Interests: Documentary and Ethnographic Films, Cultural Anthropology, Representations of Death in the Feature Film
Bio: Wilma Kiener graduated from the Munich Film School, and received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Munich, with her book: The Art of Storytelling. The Narrative Mode in Documentary and Ethnographic Films. (1999). Since 2002 she is a lecturer for Cultural Anthropology at the University of Munich, and for film and video at the University of Applied Sciences and Technology in Salzburg, Austria. In 2002 she held workshops for the Goethe- Institut in Kabul and Beirut. After receiving a scolarship from the equal-opportunities-programm at the Munich University, she now is a Post-Doctoral-Fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies in Munich. Her documentaries include (selection): "A Dream of Kabul" (1996), "Three Lives - Friderike, Lotte and Stefan Zweig" (1993), "IXOK - WOMAN" (1990), "Codename Schlier" (1985); leading role and screenplay collaboration "The Backward Roll" (1982). Post-Doctoral Project (Habilitation): "Representations of Death in the Feature Film. A Cultural-Comparative Study".