Gabriele Stötzer

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Gabriele Kachold (1987)

Gabriele Stötzer (born April 14, 1953 in Emleben , married Gabriele Kachold 1973–1979 ) is a German writer and artist.

Life

Gabriele Stötzer is the daughter of an accountant and a toolmaker and has three siblings. From 1969 she completed an apprenticeship as a medical-technical assistant in Erfurt . Then she caught up with her Abitur at night school . In 1973 she married and was now called Gabriele Kachold. She began to study German and art education at the University of Education in Erfurt and got in touch with the Jena literature and art scene around Jürgen Fuchs. In the summer of 1976 it was because of a petition against the dismissal of a critical fellow students from the university expelled and sent to the "probation" in the production. In November 1976 she signed the protest against Wolf Biermann's expatriation . Before the signature list was delivered from Erfurt to Berlin , she was arrested by the Stasi ; After five months of pre- trial detention , she was sentenced to one year in prison for " defamation of the state " in spring 1977 .

During her imprisonment in the Hoheneck prison in Stollberg / Saxony , Gabriele Kachold made the decision to write. After her release, she refused to leave for the West and had to go to production again for “probation”. She began by writing autobiographical and experimental texts that document the attempt to find a specifically female expression. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1979; until 1992 she was called Gabriele Stötzer-Kachold. In 1980 she quit and took over the management of a private art gallery in Erfurt, where she exhibited works from the alternative scene, first from Thuringia and then from all of the GDR. When the gallery gained supraregional importance, the “gallery in the corridor” was “liquidated” in 1981 by the Stasi , under whose intensive supervision Stötzer-Kachold had been for a long time. As an artist she worked in the fields of photography, Super 8 film, graphics and weaving. In 1984 she was co-founder of the Erfurt artists' group , which made fashion object shows and performances and, from 1986, Super 8 films, even under the severely limited possibilities of the GDR .

Before the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR , articles by Gabriele Kachold were published in the magazine Temperamente - Blätter für Junge Literatur in the youth publisher of the GDR, Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin. Texts by her appeared in issue 1/1989 and an interview with the title “Art is a rhythm in which women can live” in issue 3/1989, as well as some texts. The volume Zügel los was published in 1989 by Aufbau-Verlag . From 1982 to 1988 she produced 13 artist books from text, photos and drawings. Her works have also been printed in various underground magazines ( and , mikado , ariadnefabrik , KomaKino ).

Before the fall of the Wall, Stötzer-Kachold was one of the founders of an Erfurt group called “Women for Change” and on December 4, 1989 she was one of the initiators of the first occupation of a state security headquarters in the GDR in Erfurt and then worked on the citizens 'council and citizens' committee. In 1990 she was a co-founder of the Erfurt association “Kunsthaus”. Her texts could now appear in regular publishers, and on trips at home and abroad she presented the many facets of her artistic work. From 2010 she has been giving performance block seminars at the University of Erfurt and giving reading concerts with the Weimar group for experimental music "EFIM". Gabriele Stötzer lives today (2005) in Erfurt and Utrecht .

On the Day of German Unity in 2013, she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Federal President Joachim Gauck . The reason for the award of the award says: “As a writer and artist, Gabriele Stötzer makes it possible to experience with her work what state oppression, spying and violence mean for the individual. Because of her protest against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann , she was sent to the Hoheneck prison in 1976. Despite severe reprisals, she did not bow to the SED regime. On December 4, 1989, she was one of the first in the GDR to initiate and organize the occupation of a Stasi administration. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was a member of the Erfurt Citizens' Committee to dissolve the Ministry for State Security of the GDR and in the Erfurt group Women for Change. To this day, Gabriele Stötzer continues to report as a contemporary witness about the SED injustice. "

From December 13, 2008 to February 8, 2009 she took part in the exhibition re.act.feminism, performance art of the 1960s & 70s today at the Akademie der Künste Berlin; from November 29, 2013 to January 5, 2014 there was one Solo exhibition Gabriele Stötzer - Schwingungskurve Leben in the Schiller Museum Weimar and from December 13, 2013 to February 2, 2014 an exhibition Between Exit and Action in the Kunsthalle Erfurt , for which she was also the curator.

In 2014, Gabriele Stötzer was the 49th scholarship holder of the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation .

anthology

  • TEMPERAMENT sheets for young literature, booklets 1/1989, ISBN 3-355-00896-6 and 3/1989, ISBN 3-355-00898-2 , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin.
  • Poets do not tolerate dictators next to them. Reiner Kunze. Weilerswist 2013
  • "Löhma 12/18", an original graphic artist's book with texts and prints by various artists; published by the Kunstverein Löhma .

Works

  • Reins loose. Construction publishing house, Berlin [u. a.] 1989.
  • Hot iron freedom. MERIAN, Hamburg, November 1990, pp. 75-78.
  • break free from borders. Janus Press, Berlin 1992.
  • erfurt roulette. P. Kirchheim Verlag Munich 1995.
  • The crumbling fortress. P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • I am yesterday's woman. Edition Büchergilde, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-936428-47-6 .
  • The life of the hatless. P. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 2007.
  • De grijze stroom. Gheringbooks.nl 2012. (translated into Dutch by Eddy de Veth)
  • the words burn in your mouth. ARTE FAKT publishing house, 2017, ISBN 978-3-937364-07-0 .

Super 8 films

  • Kai and Karsten , Super 8, 12 min. 1983 *
  • Expulsion from paradise , Super 8, 25 min. 1984 *
  • Local determination , Super 8, 18 min. 1984 *
  • Top , super 8, 12 min. 1986 *
  • Trisal , Super 8, 20 min. 1986 *
  • St. Vitus Dance / Feixtanz , Super 8, 25 min. 1988 *
  • Centaur , Super 8, 9 min. 1988 *
  • ... didn't I amuse you brilliantly? Super 8, 12 min. 1989 *
  • Erfurt 1989 , Super 8, 8 min. 1989 *

together with the artist group Erfurt

  • Women's dreams , Super 8, 25 min. 1986 *
  • Touching the ghosts , Super 8, 25 min. 1987 *
  • Comic funny , super 8, 25 min. 1988 *
  • Seduction , Super 8, 12 min. Idea and equipment Gabriele Göbel, 1988 *
  • Signals , Super 8, 25 min. 1989 *
  • There were two royal children , Super 8, 10 min 1990 *

feature

  • The Hoheneck women's prison. Humiliation, arbitrariness, betrayal , 59:30 min, director: Stefan Kanis, editor: Kathrin Aehnlich , original broadcast at MDR Figaro on September 28, 2011
  • Foreign mother, foreign child. Forced adoption in the GDR , director: Wolfgang Bauernfeind , editor: Kathrin Aehnlich, original broadcast at MDR Figaro on April 10, 2013

Exhibition catalogs

  • Gabriele Stötzer, Schwingungskurve Leben catalog for the exhibition in the Schiller Museum Weimar, November 29, 2013 to January 5, 2014.
  • Between exit and action. The Erfurt subculture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s , catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Erfurt, December 8, 2013 - February 2, 2014.
  • »Re.act.feminism # 2« - a performing archive , bilingual catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name, which traveled through six European countries from 2011–2013, edited by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer, 2014.

Prices

literature

  • Beth V. Linklater: And lust becomes more and more rampant. Constructions of sexuality in East German literatures. Lang, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-906759-53-9 .
  • Mechthild Lobisch (Ed.): Interchangeable - thought together. Documentation of a working week on Gabriele Stötzer's autobiographical text “The crumbling fortress”. University of Art and Design, Halle / Saale 2004, ISBN 3-86019-042-3 .
  • Bernd Florath :  Stötzer, Gabriele . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Sabine Zaplin: Capless travelers. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 21, 2007.
  • Wolfgang Leissling: Gabriele Stötzer's year without a hat. TA, June 23, 2007.
  • Carsten Probst: Re-act feminism in Berlin, a festival for performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, Germany radio. December 15, 2008.
  • Boryana Rossa: re.act.feminism. onlinemagazin Berlin December 16, 2008.
  • Evelyn Finger: Women of Action. In: The time. No. 2, 2009.
  • Ines Geipel: The price was high. In: Emma. No. 6 (293).
  • Henriëtte Lakmaker: De Wende was chaos, ik genoot ervan. Trouw / Nl, Amsterdam, verdieping, October 31, 2009.
  • Sibylle Plogstedt: Knastmauke. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2010.
  • Claus Löser: Strategies of Refusal, Investigations into the political-aesthetic gesture of inappropriate cinematic articulations in the late phase of the GDR. DEFA Foundation, 2011.
  • Yvonne Fiedler: Art in the Corridor, Private Galleries in the GDR. Ch.Links Verlag, Berlin.

Documentation "Restricted Freedom"

Many years of Gabriele Stötzer's life are almost completely recorded and documented in the secret service files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). Even as a student, she aroused the interest of the GDR secret police - the consequences for her were constant surveillance, attempts at intimidation and imprisonment. Stötzer's curriculum vitae is representative of the résumés of many people in the GDR with ideals similar to her.

In 2014, the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Documents published the thematic brochure “Restricted Freedom” (76 pages, A4 format) on the Gabriele Stötzer case - this documentation is available free of charge both online as a barrier-free PDF download and as a printed copy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communication from the Office of the Federal President , accessed on October 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ bundespraesident.de
  3. ↑ hermann-hesse.de
  4. ↑ BStU , "Restricted Freedom" - The Gabriele Stötzer Case , Berlin 2014 (PDF)
  5. ↑ BStU , "Restricted Freedom" - The Case of Gabriele Stötzer , Berlin 2014
personal data
SURNAME Stötzer, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kachold, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Emleben , GDR