Birgit Hein

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Birgit Hein (born August 6, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German filmmaker , film scholar , performance artist and university lecturer . With her structural films (since 1966), performances, documentary film essays and film studies publications, she is considered one of the decisive pioneers of German underground and experimental film .

Life

Hein studied art history and theater studies at the University of Cologne in the early 1960s . From 1966 to 1988 she worked with Wilhelm Hein and made films and organized performances with him . She was represented with two film works, together with Wilhelm Hein, participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: New European Cinema department and also as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977. Their joint work has been presented in various retrospectives, e.g. B. in the Anthology Archives, New York (1974), in the Filmmuseum Frankfurt (1985) as well as in Cologne (1988) and in Copenhagen (1989). In the 1970s she organized and curated several exhibitions on experimental film, e. B. Art remains art (Cologne 1974), film as film (Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart 1977) and film as film (London 1979). Tour for the Goethe-Institut to Pakistan, Bangladesh and India (1987) and participation in the International Experimental Film Congress Toronto (1989).

In 1968 she co-founded XScreen in Cologne for subculture events and programming for various cinemas. In the 1970s, lectureships in film art followed at various universities (including at the Cologne factory schools ). Birgit Hein has been a professor at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig) since 1990 ; she retired in 2007.

Many premieres of her films at the Forum des Junge Films, Berlin Film Festival (1986, 1992, 1995) as well as television broadcasts (e.g. Baby, I Will Make You Sweat , 1997) and acquisitions of film collections (e.g. Musée d'Art Moderne - Center Pompidou, 1999). Numerous retrospectives, e.g. B. Montreal 2000, Rotterdam 2000, Madrid 2002 and in the Arsenal Berlin 2003.

She has been a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 2007, and has been the deputy director of the visual arts section since 2012.

Filmography

  • 1968: raw film , 16 mm, 20 min
  • 1969: 625, 16 mm, 34 min
  • 1974: Structural studies, 16 mm, 37 min
  • 1978–82: Superman and Wonderwoman, film performance
  • 1982: Love Stinks - Pictures of Daily Madness, 16 mm, 82 min
  • 1986: Forbidden Pictures, 16 mm, 87 min
  • 1987–88: The Kali Films, 16 mm, 70 min
  • 1991: The scary women , 16 mm, 63 min
  • 1994: Baby, I Will Make You Sweat , 16 mm, 63 min
  • 1997: Mayflies, video, 24 min
  • 2000: La Moderna Poesia, 16 mm, 67 min
  • 2006: War pictures, video, 10 min
  • 2013: Abstract film, video, 10 min

Literature (selection)

  • Hein, Birgit: Film in the Underground. Ullstein publishing house. Berlin-Frankfurt / M-Vienna 1971.
  • Hein, W + B / Wiest, Rolf / Michelis, Ch .: XSCREEN. Materials for the underground film.
  • Phaidon publishing house. Cologne 1974.
  • Hein, Birgit: catalog part film. in: Art remains art, project 1974.
  • Exhibition catalog. Cologne 1974.
  • Hein, Birgit: Avantgarde and Politics. in: Millenium Film Journal. New York 1977.
  • Hein, Birgit: film about film. in: Documenta 6, catalog vol. 2, Kassel 1977.
  • Hein, Birgit / Herzogenrath, Wulf: Film as Film. 1910 until today. Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Hein, Birgit: W + B Hein: Documents 1967 - 1985, photos, letters, texts. Cinematograph 3.
  • German Film Museum Frankfurt / M. 1985.
  • Hein, Birgit: experimental film and visual arts.
  • in: Petzke, Ingo / Schobert, Walter (ed.): The experimental film manual. Frankfurt 1988.
  • Hein, Birgit: No female aesthetics? in: Morell, Renate (ed.): Female Aesthetics? - Sleight of hand! Pfaffenweiher 1993.
  • Birgit Hein: The experimental film tradition at the Bauhaus. In: Thomas Tode (ed.), Bauhaus & Film, Maske and Kothurn, 27th year 2011 issue 1–2, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2012
  • Birgit Hein, The Idea of ​​Music and the Idea of ​​Film: Cage - Fluxus - Film. In: Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk (eds.), "John Cage and ..." Visual artist - influences, suggestions, Cologne 2012
  • Nanna Heidenreich, Heike Klippel, Florian Krautkrämer (eds.): Film as an idea, Birgit Hein's texts Birgit Hein's texts on film / art, Berlin 2016
  • Birgit Hein and Susanne Pfeffer, The image in the structure: a conversation in: Susanne Pfeffer (ed.): Paul Sharits, Kassel 2015

Exhibitions and individual demonstrations (selection)

  • Documenta 5, Kassel 1972,
  • Documenta 6, Kassel 1977,
  • Cineprobe Museum of Modern Art New York 1996,
  • San Francisco Cinematheque 1996,
  • Cinematheque Francaise, Paris 1998,
  • Berlin / Moscow - Moscow / Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin 2003,
  • X-SCREEN. Film installations and actions from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna 2003,
  • Behind the facts. Inter functions 1968–1975, Fondacion Miro Barcelona 2004,
  • Goethe Institute Shanghai 2007,
  • EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL Osnabrück 2007,
  • NOTATION, Form and Calculus in the Arts, Akademie der Künste Berlin and ZKM Karlsruhe 2008,
  • 1968. The great innocence, Bielefeld 2009,
  • MOVING IMAGES, Artist & Video / Film, Museum Ludwig Cologne 2010
  • Fluxus and the beginnings of media art, museum FLUXUS + , Potsdam, 2012
  • International Braunschweig Film Festival 2013

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hein . ( adk.de [accessed on February 18, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Birgit Hein at the Braunschweig Film Festival: Die Bilder-Finderin . taz, December 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hein, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker and film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin