Birgit Hein

Birgit Hein
Born	August 6, 1942 Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Film director, producer and screenwriter
Years active	1967–present
Spouse(s)	Wilhelm Hein
Website	http://www.hbk-bs.de/bhein/

Birgit Hein (born August 6, 1942) is a German film director, producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films with her husband Wilhelm Hein since the 1960s.^[1]

Biography

Hein was born in Berlin in 1942.^[2] In 1964, she married Wilhelm Hein, with whom she collaborated on several experimental film projects.^[2] In 1968, she co-founded XSCREEN, an exhibition space in Cologne.^[3] In 1993, Hein won the German Film Critics Association Best Experimental Film Award for her film Die Unheimlichen Frauen.

Filmography

• 1967: S & W
• 1968: Rohfilm
• 1982: Love Stinks
• 1986: Washing of The Feet (episode) in Jesus – Der Film
• 1992: Die Unheimlichen Frauen
• 1995: Baby, I Will Make You Sweat
• 2000: La Moderna poesia

References

Footnotes

1. Foster, p.176
2. Büttenbender, Gerhard. "Birgit Hein - Ihr leben". Official site. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
3. "After the Avant-garde: Participants". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2008-05-17.

Sources

• Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 176–178. ISBN 0-313-28972-7.

External links

• Official site (German)
• Birgit Hein at the Internet Movie Database