Brigitte Zamzow
Author and Urban Ethnographer
About me
Brigitte Zamzow, perhaps better known as Biggi Zee.
Writing, photographing and moving between urban worlds.
More about meFields of work
Texts, research, images and sound as one connected practice.
Books Die Prüfung
German Matura 2029, BG Wien Mitte. Due to a weather-related incident, the students and teachers are at home, sitting their written exam remotely. Anna lives in a housing estate in the 2nd district, Milli in the 3rd, in an unrenovated old building. Mr Schneutz is supervising from a new-build in the 10th district. Eli is in Hietzing. They are all being examined. But who will make it through the next five hours?
Explore projectBooks Dröhnen im Kopf
Dröhnen im Kopf gathers texts about inner noise, external pressure and the difficult search for a voice of one's own. The project moves between literary notation and social experience.
Explore projectBooks Gowanus: Changing New York
A book project about Gowanus, Brooklyn, and the attempts of a diverse but fragmented neighborhood to hold its ground against hyper-neoliberalized urban governance and financialized economic logics.
Explore projectUrban Research Karlheinz-Hora-Hof
At Karlheinz-Hora-Hof, I ask how young women in particular perceive their access to the city in the new and old parts of the housing complex. I analyze the social space, interview people working in municipal offices and, above all, let the young women speak for themselves.
Explore projectPhotography Berlin Vienna The Modern and the Makaberr
In certain places, both cities are dark and profound: here, the promise of technocratic modernity merges with deeply human fantasies of decay and passing into the past.
View projectSound NYC Soundscapes
Music and sound open another route into text and city: as rhythm, atmosphere, interruption, voice and a means toward memory and memories.
ListenAbout the project
An independent lab for real voices.
Social Climbers brings together literature, urban research, photography and cultural production on an independent platform, focusing on spaces that are rarely allowed to speak for themselves.
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Teaching
Urban ethnography as shared experience.
Workshops and seminars for universities, organizations and institutions.
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