Helga Landauer (Olshvang) was born in Moscow, where she graduated from Russian State Institute of Cinematography (”VGIK”). She wrote numerous screenplays for feature, animation and documentary films and worked at Russian National Television directing programs for broadcast.
Since 1996 Helga Landauer lives the United States, continuing to work as a writer, poet and a filmmaker. Her films Being Far from Venice (1998), Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear (2002), A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko), A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008), have been screened at international film festivals such as Madrid Documenta, (Spain), Full Frame (USA), FIFA (Canada) and significant cultural venues such as Louvre Auditorium, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Carnegie Hall and Baryshnikov Art Center.
As a poet, Landauer has been published and reviewed in major Russian literary magazines and anthologies, her works were translated into Swedish, English and Vietnamese. Writing under her maiden name “Helga Olshvang,” she authored three books: 96 book was published by Composer Publishing House, both The Reed and Poetry Works were published by Pushkinsky Fond.
Helga Landauer lives in California with her family.