Helga Goetze
Helga Sophia Goetze (born March 12, 1922 in Magdeburg ; † January 29, 2008 in Winsen ), also as an artist Helga Sophia , was a German artist , writer and political activist.
biography
Helga Goetze was an activist for sexual liberation and was known to many Berliners , because since 1983 she stood almost every day for a few hours at the Memorial Church and in front of the cafeteria of the TU Berlin with her slogan Fucking is Peace and Fucking is important . In 1972 she opened an institute for sexual information in her home. Between 1978 and 1983 she repeatedly sought contact with Otto Muehl's local network at the time , the so-called AAO (abbreviation for Action Analysis Organization ) and also visited Muehl several times at Friedrichshof, the seat of this municipality in Burgenland, Austria . However, they did not accept Muehl's offer to move into his commune. In 1982 she starred in the film Rote Liebe by Rosa von Praunheim . She published poems and embroidered pictures.
In November 2007, some of her embroideries were included in the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne and are on permanent display there.
After a stroke, she lived in a nursing home in Maschen from the end of August 2007 . Her grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery , Schöneberg .
Publications
- Housewife of the nation or Germany's super pig? Evidence of an outbreak ; selected and commented by Volker Elis Pilgrim , Rohr, Munich 1973
- Red love. A conversation with Rosa von Praunheim , Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-922009-47-6
Exhibitions
Some of her works are part of the permanent exhibition of the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne.
Other exhibitions where works by Helga Sophia Goetze were shown included:
- Noi, quelli della parola che semper cammina at the Museoteatro della Commenda di Prè in Genoa , 3rd to 30th September 2010.
- Insita , Triennale in Bratislava , July 3 to September 26, 2010.
- Arte, Genio e Follia in the Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala in Siena , January 31 to May 25, 2009.
Helga Goetze Foundation
On February 3, 2020, the Stadtmuseum Berlin honored Helga Goetze with the establishment of its own foundation. The Helga Goetze Foundation comprises around 280 stylistically unique embroidery pictures in various formats and around 300 graphics with feminist messages and extraordinary cultural-historical statements that range from the 1960s to 2007.
Web links
- Official website of the Metropole Mutterstadt eV association
- Memorial page from Metropole Mutterstadt eV
- Literature by and about Helga Goetze in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helga Goetze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helga Sophia Goetze in the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne (PDF file; 130 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artsblog
- ↑ Mentelocale ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Insita
- ↑ Arte, Genio e Follia ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Judith Kuhn: Helga Goetze Foundation established in the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation. In: www.stadtmuseum.de. February 3, 2020, accessed February 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goetze, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goetze, Helga Sophia; Helga Sophia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist, writer and political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2008 |
| Place of death | Winsen (Luhe) |