Heiko Sievers

Heiko Sievers (*1952) studied psychology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and photography at Michael Schmidt’s legendary Workshop for Photography in Berlin-Kreuzberg. After teaching at the Free University for five years, he joined the Goethe-Institut in 1987. He has headed the Goethe-Institutes in Bangalore and Lisbon, the Cultural Programme Department at the institute’s headquarters in Munich, and was the Regional Director of the Goethe-Institutes in Cairo and in New Delhi (2010-2018). He is the co-founder of CIVIC Bangalore, a citizens’ urban advocacy group. He edited Structural Adjustment. Economy, Environment, Social Concerns with Shobha Raghuram and Vinod Vyasulu (Delhi: Macmillan, 1995), Rules, Laws, Constitutions with Satish Saberwal (Delhi: Sage, 1998) and Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant with Bindu Puri (Delhi: OUP, 2007). In Berlin he published a volume of his photographs titled 1980. In Berlin (Peperoni 2016).