Cesy Leonard

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Cesy Leonard (born November 26, 1982 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist, filmmaker, head of the planning staff of the Center for Political Beauty and co-founder of the Radical Daughters .

Career

Cesy Leonard was born in Stuttgart in 1982 as the eldest daughter of an Australian father and a German mother. Her artistic career began as a graffiti artist in Stuttgart. She was one of the few women in the Stuttgart hip-hop scene. She rapped in the women's crew "No Frills", who performed together with the bands of the "Golden Middle" (the beginnings of Chimperator Productions ). Cesy Leonard studied acting at the drama school "Der Kreis" . She had her first engagement as an actress in 2001 as a continuous role in the ARD series Fabrixx . This was followed by further engagements in TV and film.

Cesy Leonard started directing in 2010. Since 2011 she has been the head of the planning staff at the Center for Political Beauty . At the Center for Political Beauty, she heads the film department and is part of the creative core team. Since then, she and her team have repeatedly appeared with radical actions in public space. Cesy Leonard about her work at the Center for Political Beauty: “We are artists, we do action art, we don't do political activism, we try to advance the concept of art and really create change with art.” You for the Center for Political Beauty produced video "Guilt - the barbarism of Europe" won the 2012 German Web Video Prize . Her short film “Mondays Tanzen” ran in 2015 a. a. at the Max Ophüls Festival in Saarbrücken.

Under pressure - Art and Freedom: Cesy Leonard (2019)

In 2018 Cesy Leonard wrote a feminist essay in “No More Bullshit - Handbook against Sexism”. Here she describes the difficulty of working as a mother and as a political artist and names five demands so that something finally changes.

In 2019, Cesy Leonard founded the Radical Daughters with her colleague Katharina Haverich . “The action artists Cesy Leonard and Katharina Haverich founded this group to create waves, to politicize - and that outside, in rural areas, in villages and forgotten small towns.” “In their training camps, the Radical Daughters inspire effective, spectacular forms of protest “Leaving behind a critical mass to strengthen democracy.

Actions and exhibitions

As head of the planning staff together with other members of the Center for Political Beauty :

  • November 2017: “Build the Holocaust memorial right in front of Höcke's house!” The ZPS installs an offshoot of the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe on the neighboring property of AfD politician Björn Höcke in Bornhagen, Thuringia .
  • June 2017: "Scholl 2017". With the Münchner Kammerspiele , the ZPS recruited Bavarian students who are ready to travel to a dictatorship in the spirit of the Scholl siblings or the White Rose resistance group in order to call for the overthrow of the regime with leaflets.
  • June 2016: “Refugees eat”. The ZPS publicly searched for refugees who were willing to be eaten by four living tigers in a Roman arena in front of the Maxim Gorki Theater .
  • March 2016: “Decapping Switzerland”, as a criticism of Roger Köppel .
  • September 2015: "The Bridge". The center anchors a rescue platform for refugees in the Mediterranean.,
  • September 2015: "2099". A play from the future at the Schauspiel Dortmund.
  • June 2015: “The dead are coming”. Artists from the center buried a Syrian woman in the Muslim part of the Berlin-Gatow cemetery and a man in Berlin-Schöneberg.
  • November 2014 Maxim-Gorki-Theater , temporarily stolen some wall crosses to draw attention to the new wall at the EU external borders and as a protest against the death of refugees at these and drive to the EU external borders Bulgaria and Greece.
  • May 2014: “Kindertransporthilfe des Bundes”. On behalf of Family Minister Manuela Schwesig, the ZPS is looking for foster families for 55,000 Syrian children in order to politically reanimate the Kindertransporte from the 1930s.

Awards

  • December 2015: Amadeu Antonio Prize for the campaigns “Kindertransporthilfe des Bundes”, “First European Wall Fall” and “The Dead are Coming” - with this the Center for Political Beauty is sending a clear signal against the isolating European refugee policy.
  • 2012: German web video award for the video “Guilt - The Barbarism of Europe” from the Center for Political Beauty, as a jury award in the FYI (For Your Information) category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cesy Leonard | Center for Political Beauty. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Radical Daughters team. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Cesy Leonard. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Sophie Schmalz: Center for Political Beauty: "It doesn't take a lot of courage" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 13, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 2, 2020]).
  5. ↑ VICE - The New Wall Dead of Europe. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 15 11 2019 at 10:13 am by Johanna Hofleitner: Cesy Leonard: "What unites us is an unconditional will to ..." November 15, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ "We want to provoke". Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ Winner of the German Web Video Award 2012: Guilt. The barbarism of Europe. In: German Web Video Prize. 2012, accessed on July 2, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ Speaker list. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Sorority publishes manual against sexism - derStandard.de. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (Austrian German).
  11. ↑ Radical Daughters: Politics in the Villages. In: transform. April 30, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Radical Daughters homepage. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Holocaust Memorial Bornhagen | Center for Political Beauty. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Arno Frank, DER SPIEGEL: Björn Höcke: Center for Political Beauty puts a Holocaust memorial on his doorstep - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Alex Rühle: Drucker spits leaflets on Istanbul's streets. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Activists fly refugees to Europe. June 16, 2016, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Curse Köppel in the theater: Everything just stolen! And bad. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Artist project in the Mediterranean - the utopia of the saving bridge. In: Tagesschau. October 8, 2015, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  19. ^ Center for Political Beauty - A stirring appeal at the Dortmund Theater. Retrieved on July 2, 2020 (German).
  20. ↑ Thies Schnack, Robert Ackermann, Marius Münstermann, DER SPIEGEL: Center for Political Beauty buries refugees in Berlin - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  21. ↑ How the wall crosses disappeared. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Cesy Leonard: "That held up a mirror to us" - derStandard.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (Austrian German).
  23. ↑ Georg Diez, DER SPIEGEL: Syria: Art campaign for child transports from the crisis region - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Amadeu Antonio Foundation: Amadeu Antonio Prize 2015: The winners. In: Amadeu Antonio Foundation. Retrieved on July 2, 2020 (German).
  25. ^ Winner of the German Web Video Award 2012: Guilt. The barbarism of Europe. In: German Web Video Prize. 2012, accessed July 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Leonard, Cesy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart