Helga Reidemeister was born in Halle/Saale in 1940 and received her school-leaving certificate in Cologne in 1959. She studied Fine Art at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1961-1965 and was a social worker in "Maerkisches Viertel", a highrise estate on the outskirts of Berlin, from 1968-1973. She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin from 1973-78 and began making documentaries in 1971.

Her films include: "Wohnste sozial, haste Qual" (1971), "Der gekaufte Traum" (1977), "Mit starrem Blick aufs Geld" (1983), "Drehort Berlin" (1987), "Aufrecht gehen", "Rudi Dutschke – Spuren" (1988), "Im Glanze dieses Glueckes" (1990), "Rodina heisst Heimat" (1991), "Frauen in schwarz" (in co-direction with Zoran Solomun, 1997), "Lights From Afar" ("Lichter aus dem Hintergrund", 1998) and "Gotteszell" (2001).

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH