Margit Czenki

Margit Czenki (* 1941 ) is a German director , film editor , camerawoman and installation artist .

life and work

Margit Czenki passed her exam as a kindergarten teacher in Freiburg and then worked in the profession. Czenki has a son, Ted Gaier (* 1964), who is a founding member of the band " Die Goldenen Zitronen ". Both lived for five months in the High Fish commune at Giselastrasse 12 in Schwabing. The Amon Düül group rehearsed there. The municipality gained notoriety in 1969 when Rainer Langhans and Uschi Obermaier moved in . Czenki studied politics and founded the city's first anti-authoritarian children's shop.

Bank robbery

On April 13, 1971, Margit Czenki, together with her accomplices Rolf Heissler , Karl-Heinz Kuhn and Roland Otto, attacked the Hypo-Bank at Frankfurter Ring 28 in Munich and stole around 50,000 DM. As a blonde bank lady , she makes the headlines. Czenki was caught and sentenced to several years in prison, which she served in the Aichach correctional facility . She was released on parole at Christmas 1975.

"Armed with a drum revolver, the blonde woman with the particularly accentuated cheekbones and her white rubber coat stood on the counter and shaded the bank employees while Kuhn bagged the money, Otto held the bank customers in check and Heißler waited outside in the getaway car."

- The great criminal dictionary

The film The Second Awakening of Christa Klages by Margarethe von Trotta is based on the plot of the bank robbery committed by Czenki.

art

In the 1980s, Margit Czenki became known as a filmmaker and artist. Her first feature film, Accomplices (1987) with Pola Kinski , was shown worldwide. In 1999 she made the film Park Fiction - wishes will leave the apartment and take to the streets .

With Park Fiction she took part in Documenta11 in Kassel in 2002 . Margit Czenki was involved in the planning of the Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space congress in 2003 . In Dresden she designed a clothing collection dedicated to overlooked places. In 2003, Czenki presented the installation Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros (This House is Full of Story) at the Kunsthaus Dresden . In 2014 she showed Playgrounds. Reinventing the Square at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Margit Czenki teaches at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. She lives in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

• 1978: The second awakening of Christa Klages (actress) - Director: Margarethe von Trotta
• 1981: Die Bleierne Zeit (actress) - Director: Margarethe von Trotta
• 1988: accomplices ( TV film ), (director, screenplay)
• 1994: Swingpfennig / Deutschmark (TV film), (director, screenplay)
• 1997: ... and suddenly we saw the sky ( documentary ), (participation) - directors: Sandra Barrios, Ana Gato, Katrin Gebhardt-Seele, Erika Harzer, Anke Spiess, Yessie Macchi Torres
• 1999: Park Fiction - The wishes will leave the apartment and take to the streets (documentary), (director, camera, editor)
• 2004: Abwertungskit ( short film ), (direction, camera, editing, production)
• 2007: Remaining mature attitudes (documentary), (camera) - Director: Peter Ott
• 2009: It rains caviar (short experimental film ), (director, camera, sound, production)

Web links

• Margit Czenki in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Materials by and about Margit Czenki in the documenta archive
• Margit Czenki's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide. Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-9087-X , page 180.
2. ↑ It was known that these were prisons. Interview with Ivo Bozic in Jungle World , accessed January 12, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Margit Czenki - Time to Live. ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 27, 2016. 
4. ↑ Presentation of the artist group 'Park Fiction' in lecture, conversation, film: How art and politics make each other smarter. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 23, 2016. 
5. ↑ Kunsthaus Dresden margit Czenki , accessed on 23 June 2016th
6. ↑ City Curator Hamburg PlanBude: What for whom? ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 23, 2016.