Florian Hoffmeier is psychiatric physician and director who's work spans from experimental dance into theatre and film. 

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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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Parallel, he has staged around a dozen experimental dance- and theatre works. His debut short film AFUERA 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 writes texts about the social consequences of psychiatric diagnostic labels – and other questions at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. 

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His work has received public funding and critical recognition. It involved collaborations with institutions such as the GandhiServe Foundation, the Cultural Centre Ufa-Fabrik in Berlin and the Centre for Arts & Sciences Montevideo GEN.​