Werner Schmiedel (*Neuss Germany, lives in Vienna and New York) studied photography with Erich vom Endt at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen; he then attended Ursula Wevers’s video class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until 1980. Starting in the mid-1980s, Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel (*Neuss/Rhein / Germany, lives in Vienna and New York)

collaborated to produce documentary film essays that explore traces of the past and

social and political contexts.