ALEXANDRA KAMP
ALEXANDRA KAMP
(*1966, Baden-Baden) won a national recitation contest at the age of eleven. After high school she studied acting in Paris at LES COURS FLORANT and in New York with Stella Adler. She celebrated her cinema debut in 1998 in the French arthouse film RICHES, BELLES ET CRUELLES starring Claudia Cardinale, followed by other international films, where she has played opposite Steven Seagal, Anouk Aimée, Marisa Berenson, Rosel Zech, Benjamin Sadler, Uwe Ochsenknecht and others. Hape Kerkeling recognized her comic talent and engaged her for the main female part in the cinema movie ISCH KANDIDIERE. Alongside film and theatre projects, her great love is literature. She lent her voice to the audiobook version of Henry Miller’s SEXUS (published by Deutsche Grammophon)and participated with it in the International Literature Festival in Berlin and the International Theatre Festival in Bielefeld.
Her current project is the lead in the German premiere of the stage play EINE VERHÄNGNISVOLLE AFFÄRE (Fatal Attraction) at the Hamburg Kammerspiele in the role of Alex Forrest (played by Glenn Close in the film). It is planned to reopen the play on 8 April 2021.
SIBYLLE FENDT
(*1974, Karlsruhe) 1993–1995 Master’s programme in art history, sociology and philosophy at Karlsruhe University. 1996–2002 photography studies at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. 2003 Swart Masterclass, Word Press Photo Foundation. 2004–2006 guest study programme at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main with Wolfgang Tillmans. 2008–2019 lecturer at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2010. Published GÄRTNERS REISE (Gardner’s Trip), Kehrer Verlang, Heidelberg, in 2012. 2019–2020 administrative professor at Hochschule Hannover in the discipline of photojournalism and documentary photography. 2020 group exhibition TRAUERN (Mourning), Kunsthalle Hamburg; publication HOLZBACHTAL, NOTHING, NOTHING, a book about waiting and nothingness in the refugee camp H8 in the Black Forest. Published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg.