Anja Meixner was born 1966 in Würzburg, Germany. Meixner is living with her son alternately in Würzburg and Cologne, Germany, and in Sydney, Australia.

Short Biography

Already during her studies at Cologne university Meixner discovered the media “film” and “photography”, stimulated by her social work with gypsy kids, who were not allowed to go to school and learn to read and write

After her masters degree in Anthropology, Meixner is convinced that you can come closer to any conclusions about a foreign culture or rather the human conditions through the methods of the arts. She is doing a lot of courses in film and photography at famous universities such as Göttingen, Rockport, Maine, at AFTRS, the Australian Film- and Televisionschool in Sydney, the ACP, Australian Center for Photography and Nida. She is writing ,directing and producing a music video clip with the famous jazz singer Leni Stern, working as a set photographer with several Australian and German film productions. Her photography is taken at many different scenes - Asia, Australia and New Zealand, different South Pacific Islands, Africa, North- and South America and Europe. Her favourite topics are the complexity of gender, the estrangement of the human being from nature and from oneself; the ambiguity of the representation of power and its fragility; the production of life as a big party; in this process she takes photos of landscape and cities which are reminding of paintings of romanticism. Her exhibitions take place mainly in Sydney (a.o. at the Goethe Institute), Cologne and Würzburg. Malerei erinnern. For her film “Out of the Womb” she gets the student Oscar for “Outstanding Achievement in Directing” by Sydney University.
Für ihren Kurzfilm „Out of the Womb“ erhält sie den „Oscar“ für Drehbuch und Regie der Sydney University.

Since several years Meixner is showing more and more digital artwork of highly intense imagination and deepness, e.g. in "Kulturspeicher" in Würzburg.

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