Is Mausi coming out ?!
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| Original title | Is Mausi coming out ?! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Alexander Scherer , Angelina Maccarone |
| script | Angelina Maccarone |
| production | Elisabeth Mueller |
| music | Paul Shigihara |
| camera | Jochen Radermacher |
| cut | Birgit Gasser |
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Is Mausi coming out ?! is a German television film from 1994. It has elements of drama , comedy and romance and deals with the coming out of a young woman from rural backgrounds who discovers her homosexuality in the big city .
The film was first shown on June 7, 1995 at 8:15 p.m. on Das Erste .
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The 20-year-old Kati, called Mausi, is on the way from Hamburg to her rural Westphalian homeland to tell her family about her homosexuality. On the way she looks back over the last six months.
Kati came to the city of Hamburg to escape the narrow village of her home. Only here does she find the opportunity to deal with her own sexuality. In a bar frequented only by women, in which she initially feels like a foreign body, she meets Jo, who comes from Berlin and with whom she has her first affair. This step is reflected in a visual change: The long hair has to be taken off! Jo gives Kati a more unusual bob haircut. When Kati falls in love with Jo, she rejects her because she is not interested in longer relationships. Kati is devastated. However, Jo found her a temporary job in a health food store , where Kati quickly got other thoughts.
Here she meets Yumiko, with whom she begins a love affair. Yumiko is only a little older, but much more confident about her self- image as a lesbian . Therefore, it quickly bothers her that Kati is not able to stand up to her sexuality and her relationship. Kati finds it difficult to show her love in public. Yumiko presses her friend more and more until she finally gives in.
She shyly buys a guidebook in a bookstore about the right coming out . There she reads that the first step is always to open up to your own mother. Kati, however, is reluctant to tell her mother about it on repeated phone calls. Finally, she decides to go home to try it face to face.
Once in her homeland, the reaction of a neighbor to Kati's new hairstyle immediately hits her in the face with the familiar village awareness of tradition. Quite differently than expected, however, Kati's mother reacts excessively relaxed to the finally daring coming out . However, Kati quickly realizes that this is only a pretense and is disappointed that her mother seems to be getting on with the agenda. The mother persistently ignores the fact that Kati is now a vegetarian . So she ignores their warning not to tell Kati's best friend Sonja anything.
She reacts more relaxed, but tells it despite her mother's word of honor (Christiane Lemm). So within a few hours the whole village will know. Kati's older sister Gabi ( Kerstin Becker ), who despite "advanced" age has no partner and is therefore unhappy and upset, makes her bitter accusations that she and her mother as villagers would suffer from future gossip .
In the evening, when the shooting festival takes place in the small village , Kati and Sonja go to the associated fair . The assembled village youth now knows and is making fun of it, especially teasing shy Wolfgang, who has always been in love with Kati. Kati is avoided, but is largely spared hostility because most of them don't even know how to deal with homosexuality. Finally, the two women meet on their former French - teacher (Hildegard Kuhlenberg), was in the Kati love as a student and it is clearly embarrassed that her daughter ever wants to know what "lesbian".
There is a scandal in the marquee when Sonja's new friend Hartmut appears and confronts her because she is dancing with Kati, and finally Wolfgang wants to mark the strong man by harassing Kati on the dance floor. Kati quickly leaves the tent, but is caught up by her teacher, who wants to comfort her, but tries to get closer to her.
Sad and disappointed, Kati walks home again. Her mother has apparently digested the initial shock, because the two of them have an open conversation, after which she even suggests that her daughter bring Yumiko with her next time.
The next day, Kati starts the journey back to Hamburg, but at the last second she is overtaken by Sonja at the train station, who tries to explain to her the reasons why she couldn't follow her friend the night before. The center of her life is here and she cannot break out of the petty-bourgeois network. The two promise each other to keep in touch.
Once in Hamburg, Kati is finally received by Yumiko and Jo and congratulated on her successful coming-out, even if it may have turned out a little different than she had imagined.
Reviews
coming out of tv: "Funny film about returning to the place of childhood and the difficulties of coming out to the family. Both the first crush for the teacher and the question of your straight best friend, whether you have ever been in love with her and why not, if you deny this, will not be forgotten. All of this is portrayed in an enjoyable way, without making fun of the characters, and the director and the screenwriter manage to capture the scent of the small, rural world. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: How do I tell mother? ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on February 4, 2018]).
- ↑ Benno Gammerl: A rainbow story | bpb. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Come out Mausi ( Memento from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )