Anna Hepp studied Educational Theory and Philosophy at the University of Essen, Germany before completing a three year apprenticeship as a photographer. In 2009 she graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with an honors degree in film and arts. She worked on short film portraits for example of the former cultural minister and leader of the Goethe Institute, Professor Hilmar Hoffmann. The film about him was titled Ich möchte lieber nicht (2012).The documentary Rotkohl und Blaukraut (2011) is Hepp's second student project at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She worked on this documentary over a number of years before it premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival 2011 in the section "Perspektive Deutsches Kino".Her successful diploma film Ein Tag und eine Ewigkeit (2009), a 16 mm black and white film about her Grandmother, won eight international awards and was shown at 17 film festivals around the world. Hepp also published her first photo book "Traces" by Darling Publications Cologne in 2010. Since 2000 Hepp's photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions notably the Art Cologne and the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. In April 2012 Anna Hepp took part in the "Artist in Residence Program" of the Goethe Institute in Brazil/Porto Alegre.800 Mal Einsam - ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019) (Eight Hundred Times Lonely - One day with German Filmmaker Edgar Reitz) is Hepp's first long documentary film and debut. It premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in 2019. Show less «