The harem
The Harem (Munich Harem) is the virtual commune of five women and the ex-communard Rainer Langhans .
history
The harem initially consisted of Anna Werner , Brigitte Streubel , Jutta Winkelmann and Rainer Langhans. In 1978 Christa Ritter was added, and in 1991 Jutta's twin sister Gisela Getty . The term " harem " was invented by the media and accepted by women, but is still not loved, because the credo of the Munich harem is: "Not one man has five wives, but five women have one man."
The harem started a life experiment by women for whom relationships, marriage and careers were too limited experience options. They wanted to face a new challenge that had previously not been lived: their self-determined life. For the purpose of such a search, the Commune I experienced Rainer Langhans, who had just seen the end of his great love with Uschi Obermaier and had embarked on a spiritual path, seemed very suitable.
The women all moved to Schwabing near Langhans. Each woman moved into her own apartment. In the beginning we met every day, exchanged all events and ourselves as openly and unadorned as possible. At the beginning of the 1980s, the first attempts at contact with the outside world followed: with the Greens . The women produced a fanzine with the title "!". They experimented with video and produced the book “Die Mitte der Dunkelheit” in-house. Christa Ritter later shot television documentaries with Rainer Langhans and the harem also experimented with video technology. Problems such as jealousy , bullying , envy and self-contempt also became part of this alternative coexistence.
The harem sees itself as an “open and virtual experiment”, as a “long march” through one's own internal institutions.
Members
- Anna Werner (* 1941 in Munich), photographer. She toured the USA and Mexico with her sister with guitar and dulcimer and experienced the " Summer of Love " in San Francisco. There she met the father of her daughter Janna Ji Wonders. In 2008 Gabriele Dinsenbacher made the film "Hippie mit Hackbrett" in the BR series Lebenslinien .
- Rainer Langhans (* 1940 in Oschersleben) is a co-founder of the legendary Commune I and is considered one of the 1968 actionists and theorists. His relationship with Uschi Obermaier and their media presence shaped the so-called sexual revolution .
- Jutta Winkelmann (1949–2017), author, journalist and web designer. Art studies and a short marriage with the director Adolf Winkelmann . In the early days of the harem, she became the mother of Severin and Karline.
- Brigitte Streubel (* 1950 in Lower Franconia, grew up in Hagen), photo model in Paris, Milan, London and Germany, actress ("The Second Spring"), assistant director, production manager, camerawoman, documentary for the Munich art and theater company. Cultural scene, films for television and publishers, yoga teacher.
- Christa Ritter (* 1942 in Berlin), journalist and filmmaker. Initially she was a publisher, art buyer in advertising agency, agent for international photographers like Peter Lindbergh, assistant director. During the filming of the road movie “The Hamburg Disease” in 1978, she met Langhans and then met the other women. TV documentaries with Rainer Langhans: "Because of love - the most beautiful couple of the APO" (WDR, Grimme nomination), "Schneeweißrosenrot" (WDR, Grimme Prize / particularly valuable), "Fish with a bicycle" (ZDF, Grimme nomination) .
- Gisela Getty (* 1949 in Kassel), photographer. Art studies, marriages with actor Rolf Zacher (daughter Anna). In 1973 she and her twin sister met billionaire grandson John Paul Getty III in Rome . After he was kidnapped by the Mafia, she married him. They moved to Los Angeles and had a son, Balthazar Getty . Divorce. Lives mainly in Austria for over 10 years. Photo exhibitions: Frank Gallery, Los Angeles 2001; “Heavy German Accent”, Lukas and Hoffmann / Cologne 1994 “The Long Way Up, The Short Way Down”; Documentary with Jutta Winkelmann: "Death suits you well" for Spiegel TV and "Timothy Leary's last trip" USA; Play “Everything will be different” Kampnagel / Hamburg 2008–2009; Photo exhibition 'Liquid TimesGalerie' in Einstein / Berlin and The Twins / A Visual Journey in Deichtorhallen Hamburg (April 1 to May 22, 2011) with a photo book: 'The Twins' flower bar .
Works
- Rainer Langhans: It's me - the first 68 years. Autobiography, original edition, 1st edition, Blumenbar, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-936738-34-6 .
- Rainer Langhans: Theoria Diffusa, from conversations with three women. Infections to shadow work in the realm of light heroes. Greno, Nördlingen 1986. ISBN 389-1-900-20-1 .
- Rainer Langhans, Fritz Teufel (ed.): Steal me. StPO der Kommune I. Voltaire Edition, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1968. In: Voltaire-Handbücher , Volume 2 (edited by Bernward Vesper), ISBN 3-88167-022-X (unaltered reprint by Trikont , Munich 1977 and 1978) .
- Petra Bruns, Werner Bruns , Rainer Böhme: The Age Revolution. How we will get old in the future. Structure , Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-351-02644-8 .
- Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (Ed.): 1968. A handbook on the cultural and media history of the student movement. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-476-02066-6 .
- Jutta Winkelmann: The harem experiment. Encounters with Rainer Langhans, the last APOnaut. In: Heyne books , Volume 13, Sphinx bei Heyne 3021, Esoteric Psychology . Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-13284-X
documentation
- “Langhans, Teufel und die Frauen” for SPIEGEL TV
- "Camille Paglia: A woman sees red" (SAT1)
- "Fatima Mernissi: The Power of the Hip"
- "Do you want the 4th Reich?"
- "Revolution"
Television appearances
u. a .:
- "Objection" with Uli Meyer on SAT1 on July 20, 1993
- “Ready to Ruck” 3 days Generation Mix in Berlin 28. – 30. August 1998
- "Kommune" three-week reality show daily on TV-Munich and TV-Berlin in spring 2003 (repeated several times)
- "Beckmann" (February 11, 2008)
- "Sex in old age" VIVO 3Sat (February 13, 2010)
literature
- Petra Bruns, Werner Bruns , Rainer Böhme: The Age Revolution. How we will get old in the future. Structure , Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-351-02644-8 .
- Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (Ed.): 1968. A handbook on the cultural and media history of the student movement. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-476-02066-6 .
- Jutta Winkelmann: The harem experiment. Encounters with Rainer Langhans, the last APOnaut. In: Heyne books , Volume 13, Sphinx bei Heyne 3021, Esoteric Psychology . Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-13284-X