Thomas Heise

After a year in the National People's Army, Heise worked as a director's assistant between 1975 and 1978 in East Germany's DEFA Film Studios, finishing his final exams at night school.

All of his early documentary films were banned or prohibited from screening by the East German government, as well as his radio works.

[3] In December 1989, four weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, his radio feature Widerstand und Anpassung - Überlebensstrategie.

[4] After the fall of the Wall, Heise finally became known, creating a number of disputed works, on topics affecting his country, such as the radical right-winged youth movement in Halle.

Heise continued to live and work in Berlin and as a film professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2007.