Werner Nekes

Year of birth, place
1944, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Year of death, place
2017, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Role at the ZKM
in the collection
Biography

Werner Nekes was a German film director and collector of objects on the prehistory and early history of audiovisual media and media art from the last five centuries. He taught as a professor for film and media art in Hamburg, Offenbach, Wuppertal and Cologne.