Dieter Auner, born in 1970 in Medias, then communist Romania. After being released early from the military service in Sibiu, he emigrated to Germany following the mass exodus of the Transylvanian Saxons in the early 1990s. He studied physics at the Fr. Wilhelm University in Bonn and moved to Galway in 1996. Since then he developed as a photographer and filmmaker, focusing on Romania, his lost homeland. Some exhibitions and many publications followed. Throughout the years Dieter officially documented the major arts events in Galway and contributed to many national and international film productions as a stills photographer. The departure of his last relatives from Transylvania in 2001 led to his first feature documentary film, entitled Leaving Translylvania, completed in 2006.
Ireland