Born in Austria, Dagmar Streicher spent her childhood and teenage years in Styria and Vienna. She left her home country several times and thus lived in Spain, France, Thailand and primarily in the US. Now Dagmar lives and works back home, in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. After her graduation from Virginia Commonwealth University 1987, she worked in Advertising. During her years as a commercial director, she cooperated internationally with Agencies like Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi, Young & Rubicam and has won several awards. 1998 she quit with advertising because it lacked content and she felt, that 10 years where good and enough. She left for Thailand. In 1999 she sold her first script for a feature film and there were more to come. At the same time she started experimenting with video shorts and sculptures. Today, Dagmar’s field of work has a very wide variety: she works as an author, a director, and dramaturge. Furthermore she is a member of the editorial department for Arts and the editorial department for news at ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) . In her Art Installations she mainly works with video and film but also she still experiments with other material, mostly involving requisites used in a film. 2005, at the age of almost 40, she went back to study at the University for applied Arts in Vienna. (postgraduate). 2007 dagmar was asked to jump into a new field: to work for the national daily news. Since then she has anchored about 250 news shows at midnight, called Zib 24.