Marilyn Janssen

Soundeditor, Sound Designer, Re-Recording Mixer

majanssen@gmx.de
+49 179 201 37 90
Website | filmportal | IMDb

Practicing professionally since: 1985
based in: North Rhine-Westphalia

Marilyn Janssen has worked as a professional audio producer for more than 40 years. Initially, she worked for WDR radio and television. After studying human sciences at University Cologne, she worked as an assistant film director, radio author and post production sound editor and re-recording engineer.

Marilyn was responsible for the multi award winning movie Rivers & Tides (D: T. Riedelsheimer, 2001) and the Grimme Prize Winner Der Tag der in der Handtasche verschwand (D: M. Kainz 1999).

Marilyn writes and produces radio plays, features and on-air promotions, and produces a wide variety of other commercial sound work. Her experimental radio play Sommergras (1996-2014) was nominated for the ARD Pinball Award in 2015 and invited to Berliner Hörspielfest 2015.

From 2012 to 2026, she held the sole teaching position for film sound at Macromedia University in Cologne. Since 2024, she has been teaching film sound at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Own equipment: beautiful, sunny work space for Protools Postproduction, all important plug-ins, basic mobile equipment

Languages: German (native speaker) | English and French (fluent) | Italian (basic knowledge)

Filmography (selection)