Birgit Hein
German film director

Birgit Hein

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German film director
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6 August 1942(Berlin)
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Birgit Hein (born August 6, 1942) is a German film director, producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films with her husband Wilhelm Hein since the 1960s.

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Hein was born in Berlin in 1942. In 1964, she married Wilhelm Hein, with whom she collaborated on several experimental film projects. In 1968, she co-founded XSCREEN, an exhibition space in Cologne. In 1993, Hein won the German Film Critics Association Best Experimental Film Award for her film Die Unheimlichen Frauen.

Filmography

  • 1967: S & W
  • 1968: Rohfilm
  • 1982: Love Stinks
  • 1986: Washing of The Feet (episode) in Jesus – Der Film
  • 1992: Die Unheimlichen Frauen
  • 1995: Baby, I Will Make You Sweat
  • 2000: La Moderna poesia