Biography

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Heike Endter is an independent scholar and author. She completed a vocational training as a typographic designer. After that she studied art history, journalism and classical archaeology at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Having completed her MA thesis on "Death and Photography", she went to Munich where she became an art critic for national German newspapers and international art magazines. In addition she began working as an author for an art gallery in Munich. She wrote her PhD thesis about science-fiction-films and received a doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland).

Heike Endter works in the field of visual studies and media theory. She has given presentations on her academic work in Lausanne (Switzerland), Zurich, Amsterdam, Oxford and Limerick (Ireland). Beside many essays, she published a book on economic utopias and their images in science-fiction-films, another on the motive of migration in westerns and a third on the German conceptual artist Stefan Demary. Under the title „choosen“ she is currently writing about the connections between spirituality and power as to be found in different genres of art. With a partner she leads an urban garden project near Munich.