Friederike Anders

Born in Hamburg in 1958, studied painting at the HfBK Hamburg from 1979 to 1980 • 1980–81 San Francisco Art Institute, video and performance • 1983–88 German Film and Television Academy Berlin • Video editor since 1985 • 1987 Interactive video game “MUTABOR 3” (part of VideoLabyrinth) • 1990 Directed short television play (Die Patriarchin) • Since 1992 Artistic collaborator at the Media Center of the HdK Berlin • Publications: 1993 “Die Chimaere im Spiegel Ihrer Bewunderer” in “Feministische Streifzuege durchs Punkte-Universum-Medienkunst von Frauen,” ed. Heidi Hutschenreuter, edition Filmwerkstatt

Videography: 1981 “Skin Life Beauty,” with Katarina Peters • 1982-86 “Learning to like Winning” • 1984 “Zeichenleere (mode two)” • 1985 “Sterntaler” • 1985 ‘Mutabor’ • 1987 “Mutabor 3, Ablaufsimulation A” • 1987-89 “Mutabor 3, Interactive Video Game, Part of VideoLabyrinth” • 1988 “Im Garten der Erinnerung - die Patriarchin” • 1990 “Die Patriarchin,” short television play, ZDF • 1994 “Die Farbe Braun,” part of the trilogy “Pfui - Unzucht und Ordnung in Deutschland” • 1996 “Das Gedaechtnis der Frau in Weiss,” trailer show

Festival and exhibition participation (selection): 1985, 87 European Media Art Festival • Edge 88, Air Gallery, London and Museum Ludwig 89, NBK 1989 (VideoLabyrinth), Femmes Cathodiques '89 (1st prize for “Im Garten der Erinnerung”) • 1989 New American Makers, San Francisco • L.A.C.E. Los Angeles • 1990 Izmir Video Festival • Festival del Popoli • Silence, elles tournent, Montreal 1989, 93 • Other Cinema, San Francisco • 1991 Video accompanying program for “30 Years of Art from Berlin,” Riga, St. Petersburg • 1989, 90, 94 WorldWide Video Festival The Hague • 1991, 94 Videonale Bonn • 1994 International Leipzig Documentary Film Week/German Series • 1986, 87, 94 International Forum of Young Film, Videofest Berlin • 1989, 95 (1st prize for “Pfui—Unzucht und Ordnung in Deutschland”) • 1996 Videofest Berlin