Directing
Helga Fanderl
- Born
- Jan 1, 1947 · Age 79
- Place of birth
- Ingolstadt, Germany
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 1
- TV credits
- 0
- Directing credits
- 157
Biography
"I was born in Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1947. My desire was to become a poet. But after my studies of German and Roman languages and literatures in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt a.M. I decided to become a teacher due to the influence of the Frankfurter Schule (School of Frankfurt). I taught for years before finding out that for me film was the appropriate medium of artistic expression. It was not language, but visual art that opened the way to a very personal and intense poetic work. Since 1986 I created a body of work consisting of around thousand short films that I use for my screenings and…
