Panorama

Marieke Steinhoff is a freelance film curator for Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln. She completed her studies in theatre, film and television, German and ethnology at the University of Cologne and in Rome, Italy. While studying, she wrote on a freelance basis for the German film magazine Schnitt, where she later became chief editor. She also became organisational head of Filmplus, the forum for film editing and montage art in Cologne, for two years. Since 2013 she has been working for the ifs internationale filmschule köln, including coordinating the teaching of film and media studies. She’s also involved in the »ifs-Begegnung« film and event series, as well as the film history series Filmgeschichten at the Filmforum NRW in Cologne’s Museum Ludwig. In her curatorial work, Marieke looks at aspects of film heritage and canonisation, archives and diversity as well as young German film.

Vivien Kristin Buchhorn is a curator, film scholar and art historian. She studied in Zurich, Copenhagen and Berlin, and is now based in both Zurich and Berlin.
From 2015 to 2019 she was a key architect of the film programmes at the Berlin Critics’ Week – held to coincide with the Berlinale – which brought a new focus to debates on cinema. She also worked at the Zeughauskino Berlin, in 2016 organising the first major retrospective on Sohrab Shahid Saless. Her research on Saless has progressed in the meantime and will be evident in film restorations in 2022 as well as a publication produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Since 2019, she has been working alongside Merle Kröger and Volker Pantenburg on the situation relating to the television archives in Germany. Symposia held in tandem with arsenal Berlin sought to strengthen calls for the release of television archive material and to foster debate with broadcasters.
Vivien Kristin Buchhorn also works as a dramaturgical consultant, teaches at the Institute of Time-Based Media (IZM) at Berlin University of the Arts, and is a doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich and the Collegium Helveticum. Through the Cooperation Research Lab programme entitled »Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices«, she explores the perspectives of a new artistic historiography.
She joined Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln as a curator in 2021: looking for new forms and formats in experimental and documentary film, she has a special interest in cinema that takes bold aesthetic as well as transnational positions.