Mareike Wegener studied film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, documentary filmmaking at the New School in New York and philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Her 2008 thesis film “Al Hansen
– The Matchstick Traveller” premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in
NYC. Her first feature-length documentary "Mark Lombardi –
Death-defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy" premiered theatrically in Germany
in 2012. The same year she joined forces with fellow filmmakers Hannes
Lang and Carmen Losmann to create the production cooperative PETROLIO.
As part of that collaboration Mareike Wegener co-wrote Hannes Lang’s
non-fiction films „PEAK“ (2011), „I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER“
(2014), and „RIAFN“ (2019) and produced Carmen Losmann’s documentary
“OECONOMIA” (2020). In 2021 Mareike Wegener’s short „X” was invited to
the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. It was nominated for a
German Short Film Award (Lola) that same year. „ECHO“ is her first feature
fiction and it is set to premiere in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program at
the 72nd Berlinale.
- ECHO (2022), first feature fiction
- X (2021), short
- OECONOMIA (2020), documentary
- RIAFN (2019), documentary
- I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER (2014), documentary
- PEAK (2011), documentary