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    Sabine Heinlein


    I am a freelance writer, producer and photographer, and a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Rail. My feature pieces and audio productions have appeared in Zing Magazine, The Idler, The Revealer and on B-Side Radio.

    I'm currently a candidate for a Masters in Journalism at New York University, where I study bums, mooches, drifters and writers. In 2001 I earned a Masters Degree in Art History from the University of Hamburg.

    Between 2003 and 2005 I worked as a writer-in-residence for L.E.A.P. (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program), teaching inner city children how to write, interview and photograph. I also led teacher and artist workshops and worked as a program manager, supervising other L.E.A.P. artists and writers and conducting quality control of L.E.A.P. programs in public schools. In 2003 I taught gifted teenagers photography, audio production and portfolio building at the Joan Mitchell Foundation (NYC) and the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens.

    In 2002 I assisted the German artist Karin Sander in the preparation of her conceptual art piece "wordsearch", which was published in the New York Times on Oct. 4th 2002. My task was to search for words in every language spoken in New York City. Along with Franziska Lamprecht and Hajo Moderegger, I explored dubious neighborhoods in New York City, visited all the Missions to the U.N. and led the coordination and correspondence between the artist, the project commissioner (Deutsche Bank), and the word donors.

    From 2000 until 2003 I wrote for the culture sections of various German newspapers, among them Die Zeit (Berlin), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau (Frankfurt) and other publications that are even harder to pronounce for Americans. In 2000 and 2001 I wrote in-depth encyclopedia entries on Roland Barthes, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bruegel, Roman Opalka, Clifford Still, etc. for the Harenberg Literature Encyclopedia and the Harenberg Painter Encyclopedia (published in 2001 and 2002 by Harenberg). One of my essays about American sightseeing was featured in Erlebniswelten (Lit-Verlag 2005).