Brigitte Kausch-Kuhlbrodt

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Brigitte Kausch , later Brigitte Kausch-Kuhlbrodt , (born January 10, 1939 in Insterburg , East Prussia , † February 14, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German director , actress and artist .

Life

Brigitte Kausch was born shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War as the third child of a professional soldier in the cavalry and a housewife in Insterburg .

In 1944 the family fled to Göttingen on one of the last train trains before the advancing Red Army , where they initially stayed with relatives. Through the eastern zone , they reached Hamburg via various brief stops on the Baltic Sea in 1945, only to find a new home with family members in Düren not far from the Dutch border.

After her school days in the small town, she often moved to nearby Düsseldorf , where she first met Joseph Beuys in 1961 , who was just beginning his professorship at the art academy and who lived there with other artists. Beuys owes his preference for striking men's hats to Brigitte Kausch's extravagant clothing style.

On a study trip to Malta , she met her future husband, the film critic , prospective public prosecutor and actor Dietrich Kuhlbrodt . The engagement on the Greek island of Lesbos was followed by the wedding in Aachen in 1967 .

After some time in the advertising industry, she and her husband moved to Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg , where they maintained close contacts with the painter Roland Wesner .

From 1968 they lived together in Hamburg . There they met Klaus Wildenhahn , Hellmuth Costard , Bernd Upnmoor , Wener Grassmann, Werner Nekes , Dore O. , Brigitte Skay and Wim Wenders, among others, in the Hamburg filmmaker's cooperative .

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Her two sons were born in 1969 and 1972. A little later, she directed the two experimental short films Macheteco and Zafer. These - as well as her watercolors, drawings or mixed media works of art - were always influenced by the scene around Hamburg's Marktstrasse district (today Karoviertel ) and the punk / post-punk era of the late 1970s. The BKK S8 films were shown on the then newly founded S8 section of the Berlinale and thus helped the scene to make artists such as producers and Super 8 filmmakers Klaus Maeck and Hilka Nordhausen known and style - defining in the Federal Republic .

In the early 1980s, the couple met filmmaker and artist Christoph Schlingensief , who found parental friends in the two of them and was able to persuade them to appear in his films and plays.

Her best-known roles include the performances as Eva Braun in 100 Years of Adolf Hitler. The last hour in the Führerbunker with Alfred Edel and Udo Kier or as Brigitte in The German Chainsaw Massacre , both directed by Christoph Schlingensief. She was also seen on stage at various theaters such as the Berliner Volksbühne , the Burgtheater in Vienna or in the performance piece Attabambi-Pornoland in Zurich .

Brigitte Kausch stood out not only because of her fashion, but also because of her early social commitment. So she housed z. B. in your basement for longer periods of time an African refugee whose residence permit should not be extended.

In the last years of her life she mainly worked as a painter and remained in constant exchange with artists from the HfBK Hamburg area .

Brigitte Kausch died on February 14, 2013 in Hamburg .

Filmography

Exhibitions

  • 1980–1990 Various solo exhibitions in Hamburg
  • 2014 Vorwerkstift and Hinterconti (double exhibition, posthumously)

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personal data
SURNAME Kausch-Kuhlbrodt, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kausch, Brigitte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, actress and artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2013
Place of death Hamburg