Steph Hillier is originally from the south coast of England. She graduated from London’s University of Greenwich in 1992 with an upper second degree after studying the subjects of English and American Studies, Music and Video Production for a BA (Hons) in Humanities.
Soon after finishing her degree, she was asked to go out on tour as guitar technician for some up-and-coming British bands, then trained to be a sound engineer and spent the next five years or so working as a professional live sound engineer and tour manager.
In 1994, Steph Hillier co-founded BoogleWonderland Records with Simon Aldous, where she was responsible for running the label as well as overseeing the artwork for the label’s releases. She also became the manager of Frantic Spiders and Umbrella Heaven.
In 1998, she was asked to mix some tracks for Barbara Morgenstern’s first album Vermona ET 6-1 - “Diskogeld” and “Der Wunsch Teil Zwei” – released on Gudrun Gut’s Monika Enterprise label. She moved to Berlin that summer and has been living there ever since.
In 2000, she began to work as a German to English translator, specialising in film, television and music. For the past seven or eight years, she has been responsible for translating film scripts, music video and documentary treatments, websites for several Berlin-based film and TV production companies and text for subtitles. She also researches, writes and edits press releases, artists' biographies and text for websites.
In addition, Steph Hillier was the international co-ordinator at DoRo Film-und Fernsehen, a Berlin-based film production company. She has also repped various music video directors to UK record companies and production houses, and looked after bands for a music and television PR agency.
Steph Hillier is currently collaborating with Berlin-based designer
Heinz Aimer (www.heinz-aimer.net)
and working with several young German film-makers.
© Steph Hillier, 2008