SABINE
HEINLEIN
I
am a freelance writer, podcast producer and photographer. My work has
appeared in the Brooklyn
Rail, Zing
Magazine, The
Idler, The
Revealer, City Limits and NYU Alumni Magazine. My audio work was featured on B-Side Radio and ARTINFO.com. I have also written for Die
Zeit, Süddeutsche
Zeitung, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter
Rundschau and other publications that are even
harder to pronounce for Americans.
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, conduct interviews 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. Other residencies I have
been invited to include Artcroft (Kentucky, 2008) and Yaddo (New York,
2009). I
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 nearly all the Missions to the U.N. and participated in the
coordination and correspondence between the artist, the project
commissioner (Deutsche Bank), and the word donors.
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).
I
hold a Masters of Arts in Journalism from New York University (2007)
and a
Masters of Arts in Art History from the University of Hamburg, Germany
(2001). I was invited to speak at symposiums at Lueneburg University
and at The New School and to read at the Bowery Poetry Club (Rant Rhapsodies
2007). I won the Sidney Gross Memorial Award for
Investigative Reporting in 2007 and was awarded a NYFA fellowship for nonfiction literature in 2009.
I am
married to the greatest artist and funniest human being in the world,
Giovanni Garcia-Fenech. After many years in Brooklyn we recently moved
to Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, absolutely the best neighborhood in
New York.