studio and live stream)
08/2020
Host of the “The long nights of young film” as part of the First Steps Awards 2020 (live stream)
03/2020 to 05/2021
Editor and host of the Lodderbast live online cinema (live stream) with over 120 screenings, more than 150 guest speakers and over 60,000 viewers
10/2019
Speaker at the live-panel “Couch oder Cinema” at the 53th Hof International Film Festival
10/2019
Jury member for the Peace Film Prize at the Unabhängiges Film Festival in Osnabrück
08/2019 to 11/2019
Selection of the international program for the up-and-coming Filmfest Hannover
09/2018 to 12/2019
Lecturer in film history at the SAE Institute in Hanover
01/2018 to 03/2020
Co-founder and owner of the Lodderbast cinema in Hanover
05/2017 to 04/2020
Film distributor at “La Bäm!” distributing the film LA BOUM
05/2016 to 05/2019
Jury member at the Hanover Film Fund
05/2016 to 05/2022
Host and jury member of the “Hannover Filmklappe” and “Niedersachsen Filmklappe”
03/2016 to 09/2019
Freelance work for “Nordlichter – New Scandinavian Cinema”
09/2014 to 07/2019
Co-founder and owner of the City Kino Wedding in Berlin
11/2011 to 07/2017
Deputy cinema management at Kino am Raschplatz in Hanover
04/2011 to 10/2011
Employee at Lichtblick Kino on the island Amrum
08/2010 to 10/2010
Editorial work for THE REYKJAVIK GRAPEVINE in Iceland
11/2006 to 02/2009
Head of department “Super 8 – Das Kinomagazin” and “Kultstatus” at Radio mephisto 97.6 in Leipzig
01/2006 to 03/2006
Assistant at the Schaubühne Lindenfels cinema in Leipzig
03/2005
Editorial internship at epd Film in Frankfurt a.M.
07/1998 to 06/1999
Exchange student in Honduras and Panama