Bio
Julia Tieke works with ‘text, sound & around’ and is based in Berlin. She has studied cultural studies at the University of Hildesheim where she taught radio drama and feature 2002-2006. Since 2007, she is the project director of Wurfsendung, an ultra short radio art format on public radio Deutschlandradio Kultur. Since 2009, her works intensively deal with cultural and political aspects of the Middle East. Her latest works comprise a radio documentary about the German jihad program in WWI (2014), a published chat between her and the Syrian activist Faiz on his way to Germany as a refugee, and a radio adaptation of Abbas Khider’s next novel (2015). She cooperated with Berit Schuck in their audio projects ‘Alexandria Streets Project’ (2012), ‘Speaking of Beirut and the City is Missing’ (Beirut Art Center, 2013), and ‘Trading Urban Stories’ (Marrakech Biennale, 2014).