Person Eva Meyer

Eva Meyer, a trained puppeteer and philosopher, began publishing in the late 1970s in Die Schwarze Botin (The Black Messenger), the magazine of the second wave of the German women’s movement, and co-founded Lilith, the women’s bookshop and publishing house in West Berlin. Her work traverses fields such as philosophy, literature, architecture, cinema, cybernetics, and psychoanalysis, introducing modes of thinking and writing that undermine identitarian approaches and enact political theory as storytelling. Expanding her writing practice to film in the late 1990s, she co-authored, with Eran Schaerf, essay films such as Flashforward (2004), and Only Six Can Play This Game (2022). Meyer has held visiting professorships at UC Berkeley, the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and the University of Basel, among others, and was Eberhard Berent Goethe Chair and Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in 2018.