Annette Baumeister

Annette Baumeister was born in southern Germany. She studied contemporary history, economic history, social history and German literature at the universities of Augsburg, Grenoble and Munich. As a student, she worked in archives in France, America and Germany. After working as a freelance researcher on the ZDF retrospective "Hundert Jahre", she completed a television trainee-ship at the German-American production company "Story House Productions". Since 2003 she has worked as a freelance writer and director on numerous domestic and international productions. She is specialized in sensitive portraits, cultural and historical themes. In 2013/2014 she was admitted to the Masterclass Non-Fiction of the Internationale Filmschool Cologne (ifs).