Maren Niemeyer: Through other eyes
Shock and Awe - Images of War between Documentation and Ideology
Maren Niemeyer, executive director of LOLA, a show for women on the television station Arte, has first-hand experience in war reporting: During the Golf War in 1991, she worked for CNN in the USA and in 1999 she reported from Kosovo for Kulturreport on the German public station ARD. While screening her reports as both broadcast and uncut material, Niemeyer will speak on the limits of production - the hasty, often censored media images - and offer alternatives to such problems. Her report on the war photographer Anja Niedrighaus dedicates the question of whether »female war reporters make different images of war than their male colleagues and of whether men and women are different in their assessment of war.« This statement also addresses her own work.
Born in 1964 in Bremen, Niemeyer studied journalism and television in Paris and Berlin. She has worked as a journalist and writer since 1986 for the German television stations ARD, ZDF, PRO 7, PREMIERE and the German/French art station ARTE. In 1991 Maren Niemeyer spent several months in the USA as an Arthur F. Burns scholar.