Veruschka Bódy
Veruschka "Vera" Bódy , née Baksa-Soós , (* 1952 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian filmmaker and author and co-founder of the video art magazine " Infermental ".
biography
From 1970 to 1976 she studied history , philosophy , sinology and art in what was then West Germany and was then a research assistant at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf until 1980 .
In 1980 she married the Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Bódy , with whom she founded the first video art magazine "Infermental" to be published on video cassettes in the same year. Their children Zita and Caspar-Maria Zoltan Leopard are from the marriage . In 1983 she starred in the film "Kutya éji dala", which her husband directed and helped write the script.
After the untimely death of her husband in 1985, she took over the overall coordination of "Infermental" and since 1986 has published several books on video art, including on video. Since 1986 she has been the video commissioner of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen . Since 2000 she has headed the Moholy Nagy Gallery in the Balassi Institute of the Hungaricum of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin.
Web links
- Vera Baksa-Soos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Veruschka Bódy ( Memento from January 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), biography in the Ars Electronica catalog archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bódy, Veruschka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bódy, Vera (nickname); Baksa-Soós, Veruschka (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian filmmaker and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |