Team 2026
The International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia is an annual festival dedicated to the genres of poetry film and video poetry. The center of the festival is the presentation of the Weimar Poetry Film Award at the Lichhaus cinema. The festival wants to stimulate and perpetuate the exchange between literature and media art, between filmmakers and authors in Thuringia and Central Germany. Weimar is a place of literature and art, and a city of great poets and poetry. It lends itself particularly well to such an ambition. The festival is characterized by the close connection between an international competition, its own film production, and the Poetry film magazine.
Ana Vallejo
Festival Director and Curator / Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Paper Plane Animation
Ana is an animator and filmmaker. She loves papercuts, collage and experimental films. She’s co-founder of the Weimar Animation Club. She curates together with Guido Naschert the competition. She teaches at the Bauhaus-Universität. and is co-founder of Paper Plane Animation.
Photo: Nathalia Azuero
Catalina Giraldo Vélez
Festival Director / Production and Art Director / Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Catalina is a visual designer and animator and part of the direction team where she takes care of keeping all strings together in the planning of the festival. In addition, she also coordinates our design team and curates with Ana Vallejo the special program “Bauhaus Poetry Shorts”. She’s co-founder of the Weimar Poetry Film Award and teaches at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Photo: Nathalia Azuero
Guido Naschert
Festival Director and Curator / Literary Society of Thuringia
Guido is the festival’s director and manages the Literary Society of Thuringia. Together with Aline Helmcke and Catalina Giraldo he founded the the Weimar Poetry Film Award and with Aline Helmcke the “Poetry film Magazine”. He curates the competition, as well as the international program.
Photo: Nathalia Azuero
Anne Rieke
Public relations
Anne is studying Media and Cultural Studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. This year, she is in charge of the festival’s public relations.
Anya Ryzhkova
Curator "New Talents"
Anya is an animator, masters student at Bauhaus University Weimar and responsible for design and animation in our social media team. She curates the special international program “New Talents” together with Lucien Sieber.
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Elijah Aran
Social Media Intern - Literary Society of Thuringia
Foto: Trevor Johnson
Florian Rommel
Production
Florian is part of the production team and ensures that the technical aspects of the festival run smoothly.
Hanna Steckl
Social Media
Hanna studies Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. They are part of the Social Media team for this year’s festival.
Katherin Gutiérrez Herrera
Illustration | visual Identity
Katherin, who holds a Master of Fine Arts from Bauhaus University Weimar, is responsible for the visual style of our festival’s eleventh edition. Her illustrations and striking textures reflect this year’s ‘spoken word’ theme.
Lucien Sieber
Curator "New Talents"
Lucien studies Art Education at Bauhaus-Universität and has been curating the special international program “New Talents” with productions from the universities since last year.
Marie Brandstetter
Social Media
Marie studies Media Art at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and is part of
the social media team for this year’s festival.
Nicolás Concha
Web development
Rokzog is in charge of web development and takes care that our website works without problems.
Nicolás Quintero Mosquera
Web / Production
Nicolás is a musician and sound artist who studies Media Arts and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He helps update our website and is part of the production team for this year’s screenings.
Sebastian Giraldo - Bitghost
Sound Design & Music
Bitghost is an electronic music project from Bogotá, Colombia. Bitghost produces all music tracks and creates the sound design for our trailer and during the screenings at the theater.
Tara Thomson
Animation & Social Media
Tara studies media art and design at Bauhaus University and is part of the social media team.
