Nanna Heidenreich

Nanna Heidenreich has been a professor of Digital Narratives – Theory at the ifs internationale filmschule köln since October 2016. In the summer of 2016, she served as a visiting professor of Media Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim, and from 2011 to 2016 she was a research associate at the Institute for Media Research at the Braunschweig University of Art. In addition, she has been a curator of the Forum Expanded program at the Berlinale since 2009 (together with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Director), Anselm Franke, Khaled Abuldwahed (since 2016), and Ulrich Ziemons), and since November 2015 she has served as a curator and advisor for the House of World Cultures on the topics of migration, displacement, and immigration (including “The Present Age of Monsters. What Comes After Nations?” and “Sound Traces”). In addition, she curates independent film and video projects, particularly at the intersections of politics & cinema / art. She has published numerous works (books, articles, DVD editions) in the fields of critical migration studies, visual culture, postcolonial theory, politics/art/cinema, and alternative cinema (feminist, queer, experimental). She also translates from English (art/theory/film) and, until 2009, was involved in performance productions and other interventions with the anti-racist network Kanak Attak. She is part of the Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research, and since 2016 has been involved in preparing the tribunal “Dissolve the NSU Complex.” Main areas of work: migration, postcolonial media theory, politics of the image, video theory, art/film & politics, queer theory, anti-racism, alternative cinema. She lives in Berlin.
http://nannaheidenreich.net/