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Installation Heisenberg 2018.09 Art Berlin ©LP _MG

The Artist

Benjamin Heisenberg’s immersive installation “Die Zwölf Geschworenen” (Twelve Angry Men) (2007-2020) explores the interrelations of the artist’s imprinting and self-perception at the interweave of personal, family, and national history. Video works, pictures and historical artifacts form an environment that is evidence of Heisenberg’s incessant, active process of self-reflection. The installation is made up of a series of suitcases and boxes, all of which come from the attic of Heisenberg’s grandmother and great-grandmother’s house and contain objects and newspaper clippings that evoke significant moments and eras. Twelve little ‘men’ with a magnifying glass for a head are placed throughout the s

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Born: 1974 in Tübingen. 1993-99 Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. 1995-97 Assistant to Prof. dr. Grasskamp, Department of Art History. 1997-2005 Studies of Film Directing at the University of Television and Film, Munich. 1998 Co-Founder of the film magazine „Revolver“ together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutzli, since then co-publisher and editor. 1999 Diploma in Free Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts. 2005 Diploma in Film Directing at the University of Television and Film, Munich. Since 1999 freelance director, author and visual artist. Since 2010 various teaching activities at film schools in Berlin, Potsdam, Munich, Vienna and Zürich. Since 2015 in the presidium of the German Protestant Kirchentag. 2023 spring semester interim professorship for film directing at the ZHDK (for Prof. Sabine Boss)

Participation and awards at numerous film festivals and exhibitions, including Berlinale Competition & Panorama Special, Cannes Film Festival, Official Selection “Un Certain Regard”.
The novel „Lukusch“ (C.H.BECK) was release

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The Robber (2010)

Benjamin Heisenberg was born in 1974 in Tübingen, Germany. He grew up in small village near Würzburg where his father was professor of neurobiology at the local university. After finishing school in 1993 he went to study at the academy of fine arts in Munich. In 1995 he became assistant of Walther Grasskamp the professor for history of art at the art academy. He finished the academy of fine arts in 1998, winning the "Debütantenpreis" for the three best students of the year. He exhibited several art videos before he came to write, direct and shoot his first narrative short film "Terremoto" in 1996. These first experiences with film convinced him to go into filmmaking. From 1997 to 2005 Benjamin Heisenberg studied film directing at the Munich Filmschool. Since then he has written and directed a number of feature films that have won a variety of international film awards.

BornJune 9, 1974