when christian ide hintze died on 10 february 2012, the idea of a portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress had just been born. tina bara – visual artist, professor for photography and the moving image at the university for graphic art and book design in leipzig, and a friend of ide hintze for many years – was interested, as an academic lecturer, in the poetic “split personality” of her poet friend, who – as an anti-academic outsider – had both co-founded the schule für dichtung and also participated in the emergence of a university institute for language art. such dualism of passions within one person must of necessity lead to unconventional forms of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’, above and beyond the institutionalised mediation of knowledge. that is a recurring subject in “builders of poetry worlds”. among others things. dvd (german with english subtitles) + booklet (in english, 34 pages, with numerous illustrations) duration: 68 minutes vienna poetry school: www.sfd.atweiterlesen