Hartmut Jahn is a German artist, film-director and author in the field of media. He has been appointed Professor in the Media Design department at Mainz University of Applied Sciences in 1998. Since 2011 he has been director / speaker of the Mainz Institute of Media Design - img.
(http://img.hs-mainz.de)
He is known for his experimental narrative and documentary work, later for ARTE-TV and in audio-visual media. He has gone on to work in directing and producing feature films for cinema and ZDF.
His media arts and movie credits include the German Video Award by ZKM Karslruhe winning "Nude Model: Inge /Akt: Inge", the Max Ophüls Special Prize winning feature length "Dreams of Transition/Transitträume", the Max Ophüls Main Award winner "Shaky, the Peanut-Man / Der Erdnussmann" and German Film Prize Nomination "Berlin Blue / Berliner Blau".
Hartmut started out with undergraduate studies in fine arts and media design education in Hanover followed by a Diploma degree in fine arts and educational sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin. He became a lecturer at Goethe-Institute in HongKong, New Delhi, Marseille and Barcelona and a lecturer at German Film Academy (DFFB) from 1987 through 1993. He became research assistant at Institut für AV-Medien at University of Hildesheim.
He completed documentary work on the 50th birthday of FLUXUS in 2012. His installation "The New Owners of the Berlin Wall" was shown in november 2014 in Zeughaus-Kino, Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. He has been nominated to the european COST-Action Management Committee (MC) for the project "Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage - COSCH" (2012-2016). Recently he is in research of landscape, photography and 360° video.