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name: "Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus"
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fi1m_id: "beate-mainka-jellinghaus"
imdb_id: "nm0537754"
tmdb_id: 20554
wikidata_id: "Q103871"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "27 July 1936"
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average_fi1m_score: 85
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T00:10:59.629433+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

## Identity

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/beate-mainka-jellinghaus
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** beate-mainka-jellinghaus
- **IMDb ID:** nm0537754
- **TMDB ID:** 20554
- **Wikidata ID:** Q103871
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Mainka-Jellinghaus, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537754/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20554

Editor. Born 27 July 1936 in Opole.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 27 July 1936, Opole
- **Active:** 1972–1982
- **Frequently works with:** [Werner Herzog](https://film.one/person/werner-herzog.md), [Klaus Kinski](https://film.one/person/klaus-kinski.md)
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 86 (2), 1980s 82 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Adventure 2, History 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Mainka-Jellinghaus, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537754/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20554

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fitzcarraldo*](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md) (82), [*Stroszek*](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md) (82)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Aguirre, the Wrath of God*](https://film.one/film/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god.md) (91)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus is a German film editor. Born on 27 July 1936 near Oppeln (now Opole, Poland), she trained as an editor at a private film school in Wiesbaden after secondary education that included ballet and acting. Her first solo editing credit came in 1958 on the television production *Ein gewisser Judas*.

She became associated with the New German Cinema movement through early work with Edgar Reitz and a long collaboration with Alexander Kluge from the mid-1960s, including *Yesterday Girl* (1966) and *Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed* (1968). From 1968 she edited twenty films for Werner Herzog, among them *Signs of Life* (1968), *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* (1972), *The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser* (1974), *Nosferatu the Vampyre* (1979) and *Fitzcarraldo* (1982). She also contributed to *Germany in Autumn* (1978).

Mainka-Jellinghaus received the German Gold Film Ribbon for editing on *The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser* and Kluge’s *In Danger and Deep Distress, The Middleway Spells Certain Death* (both 1975). Her credited work spans more than twenty-five feature films and documentaries between 1966 and 1986.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md)
- *Stroszek* (1977), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md)
- *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* (1972), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Miscellaneous News* (1986), Editor
- *Where the Green Ants Dream* (1984), Editor
- *Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour* (1983), Editor
- *The Power of Emotion* (1983), Editor
- *God's Angry Man* (1983), Editor
- *Huie's Sermon* (1983), Editor
- *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/fitzcarraldo.md)
- *The Patriotic Woman* (1979), Editor
- *Woyzeck* (1979), Editor
- *Nosferatu the Vampyre* (1979), Editor
- *Germany in Autumn* (1978), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe* (1977), Editor
- *Stroszek* (1977), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md)
- *Who Wants to be Sick in this World?* (1977), Editor
- *Heart of Glass* (1976), Editor
- *How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck* (1976), Editor
- *No One Will Play with Me* (1976), Editor
- *In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death* (1974), Editor
- *The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser* (1974), Editor
- *The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner* (1974), Editor
- *Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908* (1973), Editor
- *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* (1972), Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god.md)
- *Fata Morgana* (1972), Editor
- *Land of Silence and Darkness* (1971), Editor
- *The Big Mess* (1971), Editor
- *Even Dwarfs Started Small* (1971), Editor
- *Handicapped Future* (1971), Editor
- *The Flying Doctors of East Africa* (1970), Editor
- *The Indomitable Leni Peickert* (1970), Editor
- *Precautions Against Fanatics* (1969), Editor
- *Aktiver Streik* (1969), Editor
- *Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed* (1968), Editor
- *Signs of Life* (1968), Editor
- *Last Words* (1968), Editor
- *E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher* (1968), Editor
- *Django und die Tradition - Politisches Protokoll der DK* (1968), Editor
- *Was tun?* (1968), Editor
- *Django und die Tradition - Diskussion der Justizkampagne* (1968), Editor
- *Yesterday Girl* (1967), Editor
- *Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt* (1967), Editor
- *Lust for Love* (1967), Editor
- *Die Kinder* (1967), Editor
- *Ruhestörung* (1967), Editor
- *Ski-Faszination* (1966), Editor
- *Die Wahl - Bundestagswahl 1965, Wahlkreis Neu-Ulm* (1966), Editor
- *Policeman's Lot* (1965), Editor
- *Yucatan* (1961), Editor
- *Cotton* (1960), Editor

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1978: Golden Bear (nominated), for *Germany in Autumn*

### Other awards — 1 won

- German Film Award for Best Editing 1975: German Film Award for Best Editing (won), for *In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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