Rotraut Pape
Rotraut Pape (10 April 1956, Berlin - 14 April 2019, Berlin) was a filmmaker, artist and Professor for Film/Video at the University of Art and Design, HfG Offenbach. She studied Fine Art at HFBK (University of Fine Arts in Hamburg) with a focus on film, video and computer generated works. Becoming a master in camera, software and editing techniques and tools, her main interest was in the artistic potential of moving image, to raise critical social, political and ethical questions. Performance and installation played an important role in her work, as did theatrical representation and interactive experimentation.
Parallel to Pape’s artistic work, she realized numerous experimental documentaries for television (Arte/3Sat/ZDF), focusing on the subversive role of subcultures within a larger cultural landscape. Her work toured internationally and she held several workshops, lectures and teaching post at numerous institutions. A founding member of the Hessian Film and Media Academy (hFMA) and co-founder and curator of the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt and Kassel Dokfest, alongside her own work, Paper contributed significantly to several artist collectives such as Raskin, Frigo, Infermental. (2019)
- Links
- Website (2001)
- Filmklassepape, HfG Offenbach, 2011-2018. (archived)
- ZKM
- n.b.k.
- Tributes: hFM Akademie, Kasseler Dokfest.
- Wikipedia-DE
