Animation Salooon / Nanja Heid and André Feldhaus
Guests at the Salooon are the artist and animator Nanja Heid and the composer André Feldhaus.
Nanja Heid was born in Savigny (Switzerland) in 1985. From 2008 to 2015, she completed an interdisciplinary degree at the University of the Arts Bremen and graduated with a diploma. She has been working as a freelance visual artist and animator since 2016. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and short film events, including in Echizen (Japan), Graz (Austria), Berlin, Leipzig and Bremen. Nanja Heid lives and works in Bremen and has been working at the Zentrum für Kunst since 2024. Her animated films move between art and commerce; she creates commissioned works for detergent advertising as well as for "notruf - Psychologische Beratung bei sexueller Gewalt - Bremen". She has received several awards for her work.
André Feldhaus was born in Münster in 1975. As a teenager, he founded the punk band "Mother's Ruin", with whom he toured and released several singles and albums. He received classical piano training and took lessons in composition, harmony and music theory. He also studied film and television studies and German language and literature in Liverpool and Bremen. Today, André Feldhaus works as a freelance composer for film and television. His filmography currently includes around 140 works for feature films, documentaries and short films, including productions for WDR, NDR, ARTE and independent film production companies.