Tabea Blumenschein

GLOW (2023)

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her ...

Loving Highsmith (2022)

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those who knew her, both family and close friends. ...

In Afrika ist Muttertag (1985)

Little girls tell dirty jokes. A beautiful young woman wants to have her leg cut off. Two young men need money and take on the job - helping her. Quick money for a quick job, but it becomes increasingly insidious. ...

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger's Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines b ...

Uliisses (1982)

Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in. ...

Siblings (1982)

Taxi zum Klo (1981)

Frank, a dedicated schoolteacher, embraces the sexual freedoms of the city's underground scene—navigating a double life in public restrooms, cinemas, and cruising spots. When he meets Bernd, a sweet and steady museum worker, he finds himself torn between ...

Ticket of No Return (1979)

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard. ...

Madame X – An Absolute Ruler (1978)

The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvon ...

Marianne Rosenberg (1976)

Portrait on Marianne Rosenberg, underground icon Tabea Blumenschein dancing in the background. ...

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive. ...

Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio (1975)

Once upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, ...

Loving Highsmith (2022)

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her unpublished diaries, her own voice and that of those who knew her, both family and close friends. ...

Zagarbata (1985)

Dilettantishly cruel scenes from the "scene": A skinhead loves a dance girl and dreams of a petty-bourgeois future. When he is deprived of the wages of a robbery by his landlady, an impoverished princess, he kills her. His girlfriend sinks to being a prost ...

Kiez (1983)

Set in Hamburg's "Hell's Kitchen," a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pi ...

Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten (1982)

Expressionst film about animated shadows. ...

Looping (1981)

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way ...

XY - Watch Out for the Trap (1981)

Blumenschein stages surreal, minimalist tableaux featuring herself and collaborators amid stark black‑and‑white visuals. Part of Infermental 1, a film that gathers short films of many German directors and lasts 4 hours. ...

Ticket of No Return (1979)

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard. ...

Plastikfieber (1979)

Romy Haag portrays Clarissa Vornfeist who dreams of fame, while Otto Sander in his role as Wilfried plans to transform her into a plastic doll using a prepared broiler. ...

Madame X – An Absolute Ruler (1978)

The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvon ...

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975)

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive. ...

Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio (1975)

Once upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, ...