Petra Seeger
Petra Seeger is a German documentary film director and producer. Her 2008 documentary film, "" explores the life of Eric Kandel, a Nobel Prize winning Austrian neuroscientist whose research focused on learning and memory. Career. Seeger has worked as a director since 1979. Creating documentaries for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, she covered the life of filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief, director Peter Zadek, and filmmaker/playwright Wim Wenders. In 1999, she founded a production company named Petra Seeger Film. Her 2008 documentary film "In Search of Memory" engages with the life of Nobel Prize winning Austrian neuroscientist Eric Kandel. The film includes  interviews with Kandel, his family, and friends, as well as archival footage and recreations of his childhood, and his recollections of witnessing Kristallnacht and his emigration to New York in 1939. Critical reception. "In Search of Memory" has been reviewed in "Nature", the "New York Times", "The Boston Globe", "Variety", "The Christian Science Monitor", "The Chicago Reader", and the "Chicago Tribune". "In Search of Memory" received the "Best Documentary" award at the 2010 Bavarian Film Awards. "In Search of Memory" is included in the permanent collection of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.