Birgit Hein (born 6 August 1942) is a

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, producer,

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ist,

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, and

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who has made

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s since 1960s, with her then husband Wilhem Heim.Foster, p.176

Biography

Hein was born in

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in 1942. With her structural films (since 1966), performances, documentary film essays and film study publications, she is considered one of the decisive pioneers of German underground and

s. In 1964, she married Wilhelm Hein (Separated in 1988, divorced in 1995), with whom she collaborated on several experimental film projects. In 1968, she co-founded XSCREEN, an exhibition space in

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. In 1993, Hein won the German Film Critics Association Best Experimental Film Award for her film '' Die Unheimlichen Frauen''. 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 producing films and working on performances with him. She was represented with two film works, together with Wilhelm Hein within

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in 1972, a worldwide exhibition of influential art after

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. Their combined work was presented in different retrospectives, e.g. in the Anthology Archives, New York (1974), in the Filmmuseum Frankfurt (1985) as well as in Cologne (1988) and in

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(1989). In the 1970s they organized and curated of several exhibitions on experimental film, e.g. Art Remains Art (Cologne 1974), Film As Film (Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart 1977) and Film As Film (London 1979). For the Goethe-Institut they toured in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India (1987) and took part in the International Experimental Film Congress Toronto (1989). In Cologne she was art founder of XScreen for subculture performances and program work for diverse cinemas. In the 1970s, she taught film art assignments at various universities (including the Cologne factory schools). She undertook a number of important curatorial projects, including the groundbreaking film section at Documenta VI. Birgit Hein has been a professor at the Braunschweig University of Art since 1990, retiring in 2007. Many premieres of her films at the

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(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). She has had several exhibitions of her works, e.g. Montreal 2000, Rotterdam 2000, Madrid 2002 and the Arsenal Berlin 2003. Since 2007 she has been a member of the

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Berlin, and since 2012 she has been deputy director of the visual arts section.

Filmography

*1967: '' S & W'' *1968: '' Rohfilm'' *1969: 625, 16 mm, 34 Min *1978–82:

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, Filmperformance *1982: '' Love Stinks'' *1986: Verbotene Bilder, 16 mm, 87 Min *1986: ''Washing of The Feet (episode) in Jesus – Der Film'' *1987–88: Die Kali-Filme, 16 mm, 70 Min *1992: '' Die Unheimlichen Frauen'' *1995: '' Baby, I Will Make You Sweat'' *1997: Eintagsfliegen, Video, 24 Min *2000: ''

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'' *2006: Kriegsbilder, Video, 10 Min *2013: Abstrakter Film, Video, 10 Min

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