Born in Bad Tölz. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He works in an interdisciplinary manner on topics like migration policy, secret services, and the arms industry, their history and current structures, as well as the effects of Nazism on the Federal Republic of Germany.
Exhibitions Lenbachhaus München | Kunst Meran | KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Helmhaus Zürich | Teilnahmen bei Lichter Filmfest, Shnit Worldwide Shortsfestival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Берлін-Ліхтенберг / Berlin-Lichtenberg / Берлин-Лихтенберг | 2024
7:20 min | Video | Ukrainian, English, Russian Intertitles
Images from a home movie from 1943. The filmmaker’s intention to capture moments of family life in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district – his wife and child on a walk, leisure time in a restaurant by the lake – is undermined by unintended content. In the background, a group of female forced laborers on their way to work, barracks of a forced labor camp visible behind the restaurant. The amateur footage was re-edited for the video and given intertitles that contextualize the silent images and provide an additional, fictional layer.
E+P: Franz Wanner