Gabriele Stötzer

The Indomitable2 - Good Morning, my Beauties! (2024)

GOOD MORNING, MY BEAUTIES! The film is a vibrant group portrait of East German women from a wide variety of walks of life in the GDR. What they all have in common is that they grew up in the GDR and were shaped by it; they do not view this background as a ...

Rebels (2022)

The rough, unkempt facades in Prenzlauer Berg – as if the skin had been peeled off the houses, says photographer Tina Bara. Having grown up in a prefabricated building, the young woman was drawn to East Berlin. She quickly got in conflict with the state, ...

Spuren des Performativen (2017)

GDR August 31, 1985, Klubhaus in Coswig/Dresden - "Intermedia I - Farbraum/Klangbild"- the event was the first and, as it turned out, the last exhibition by the subculture in East Germany, in which over 40 visual artists and twice as many musicians, perfo ...

Kaputt (2016)

An animated documentary short about the central prison for women in the former GDR, based on interviews with former prisoners. ...

Frauenträume (1984)

... hab ich euch nicht glänzend amüsiert? (1989)

Like a mantra, performer Gabi Stötzer repeats the question that gives the piece its title, which becomes increasingly unnerving. With her body paint, she opens up a wide field of associations ranging from loss and grief to activist determination. ...

Veitstanz/Feixtanz (1988)

Historically, the phenomenon of St Vitus' Dance (Veitstanz) first appeared in the Middle Ages, when groups of adults and children danced in public until they lost consciousness. In 1988, 13 women and men attempted to revisit the power of this ancient ritua ...

Frauenträume (1984)