Charlotte Marsau

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Lottie Marsau (India ink drawing by Peti Buchel, 1983)

Charlotte Marsau (also Lottie Marsau ; born April 16, 1953 in Heide ) is a German musician and film director .

Life

She began her artistic career as a street musician and artist in Hamburg. She was active in Hanne Mogler's fools garden , traveled to New Orleans and Central America and dealt with aesthetic theory and musical practice, especially percussion .

With the British keyboardist Poppy Rice, she founded the Bitch Band No. 1 . The international female band with the American singer Betsy Miller toured in the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria and Germany. In 1981 the Bitch Band played at the 1st women's rock festival Venus Weltklang in Berlin's Tempodrom and released the LP "Bitch Band - Zirrppppp!" On the GeeBeeDe label . Some of Marsau's texts and compositions were published by the Sikorski Music Publishing House .

From 1980 Marsau was active in the artist and Kraaker scene in Amsterdam and lived on the occupied site in the Conradstraat. She achieved fame in the scene through actions and performances such as her "Symphony with Donkey". With the singer Annie Toone ( The Bloods ) and the bassist Petra Ilyes ( Minus Delta t ), she formed the symphonic-punk ensemble Idiotsavant , which was reinforced by the violinist Martine Rijks and the trumpeter Harrie Smart. The band experimented with sounds from a shortwave receiver and noises from the tape, used oil barrels and kettledrum and occasionally used a brass section. In 1984 they released the LP “Feindsender” and the single “Go Fuck Yrself” on the Eksakt Records label , which became a hit on Piratenradio.

From 1985 Marsau worked for the Amsterdam film production office Rolf Orthel and gained practical experience in filming on the set of Heddy Honigmann, Hans Fels, Annette Apon and Kees Hin. She learned camera work from Neeltje Hin. In 1989 she traveled to Tibet for the first time for a year and made sound recordings and photos. In 1991/1992 she was again in Tibet with the camerawoman Louise Oeben and shot with a 16 mm Bolex handheld camera .

During filming and protests against the Mölln arson attack , she met the filmmaker Katharina Geinitz (pseudonym "Katharina Rosa") in 1992 . From then on, Marsau and Geinitz formed the “RosaMarsFilm” partnership and working group, which was officially registered as a film production.

After two years in Tibet together with Katharina Geinitz, the film Chinas Tibet? Premiere at the Nordic Film Days 1995 in Lübeck. Without a filming permit, the filmmakers in the Lhasa, Shigatse and Ngari region collected images and sounds that document the effects of the 40-year-old Chinese occupation. The 11th International Documentary Film Festival in Munich awarded the film the prize for the special documentary film in 1996. Video copies of the 36-minute short film made the rounds, and the film was shown at events organized by the Tibet Initiative Germany .

“Lottie Marsau and Katharina Rosa have China's Tibet? one of the most characteristic and important forms of production of the documentary was chosen, namely the subversive production under the eyes of a repressive government. With good reason they chose the still unbeatable medium 16mm film and the supposedly inconspicuous Bolex handheld camera. "

- Statement by the jury of the Munich Documentary Film Festival on the Documentary Film Prize

Marsau and Geinitz created a “scenic symphony” in 1996 with the documentary Aus Tibet - a Heimatfilm . The film is a poetic-political journey through Tibet with images from everyday life and history, of nomads in summer camp, of smugglers crossing a mountain pass, of the Chinese military, of figures and wall paintings from the rock temples in Tsaparang / Guge in western Tibet and of an aerial burial on the Shigatse Hills of the Dead. The "Heimatfilm" was the opening film of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck , was shown at the 12th International Documentary Film Festival in Munich and was awarded the Documentary Film Prize at the Days of Independent Film Osnabrück .

In 1998/99 Marsau went on a research trip for the Afghanistan film project “Walai-Kum-us-Salam”. Their way led via Tajikistan to the headquarters of the Northern Alliance of Ahmad Shah Massoud and finally to the Taliban- ruled Kabul . She spent the winter in the Afghan capital and made contact with RAWA activists. 2003/2004 she could because of their local knowledge and contacts filming Helga Reidemeister's documentary Texas - Kabul prepare and the manager take over in Afghanistan.

In 2003 the documentary film Tot in Lübeck premiered at the International Film Festival Visions du Réel in Nyon . The film revisits the process of the arson attack on a Lübeck asylum seekers' home , in which ten people were killed in 1996. Interviews with the Schleswig-Holstein attorney general Erhard Rex and the attorney Gabriele Heinecke were put together for an exchange of blows, commented by the cabaret artist Dietrich Kittner . The first filming took place shortly after the attack, and Kittner's Lübeck morality on the arson attack was recorded in 1997. The completion of the film was delayed by the trials against an unjustifiably suspected resident and by the repeatedly discontinued investigations against right-wing extremist youth from Grevesmühlen. Tot in Lübeck was also shown at the 18th Munich International Documentary Film Festival and in the competition at the One World 2004 film festival in Prague. In 2007 Marsau was again a podium guest at the One World Film Festival in a debate on the subject of "Tolerant - Intolerant" at the Goethe Institute in Prague.

Discography

  • 1981: Bitch Band No I - Zirrppppp! , GeeBeeDee. LP
  • 1983: Exertion - Wild + Female . Kick Records, LP
  • 1984: Idiot Avant - Feindsender , Eksakt Records, LP 45 RPM, Mini-Album
  • 1984: Idiotsavant - Go Fuck Yrself , single, self-released

Filmography

  • 1994: Leder vom Dach der Welt ( GTZ commissioned production) - director
  • 1995: China's Tibet? - director
  • 1996: From Tibet - a homeland film - director
  • 2003: Tot in Lübeck - director
  • 2004: Texas - Kabul by Helga Reidemeister - Location Scout, production manager

Awards

  • 1996: Prize for the special documentary film of the 11th International Documentary Film Festival Munich for China's Tibet
  • 1998: Documentary Award of the Days of Independent Film Osnabrück for Aus Tibet - Ein Heimatfilm

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast: "be bop" - The Wilhelmshöhe rocks. Disco and concerts in Hell , Verlag Gebr. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8067-8589-0 ; P. 152 ff.
  2. ^ Cillie Rentmeister: Venus Weltklang 1. Frauenrockfestival , Courage , August 1981, pp. 4–10, here p. 6; Digitized
  3. ↑ Rita von der Grün (ed.): Venus Weltklang Musikfrauen - Frauenmusik , Elefanten Press, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3885201151
  4. ↑ Venus Weltklang 1981 ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Jenny Woolworth's Women in Punk Blog
  5. ↑ Bitch Band No I - Zirrppppp! , Discogs
  6. ↑ List of works: Marsau, Charlotte , Sikorski Musikverlage
  7. ↑ Egelantiersstraat 113 , Vrouwen Nu Voor Later
  8. ↑ Kraken 4: de ezelin , Nurks Magazine , November 15, 2010
  9. ^ Muziek , Vrouwen Nu Voor Later
  10. ↑ Idiot Savant , Blog D'un temps perdu 2016 on Blogspot.com
  11. ↑ Toone's Bulging Bio , site of Annie Toone
  12. ↑ Idiotsavant, Album: Feindsender MP3 Gallery on andersontoone.com
  13. ↑ Idiotsavant at Discogs (English)
  14. ^ Rosa Mars Film (Berlin) , filmportal.de
  15. ^ Filmographien ( Memento from July 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), rosamarsfilm.de
  16. ↑ China's Tibet? , Absolut Medien on Vimeo on Demand, February 24, 2016
  17. ↑ Competition: China's Tibet? 11th International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1996 on artechock
  18. ^ Projects & Events 1997-1999 , Tibet Initiative Hamburg
  19. ↑ a b Tibet Rediscovered , virtual-archive.org
  20. ^ Horst Südkamp: The scenic symphony: From Tibet - a home film , review by Horst Südkamp on horstsuedkamp.de
  21. ↑ From Tibet - a Heimatfilm , Absolut Medien on Vimeo on Demand, February 24, 2016
  22. ↑ Aus Tibet - Ein Heimatfilm , 12th International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1996 on artechock
  23. ↑ movie letter , Cultural Film Funding Schleswig-Holstein , no. 48, May 1998, page 2
  24. ↑ Texas - Kabul , film data sheet of the Berlinale 2004
  25. ↑ Two productions from Schleswig-Holstein at the festival in Nyon , infomedia-sh aktuell , March 2003
  26. ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: The Asphalt Lives , Der Tagesspiegel , May 6, 2003
  27. ↑ a b Julia Stegmann: Because the stories of the victims are the most important thing: analyzes of right-wing violence critical of racism in German feature and documentary films 1992–2012. Diss. Univ. Lüneburg 2016, V & R unipress, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8471-1000-2 , p. 56 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  28. ↑ Tot in Lübeck , Absolut Medien on Vimeo on Demand, February 24, 2016
  29. ↑ Kittner comes: Cabaret artist performs "Lübecker Moritat" ( memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Lübecker Stadtzeitung, October 19, 1999
  30. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Vogel: Just not a real trace! The investigative work of the police encourages right-wing extremist offenders , Taz , August 6, 2012
  31. ↑ International program 2003: Tot in Lübeck , DOK.fest Munich , catalog 2003 (PDF)
  32. ^ Death in Lübeck , One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2004
  33. ↑ Festival every ze Porada Diskusi o rasismu , romea.cz February 27, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Marsau, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsau, Lottie; Marsau, Lotti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker and musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH pagan