1900 - heute
VITA
Professorship for Film Design
at the University of Mainz
since 1998
Managing Director and Spokesman
of the Institute for Media Design - img of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences
since 2010
Awarded among others with the German Video Art Prize of the ZKM Karlsruhe,
including nomination for the German Federal Film Prize, Golden Gate Award, San Francisco.
Member of the German Film Academy
As a film author and director he was engaged after feature film and television play for ZDF (German TV) with the narrativity of new electronic forms in the artistic area and in TV formats.
Feature films
Until the mid-nineties producer of the feature films
"Transit Dreams" by Hartmut Jahn
(Max-Ophüls-Prize, special prize of the festival / Distrib.: WildOkapi)
"The Peanut Man" by Dietmar Klein
(Max Ophüls Prize, Main Award / Distribution: Kinowelt),
"World Champion" by Zoran Solomun
(interfilm Award / Distribution: Basis),
"She'll never make it" by Lih Janowitz
(best up-and-coming actress 1994: Claudia Michelsen).
From the middle of the nineties
Film author and producer for essay and documentary films.
2001 to 2005 artistic director and producer of the short film magazine
"KURZSCHLUSS" (ARTE-TV) for WDR and ZDF.
FLUXUS Archive - 24h Fluxus pioneers and collectors audio-visual, 2002
FLUXUS Archive - 14h Fluxus pioneers and collectors audio-visual, 2012
with Ben Vautier, Nice; Geoffrey Hendricks, Larry Miller, Alison Knowles,
Carolee Schneemann, New York; Emmett Williams, Berlin; Eric Andersen,
Copenhagen; Ben Patterson, Wiesbaden; Willem de Ridder, Amsterdam; Mary
Bauermeister, Cologne; Philip Corner, Reggio; Takako Saito, Düsseldorf; Daniel
Spoerri, Vienna; Jon Hendricks, MoMa NY; René Block; Michael Berger; Gino di
Maggio.
until 2000
Teaching assignments
at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
University of the Arts Bremen
Seminars for the Goethe-Institute
including Lima, New Delhi, Pune, Marseille, Hong Kong, Montevideo
1988 - 1991
Research assistant
at the Institute for Audiovisual Media (AMI)
of the University of Hildesheim, Prof. Dr. Jan Berg
1983 - 1995
Co-foundation of the artists studio "Confu-Baja-Video" in Berlin
with Gerd Conradt, Monika Funke, Hanno Baethe
since 1978
Work with video film installation photography
1974 - 1980
Study of art education and educational science in Hannover (PH) and
Berlin (FU/UdK), state examinations and diploma
