H e n r i k e   M e y e r

Henrike Meyer is an independent filmmaker based in Berlin.

She studied theatre, history of art and comparative literature at the Free Universität Berlin followed by visual communication and art and media at the University of the Arts, Berlin. In 2009, she was on exchange at Cooper Union, NY.

Her mid-length graduation film Feldarbeit and her MFA project Heimsuchung have been shown at several festivals, e.g. Duisburger Filmwoche, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg and Kasseler Dokfest. For her current project To be an Extra, she received the ‘Film/Video-Künstlerinnen’ grant of the Berlin Senat. The project and was selected to Berlinale Doc Station 2017 and the workshop program for debut films dok.art.

Between 2017 and 2018 Henrike Meyer was part of the selection panel of the documentary film festival Duisburger Filmwoche. From 2019 to 2024 she was working with Valeska Grisebach on the director`s upcoming feature Das geträumte Abenteuer. She gives film workshops for spots., the international school program cinema en curs and teaches at MHB Neuruppin and Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.

Filmography

To Be an Extra, 2024
Heimsuchung, 2014
Feldarbeit, 2012
Nach der Saison, 2008
“Ich war hier und habe nicht geschlafen, aber ich habe sie aufgeregt“, 2008

Impressum
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