Helke Sander

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Helke Sander at the Berlinale 2019

Helke Sander (born January 31, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German feminist filmmaker and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in Remscheid , Helke Sander attended an acting school in Hamburg. After her marriage to the Finnish writer Markku Lahtela and the birth of her son Silvo (* 1959), she worked as a director at the Finnish workers' theater and for Finnish television. In 1965 Sander returned to Berlin.

From 1966 to 1969 she studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and worked as a translator and reporter alongside her studies. In 1968 she and other women founded the Action Council for the Liberation of Women . As its representative, she gave a speech at the SDS delegates' conference on September 13, 1968. This was followed by the famous tomato toss, which is considered the prelude to the women's movement in the Federal Republic.

Together with Claudia von Alemann , she organized the first international women's film seminar, which took place in Berlin in 1973. In 1974 she founded the magazine Frauen und Film , the first feminist film magazine in Europe, which she published until 1981.

Sander's cinematic work is inextricably linked to her feminist commitment. A premium for Irene , for example , which was commissioned for WDR in 1971, addresses the conflict-ridden dual role of women in the workplace and in the private sphere. In 1972 she made the film Does the Pill Free? With Sarah Schumann . , which was followed by a further collaboration with men's associations in the following year . Her film The All-Round Reduced Personality - Redupers (1978) is one of the most important feminist films of the 1970s. The male lead in this film was played by Frank Burckner. The documentary BeFreier und Befreite (1992) about the rape committed by soldiers of the Red Army during the last weeks of the war and the first weeks after the war, which was sometimes controversial, received a lot of attention . In 1997 the feature film Dazlak - Skinhead was made , for which Helke Sander wrote the script together with her son Silvo.

Filmography

  • 1966: Thérèse Raquin (assistant director)
  • 1967: 3000 houses (actress)
  • 1967: subjectivity (direction and screenplay)
  • 1967: Silvo (director and screenplay)
  • 1967: Break the power of the manipulators! (Director and screenplay)
  • 1968: the red flag
  • 1969: The words of the chairman (assistant director)
  • 1969: Non-extinguishable fire (assistant director)
  • 1970: Children are not cattle (director, screenplay and camera)
  • 1971: A Bounty for Irene (Director and Screenplay)
  • 1973: Männerbünde (director and screenplay)
  • 1973: Does the pill make you free? (Director and screenplay)
  • 1977: Invisible Opponents (Actress)
  • 1978: The all-round reduced personality - Redupers (director, screenplay and actress)
  • 1981: The subjective factor (direction and screenplay, production and narrator)
  • 1981: How does the camel go through the eye of a needle?
  • 1983: Die Gedächtnislücke - film miniatures about the everyday handling of poisons (director and screenplay)
  • 1983: Fräulein Berlin (actress)
  • 1984: The Beginning of All Horrors is Love (Director, Screenplay and Actress)
  • 1984: father and son (actress)
  • 1985: No. 1 - From reports of the security and patrol services (director and screenplay)
  • 1986: Seven Women - Seven Deadly Sins ( Seven Women, Seven Sins , Gluttony segment ? Feeding! ); (Director and screenplay)
  • 1986: No. 8 - From reports of the security and patrol services (director and screenplay)
  • 1987: No. 5 - From reports of the security and patrol services (director and screenplay)
  • 1988: Felix (segment Do I have to be careful? ); (Director and screenplay)
  • 1989: Die Meisen by Mrs. S. (direction, screenplay and production)
  • 1989: The Germans and their Men - Report from Bonn (direction, screenplay, editing and production)
  • 1992: BeFreier and Liberated (director and screenplay)
  • 1992: The most beautiful sides of life (actress)
  • 1997: Dazlak - Skinhead (director and screenplay)
  • 1999: Muttertier - Muttermensch (director, screenplay and editor)
  • 2001: Dorf (direction, screenplay, editing and production)
  • 2002: Bungalow (actress)
  • 2005: In the middle of the malestream (director and screenplay)

Publications (selection)

  • 1st attempt. to find the right questions. Flyer , February 1968. Printed in: Ilse Lenz (Hrsg.): The new women's movement in Germany. 2nd, updated edition, VS Verlag , Wiesbaden 2010. pp. 53–57. Flyer in the archive FrauenMediaTurm Cologne (PD-FB 01)
  • Helke Sander (member of the board of directors for the liberation of women) . Speech to the 23rd delegates' conference of the SDS as representative of the Action Council for the Liberation of Women on September 13, 1968. Printed in: Ilse Lenz (Ed.): The New Women's Movement in Germany. 2nd, updated edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010. pp. 57–61. Original speech manuscript in the archive FrauenMediaTurm Cologne (PD-FB 06)
  • The stories of the three ladies K. Frauenbuchverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-88897-123-3
  • Oh Lucy. Narrative. Kunstmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-88897-044-X
  • Liberated and Liberated. War, rape, children. (together with Barbara Johr as publisher), Munich 1992 (Kunstmann Verlag) ISBN 3-88897-060-1
  • Imagination and work. Biographical dialogue. (together with Iris Gusner ) Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-692-8
  • The last sexual intercourse and other stories about aging , Munich 2011 (Kunstmann Verlag) ISBN 978-3-88897-728-2

Honors

  • 1978: 1st prize at the Hyéres film festival for Redupers
  • 1978: Prix l'age d'or, Brussels International Film Festival for Redupers
  • 1981: ISDAP Prize, Venice, for The Subjective Factor
  • 1984: Federal Film Prize, Gold Film Ribbon for No. 1 - From reports from the security and patrol services
  • 1985: Int. Berlin Film Festival, Golden Bear for No. 1 - From reports from the security and patrol services

Secondary literature

  • Helke Sander: With your feet on the ground, with your head in the clouds , [Ed .:] Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek eV [Red .: Michael Töteberg], Berlin: Friends of Dt. Kinemathek, 2003, series: Kinemathek No. 97, ISBN 3-927876-21-6

See also

Web links

Commons : Helke Sander  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Burckner (born 1930) - Berlin - Tagesspiegel
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Helke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin