Klaus Hoefs

Klaus Hoefs serves as Professor of Media Informatics and Dean of Faculty 3 (FB3) at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, where he leads the Department of Information and Communication. He teaches in the Film & Media Arts program and oversees organizational units including the Media-Center Flensburg (IMMZ) and Foley Studio.

His research focuses on hand-drawn animation as communication medium, blending media informatics with cultural narratives. Hoefs creates films exploring Northern German coastal landscapes through political, historical, and cultural lenses, emphasizing raw authenticity and nuanced storytelling via self-composed songs and sketch-style visuals. His work challenges clear moral binaries and rewards repeated viewing through layered information density.

Recent creative outputs demonstrate consistent thematic evolution: films like Devil at the End of Summer (2022) and Four Songs From a Dark Coast (2019) merge regional identity with universal questions about good/evil dichotomies, utilizing rainy Northern German atmospherics as narrative devices within animation frameworks.

His achievements include:

• Animation Category Award at Flensburg Short Film Festival 2022
• International exhibition at Kunsthalle Trier's 'Nordlicht - Northern Light' (2021)

Hoefs directs the Media-Center Flensburg (IMMZ) and serves as primary contact for the Foley Studio, driving interdisciplinary media projects and the university's first film degree program launched in 2022.