Lockdown, curfews, canceled flights, and online teaching: These are all not perfect conditions for a semester abroad, in which the focus is, after all, on exchanging ideas with other students...
Filipa César and Diana McCarty, two filmmakers and media activists, have been jointly appointed to a professorship of Film and Video at Merz Akademie. In their artistic work, the duo...
The 2020 Audience Award of the Drehbuchpreis Schleswig-Holstein goes to Phoebe Ammon for BOMBENGRANATENEVENTS. Congratulations! In 2020, the third edition of the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Award took place under special circumstances....
The documentary animation film, a Chinese-French co-production, deals with China’s one-child policy from the perspective of two young girls and thus has a very personal connection to the filmmaker’s history.
China has a long tradition in the field of animation, which is increasingly being recognized internationally. Weijia Ma uses experimental animation techniques in her work to explore narratives of contemporary...
20 years professor at the Merz Akademie! In a corona-secure celebration at the end of the 2020 summer semester, the Merz Akademie bid farewell to Christoph Dreher, Professor of Film...
I definitely want to spend the internship abroad. That was clear to Merz Akademie student Lucas from the very beginning of his studies. Above all, the development of his own...
Merz Akademie student Raphaela had decided to spend her internship abroad: I would also like to work abroad after completing my Bachelor’s degree and therefore wanted to use the time...
What happens if something is taken from you that you consider your property? The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker and Merz Akademie lecturer Andreas Geiger, who inherits a...
Ten of our film students have created, pursued and implemented their own task. The film “Mondmädchen” is a non-university project, the location was the Lapidarum in Stuttgart. Student Laura Höpflinger...