Barbara Albert
Barbara Albert (born 1970) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer. Her feature films include Northern Skirts (1999), Free Radicals (2003), Fallen (2006), Die Lebenden (2012), Mademoiselle Paradis (2017) and Blind at Heart (2023). She was a co-founder of the Austrian production company coop99 and of the Austrian Film Academy.
Barbara Albert

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- Name
- Barbara Albert
- Born
- 1970
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Occupation
- * Film director
- Education
- Film Academy Vienna
- Nationality
- Austria
- Languages
- German
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Barbara Albert (born 1970) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer. Her feature films include Northern Skirts (1999), Free Radicals (2003), Fallen (2006), Die Lebenden (2012), Mademoiselle Paradis (2017) and Blind at Heart (2023). She was a co-founder of the Austrian production company coop99 and of the Austrian Film Academy.
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Barbara Albert was an actress, director and film producer, among other activities, of Austrian nationality. The actress was born in Vienna.
Barbara Albert was educated at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The actress worked for Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg and was a member of Academy of Austrian Film and Deutsche Filmakademie.
Languages used include German. Works are held at Harvard Film Archive.
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Biography
Biography
Since 2023 she has been a professor of directing at the Film Academy Vienna, where she was appointed head of the institute in 2025.
Barbara Albert studied at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Work by Barbara Albert is recorded in the collections of Harvard Film Archive.

Barbara Albert and Karl Markovics during the press conference in advance of the Austrian Film Awards 2011 at the Odeon theater in Vienna.
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Key facts
• Name — Barbara Albert • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • film producer • Education — Film Academy Vienna
Career
Career
Albert was born in Vienna in 1970. She studied German philology, journalism and theatre studies before studying directing and screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna. During her studies she also worked as an assistant director, script supervisor and actor.[1] Her short film Die Frucht deines Leibes was shown in the Finestra sulle Immagini programme at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. Her first feature film as director and screenwriter, Nordrand (1999), follows the friendship between an Austrian woman and a Serbian immigrant in Vienna. It screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival and won both the Vienna Film Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1999 Viennale.[2][3] Lead actress Nina Proll received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for her performance at Venice.[4] In 1999, Albert co-founded the independent production company coop99 with Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda and Martin Gschlacht. In addition to directing her own films, she worked as a screenwriter and producer on other Austrian and European productions. Her credits include producing Darwin's Nightmare, co-writing and producing Jasmila Žbanić's Grbavica, and writing Michael Glawogger's Slumming. Albert's second feature as director, Böse Zellen / Free Radicals, screened in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2003. She followed it with Fallen, which competed at the Venice Film Festival in 2006.[5] In 2009, Albert was among the co-founders of the Austrian Film Academy. Her 2012 feature Die Lebenden (The Dead and the Living), which she wrote, directed and produced, screened in the Official Selection of the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[6] That year she received the Austrian Art Prize for Film for her body of work.[7] In 2013, Albert became professor of feature-film directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, a position she held until 2023.[8] Her next feature, Mademoiselle Paradis (Licht, 2017), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and later competed in the Official Selection at San Sebastián.[9] Albert directed and co-wrote Blind at Heart (Die Mittagsfrau, 2023), an adaptation of Julia Franck's novel Die Mittagsfrau. The film competed at the 2023 Tokyo International Film Festival.[10][11] On 1 October 2023, Albert returned to the Film Academy Vienna as professor of directing, succeeding Michael Haneke. In November 2025, she was appointed head of the Film Academy, succeeding Danny Krausz.[12] In 2024, Albert's television project Sleeping Swans, written by Ulrike Tony Vahl and produced by Martina Haubrich, received the €20,000 Kirch Foundation/HFF Award at the SERIESMAKERS programme of Series Mania.[13]
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
Selected directing, writing and producing credits include: • Year — Title — Role • 1993 — Nachtschwalben — Director • 1996 — Die Frucht deines Leibes — Director, writer, editor, producer • 1999 — Nordrand — Director, writer • 2003 — Böse Zellen / Free Radicals — Director, writer • 2004 — Darwin's Nightmare — Producer • 2006 — Grbavica — Co-writer, producer • 2006 — Slumming — Writer • 2006 — Fallen — Director, writer, producer • 2012 — Die Lebenden (The Dead and the Living) — Director, writer, producer • 2017 — Mademoiselle Paradis (Licht) — Director • 2020 — Quo Vadis, Aida? — Co-producer • 2022 — Funeral for a Dog — Director • 2023 — Blind at Heart (Die Mittagsfrau) — Director, co-writer
Identity
Identity
Barbara Albert is recorded with the occupation film producer. Recorded as screenwriter, film producer, actress, teacher and director.
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Life and career
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Barbara Albert was born on 22 September 1970.
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Barbara Albert was born at Vienna.
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Awards and recognition
• 1999: Vienna Film Award and FIPRESCI Prize at the Viennale for Nordrand.[14] • 2012: Austrian Art Prize for Film.[15] • 2013: Film Award of the City of Hof.[16] • 2024: Kirch Foundation/HFF Award at SERIESMAKERS for the series project Sleeping Swans.[17]
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- 1.Barbara Albert. filmportal.de.
- 2.Nordrand. Österreichisches Filminstitut.
- 3.Festivalarchiv – Wiener Filmpreis. Viennale.
- 4.Nina Proll. filmportal.de.
- 5.Barbara Albert. San Sebastián International Film Festival. 2017.
- 6.2012 Official Selection. San Sebastián International Film Festival. 2012.
- 7.Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Kunstbericht 2012. 71. 2012.
- 8.Barbara Albert neue Institutsleiterin der Filmakademie Wien. Film Academy Vienna.
- 9.Licht / Mademoiselle Paradis. San Sebastián International Film Festival. 2017.
- 10.Blind at Heart. Cineuropa.
- 11.36th Tokyo International Film Festival Guide. Tokyo International Film Festival. 2023.
- 12.Barbara Albert wird neue Institutsleiterin der Filmakademie Wien. Der Standard. 7 November 2025.
- 13.Dalton, Ben. Kevin Macdonald, Barbara Albert and Erik Matti projects win series development prizes at Seriesmakers. Screen Daily. 20 March 2024.
- 14.Nordrand. Österreichisches Filminstitut.
- 15.Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Kunstbericht 2012. 71. 2012.
- 16.Barbara Albert mit Filmpreis der Stadt Hof ausgezeichnet. filmportal.de. 25 October 2013.
- 17.Dalton, Ben. Kevin Macdonald, Barbara Albert and Erik Matti projects win series development prizes at Seriesmakers. Screen Daily. 20 March 2024.
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