АNJA KREIS

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(real name Anna Kruglova) since 2011 is student of KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) in Cologne, Germany.

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She was born on 7 March, 1988 in Angarsk, Irkutsk region, in Russia. 1998 - 2005 she studied at the Gymnasium A.N. Ostrovsky and graduated it with honors. In parallel, she graduated 7 classes of the local music school, class piano.

 

In 2005 she entered the Ivanovo State University on the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, where she studied German language and literature. In 2010 she graduated with honors, completing a thesis on the works of Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek.

 

Immediately after graduation went to Germany, Hildes-heim, where she did the voluntary social year at a school for children with disabilities, in the same year entered the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where she graduated with honor.

 

Her graduation film "Scythe hitting stone" (Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and Film and Medien-Stiftung NRW) had his premiere in the competition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (25 May-3 June, Cluj-Napoca).