Florian Hoffmeier is a director and psychiatric physician. 

 

His artistic and clinical work is based around the question of how families and social systems behave under pressure, how  their power dynamics unfold, and how people construct shared meaning through language and behaviour - or fail to do so. 

 

His debut short film AFUERA was screened internationally and received, among other recognitions, the Best Experimental Short Award at the Berlin Short Film Festival 2023.​

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Alongside his clinical and artistic work, he is the author of the forthcoming book "Consensus – Towards a Language of Mutuality" which investigates the philosophical foundations of moral communication. He also writes critically about normative labels in psychiatry and their implications. 

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After studying Medicine in Germany, Portugal and Brazil, he completed a doctorate at Goethe University Frankfurt's Institute for Social-, Work-, and Environmental Medicine.  For the past ten years he has been working in clinical psychiatry and child- and adolescent psychiatry. 

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As an artist he has created a variety of artworks combining dance, performance art, poetry and theatrical elements. His artistic language is informed by a long-standing education and background in dance and experimental theatre. 

 

His work has received public funding and critical recognition. It involved collaborations with institutions such as the GandhiServe Foundation, the German Association for Socio-Cultural Work (VskA),the European Guild for Culture and Medicine, and the Centre for Arts & Sciences Montevideo GEN.​