Helga
Fanderl
Artist
Helga Fanderl was born in Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1947. Her desire was to become a poet. But after her studies of German and Roman languages and literatures in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt a.M. she decided to become a teacher due to the influence of the Frankfurter Schule (School of Frankfurt). She taught for years before finding out that for her 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 she created a body of work consisting of around thousand short films that she uses for her screenings and also for exhibitions. She lives in Berlin and Paris.
