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Hito Steyerl

1966 - Today

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Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. She has been a professor of Current Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2024. Until 2024, she was a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hito Steyerl is the 1,660th most popular film director (down from 1,609th in 2024), the 5,772nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,666th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hito Steyerl ranks 1,660 out of 2,041. Before her are Prachya Pinkaew, Karim Aïnouz, Rick Rosenthal, Todd Solondz, Lisa Cholodenko, and Sergey Mikaelyan. After her are Felix van Groeningen, Gianfranco Rosi, Fernando León de Aranoa, Ari Aster, Shirley Clarke, and Deran Sarafian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Hito Steyerl ranks 484. Before her are Dimitris Lyacos, José Ángel Ziganda, Alfonso Menéndez, Evelyn Wever-Croes, Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves, and Karim Aïnouz. After her are Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Louis Ferreira, Roman Kosecki, Sabine Moussier, Andrew Wood, and Valdas Ivanauskas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hito Steyerl ranks 5,775 out of 7,253. Before her are Heike Henkel (1964), Yann Aurel Bisseck (2000), Robert F. Wagner (1877), Alexander Hacke (1965), Sigi Schmid (1953), and Oliver Reck (1965). After her are Nico Schlotterbeck (1999), Markus Schulz (1975), Reinhold Ewald (1956), Willi Orban (1992), Sabine Moussier (1966), and Peter Wohlleben (1964).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Hito Steyerl ranks 81. Before her are Peter Schamoni (1934), Marcus Nispel (1963), Christoph Schlingensief (1960), Dominik Moll (1962), Caroline Link (1964), and Maren Ade (1976). After her are Rainer Simon (1941), Detlev Buck (1962), Oskar Roehler (1959), Florian Gallenberger (1972), Sebastian Schipper (1968), and Emily Atef (1973).

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