Biography

Studied Video Art and Experimental Filmmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts of Berlin. In 1997, she moved to New York and began working as an independent filmmaker, theater manager and research assistant for Anthology Film Archives and Filmmakers Coop New York. In 1999 she received a DAAD Grant and was able to study film production at the New School to develop her first feature documentary "Cinemania", which premiered in 2002. At Hamptons Film Festival "Cinemania" won "Best Documentary Award". In 2009 her second feature documentary "Urville" premiered at International Hof Film Festival. In 2013 "Naked Opera", premiered at Berlinale film festival and won the first "Heiner-Carow-Award" at the Berlinale Panorama Section and the Press Jury Award at "Message of Man Festival" in St. Petersburg. In 2014 she both produced for directed "Whatever Happened to Gelitin", which was premiered at Diagonale Festival. In 2016 she realized "Into an Alien Land", an experimental short. in 2019 her new short film "Superunknown" was premiered and won the first prize "Best Short Film" at Bideodromo Festival in San Sebastian. Her new feature documentary "Under the Underground" premiered at Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films and won the Jury prize "Best Music Documentary" at Music Film Festival Hamburg and the "Audience Award" at Soundwatch Music Film Festival Berlin.
- IMDb mini biography by: Angela Christlieb