Elena Wiener

Elena Wiener is a freelance filmmaker, animation artist and motion designer based in Cologne, Germany. Born in 1991 in Buchen im Odenwald, she studied art history and cultural studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and then audiovisual media design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BA, 2015–2020). Her work moves between experimental live-action film and drawn animation, often combining the two, and deals with politics, identity and gender dynamics. She has worked as a media designer at the University of Freiburg and as an animation film editor, and co-founded Studio Zweisiedlerkrebs in Cologne with Josefine Maier, making films, animation and games.