Adelheid Heftberger

Adelheid Heftberger is the Deputy Head of the Department for Audiovisual Media at the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) in Berlin. Previously, she worked as a researcher, curator, and archivist at the Brandenburg Center for Media Studies in Potsdam and at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. In 2016, she completed an M.A. in Library and Information Science at Humboldt University of Berlin. Dr. Heftberger currently chairs the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission and is an active advocate of the Open Science movement.