Daniel Haingartner
Author | Director | Producer | Musician


Daniel Haingartner (*1984 ) lives and works as a freelance scientist, musician, film and theatre producer, in Vienna and Berlin. Studied cultural and social anthropology in Vienna, guest semester at the Institutes of Philosophy and Musicology, the University of Fine Arts, the University of Economics, and the Medical University.

Between 2008 and 2011 freelance research assistant at the Medical University of Vienna at the Institute „History of Medicine“ with a focus on „Communication of Science via New Media“ and „Shamanism“.

Musician in various formations. Member of the performance group „Popase“, which organizes the series of events „La Petite Orgie“. Collaboration as author/producer in various short and feature films as well as theatre productions.

At the core of my work is the attempt to work on scientific questions artistically. In this way I try to address the rational and emotional level in people. I see my work as research, experiment and method at the same time. Stage and film are seen as a space of experience and a medium for generating knowledge. I am dealing with the phenomena of social transformation and the construction of reality and norms. The underlying question is how humans locate themselves in cultural systems.