Who is Eva Munz?

I’m a freelance writer, filmmaker, and educator with a soft spot for aesthetics, propaganda, feminism, cults, and psychoanalysis. I organize memory through the lens of cinema. I’ve been called names. Troublemaker is one of my favorites. I’m hardwired to question the status quo, and where some suspect conflict, I see discourse. Although I write for established media, I’m always game for copywriting, company communications, website content, your grandmother’s funeral speech, or love letters. I believe in ghosts and ghostwriting. Please hire me!

Where has she been published?

My writing has been published in magazines such as VOGUE, PIN-UP, Interview, Lufthansa magazine, VICE, Bidoun, die dame, and newspapers like Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Zeit, in her own glossy zine ILikeMyStyle. I’m a columnist at Axel Springer’s intellectual flagship, Welt am Sonntag. The trice-weekly pieces reflect my passion for long-distance running in New York City and all the complicated stuff associated with inhabiting a woman’s body.

What’s up with The New School?

As an adjunct professor at The New School’s Parsons School of Design, together with students and future innovators, we’re discussing some of the urgent questions of our times, from social justice and diversity to sustainability. In the course Creative Team Dynamics: Identity and Change, we envision new pathways of co-creation while remaining critical, independent thinkers. In the course Navigating the Field, we engineer networking tools and narrative frameworks for students to launch their careers.

Is she a filmmaker or a writer?

I’m a multi-disciplinary media professional using creative writing techniques across a variety of platforms. In my over 20 years of professional experience, I’ve put together and led diverse teams across the world. I studied Communications and Political Sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and later in the prestigious directing program at the Munich Academy of Film and Television (HFF). My short films and screenplay writing often explores feminism and science fiction. In Asia, I made a living directing TV commercials for Pan-Asian markets.

Where is she really from?

I’m a German citizen. My father was an immigrant from Romania, my mother is German. I spent my wild and happy childhood in southern Italy and went to school in France for a while. I worked on a movie in Switzerland and the UK before taking off to New Delhi in the late 90s. Later, I moved to Bangkok with extended stints in Kathmandu, Shanghai, and Sri Lanka. There were always bags to be packed and flights to board. Swimming in the Persian Gulf under the stars was fun, and the International Film Festival of Pyongyang was life-changing. I write in German and English and speak Italian, French, and Thai. I’m now happily based in New York City with my Green Card and collection of artificial eyes.

Wait!? She actually went to the DPRK?

When George W Bush coined the term Axis of Evil in his 2002 State of the Union Address, I vowed to visit all of them within five years. I started with Iran and North Korea but ultimately fell short of my target.

What else does she do?

I’m a long-distance runner and a sleepwalker.