Oliver Held was born in 1970 in Aachen. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Muenster and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1991-1999, followed by post-graduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne from 1999-2001. Since 2000, he has been instructing Film at the University of Siegen. His films include the shorts: "Haider "96" (1996), "Silent Ponds" ("Stille Weiher", 1998), and "Spring" (2002).

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