Barbara Alpert

Description: Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film producer, and film director. She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life for Yugoslavian children in Vienna. She heads the production company Coop 99 with Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda, and Martin Gschlacht, among others. Her films were screened in Venice (Nordrand, 1999), Locarno (Free Radical, 2003), and Toronto (Mademoiselle Paradis, 2017). As of 2024, she is a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy.

Profession: Austrian writer