Gesa Marten studied theatre-, film- and television-science and German studies in Munich and Cologne. She graduated with an M.A. degree. Since 1991 she is a freelance film editor and dramaturge for documentary film/art. Her editing work has received several awards. Since 2014, she represents the professorship “Artistic Montage Feature and Documentary Film” at the Film University Babelsberg, where she has been a member of the board at the Institute for Artistic Research since 2015. In autumn/winter 2017/18 she was “Visiting Filmmaker” at ZHdK. Gesa Marten is also a member of the German and European Film Academies as well as the German Association for Film and Television Dramaturgy (VeDRA) and the Federal Association of Film Editing (BFS Bundesverband Filmschnitt). Gesa Marten lives and works near Berlin.