Kathrin Albers and her short masterpieces

Merciless, humorous, masterful: short films that take it to the extreme

Kathrin Albers' animated short films are something special: merciless, extremely humorous and masterfully designed, the themes are taken to extremes with relish and exaggeration, and always imaginatively realised in the best stop motion. Kathrin Albers studied illustration and design and has been a member of the Stoptrick stop-motion animation studio team in Hamburg since 2002. With ‘Quench’, Albers made a parody short film together with Jim Lacy and Daniel Haude in 2002, which is based on the puppet animation film and German Oscar® winner ‘Quest’ (1996). Albers/Stoptrick received the Skoda Short Film Award at the Berlin International Short Film Festival in 2007 for their short film ‘Peters Prinzip’. The animated film about quirky employees at a swimming ring factory was also honoured with the German Business Film Award. With ‘Die schiefe Bahn’, an animated short film about a railway robbery by former railway officials, Albers received audience awards at the IKFF Hamburg, Exground Wiesbaden, the Flensburg Short Film Festival and the ‘Shorts at Moonlight’ festival in 2008. The animation studio, where Albers is responsible for design and animation, also produces numerous trailers, music videos and advertising films.

Kathrin Albers studied illustration and design and has been a member of the Stoptrick stop-motion animation studio team in Hamburg since 2002. With ‘Quench’, Albers made a parody short film together with Jim Lacy and Daniel Haude in 2002, which is based on the puppet animation film and German Oscar® winner ‘Quest’ (1996).

Albers/Stoptrick received the Skoda Short Film Award at the Berlin International Short Film Festival in 2007 for their short film ‘Peters Prinzip’. The animated film about quirky employees at a swimming ring factory was also honoured with the German Business Film Award. With ‘Die schiefe Bahn’, an animated short film about a railway robbery by former railway officials, Albers received audience awards at the IKFF Hamburg, Exground Wiesbaden, the Flensburg Short Film Festival and the ‘Shorts at Moonlight’ festival in 2008.

The animation studio, where Albers is responsible for design and animation, also produces numerous trailers, music videos and advertising films.

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