---
name: "Heidi Handorf"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/heidi-handorf"
fi1m_id: "heidi-handorf"
imdb_id: "nm0359642"
tmdb_id: 23663
wikidata_id: "Q29909425"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 February 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:50.785882+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."
---

# Heidi Handorf

## Identity

Heidi Handorf

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/heidi-handorf
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** heidi-handorf
- **IMDb ID:** nm0359642
- **TMDB ID:** 23663
- **Wikidata ID:** Q29909425
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29909425, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359642/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23663

Editor. Born 5 February 1949 in Uetersen.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 February 1949, Uetersen
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29909425, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359642/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23663

## Biography

Heidi Handorf is a German film editor. She was born on 5 February 1949 in Uetersen, Schleswig-Holstein.

She trained as a photographer before moving into film post-production in the early 1970s, working as a cutting assistant on films by directors including Alexander Kluge and Volker Schlöndorff. Handorf became a lead editor in the mid-1970s and maintained long collaborations with Edgar Reitz and Reinhard Hauff. She led the editing team on Reitz’s 11-part series *Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik* (1984) and edited Hauff’s *Stammheim* (1986), which won the Golden Bear at Berlin.

In a career spanning more than four decades she has edited over 80 feature-length films and numerous television episodes. Later work includes projects with Matti Geschonneck and Oliver Storz. In 2019 she received the Ehrenpreis Schnitt lifetime achievement award at the Filmplus festival.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heimat* (1984), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben* (2010), Editor
- *Die Frau, die im Wald verschwand* (2009), Editor
- *Freiwild - Ein Würzburg-Krimi* (2008), Editor
- *March of Millions* (2007), series, Editor
- *Zerbrechliche Zeugin* (2004), Editor
- *Allein unter Männern* (2001), Editor
- *Reise in die Nacht* (1998), Editor
- *Obsession* (1997), Editor
- *Angst hat eine kalte Hand* (1996), Editor
- *Der Mörder und sein Kind* (1995), Editor
- *The Film Narrator* (1993), Editor
- *Blue-Eyed* (1989), Editor
- *Devil's Paradise* (1987), Editor
- *Tommaso Blu* (1987), Editor
- *'38 - Vienna Before the Fall* (1986), Editor
- *The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial* (1986), Editor
- *Heimat* (1984), series, Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages* (1982), Editor
- *The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner* (1979), Editor
- *Der Komantsche* (1979), Editor
- *Ich heiß' Marianne, und Du...?* (1976), Editor

## Gallery

- ![Heidi Handorf](https://film.one/media/person/6774774/gallery-63eb871de193.jpg) Heidi Handorf — Oliver Driemel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Heidi_Handorf_in_Berlin_2017-05-06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Film editor Heidi Handorf being presented as the new honorary member of the German editors guild (Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e.V.) in Berlin on 6th May 20 (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/6774774/gallery-14e882e44dbc.jpg) Film editor Heidi Handorf being presented as the new honorary member of the German editors guild (Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e.V.) in Berlin on 6th May 20 (2017) — Oliver Driemel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Heidi_Handorf_BFS-Ehrenmitgliedschaft_2017-05-06.jpg/1280px-Heidi_Handorf_BFS-Ehrenmitgliedschaft_2017-05-06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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