Harun Farocki was born 1944 in Neutitschein, in what was then part of German-annexed Czechoslovakia. In 1966 he started his study at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Since then he did free-lance work for cinema and television, later on also for art spaces. From 1974 on he was an editor and author of the famous magazin "filmkritik", its last issue came out in 1983. From 1993 to 1999 Farocki was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2004 Farocki is Professor for Media Arts, at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria. In 2006 he curated together with Antje Ehmann the exhibition Cinema as never before, commissioned by the Generali Foundation Wien, Vienna; the exhibtion was presented in an extended version in 2007 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Since 1995 Farocki had many group and solo exhibitions. Harun Farockis ouevre includes more than 100 works.