Maike Mia Höhne studied visual communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Havana as well as the Escuela Internacional de Cine Television in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba. After stays in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she completed her post-graduate studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg with a focus on film. She works as a curator and juror for several institutions and festivals worldwide and is involved in film funding on a regional and national level. From 2007 to 2019 she was head of Berlinale Shorts of the Berlin International Filmfestival. Ho?hne is a professor for film at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in Hamburg. She also teaches Filmtheorie and making at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since March 2019, she has been the artistic director of the Hamburg Short Film Festival.

Filmography 3/4 (2014), Warum wir waren was wir waren (2011), Eine einfache Liebe (2005), Von der Hingabe (2002), Fin de siglo (1998), Petit Voyage (1996)