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ON SCREEN: CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH – WANDERER BETWEEN THE WORLDS, Sat 10.10.2021, 16.15 arte

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the greatest landscape painters ever. Almost forgotten after his death, his misty landscapes and lonely mountains were able to unfold an undreamt-of effect in the 20th century. The documentary tells of the painter’s life in Greifswald and Dresden and searches for traces in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and on the Baltic Sea. Directed by Nicola Graef and Frauke Schlieckau. A Lona Media production. 52. min.

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IN CINEMA: CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH – WANDERER BETWEEN THE WORLDS. PREMIERE: Thursday, 7.10.2021, 6 p.m., Passage Kino Leipzig

Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the greatest landscape painters ever. Almost forgotten after his death, his misty landscapes and lonely mountains were able to unfold an undreamt-of effect in the 20th century. The documentary tells of the painter’s life in Greifswald and Dresden and searches for traces in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and on the Baltic Sea. Directed by Nicola Graef and Frauke Schlieckau. A Lona Media production. 52. min.

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ON SCREEN: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARTS. 7.07. ORF 2, 23.30, 37 min.

More and more artists are addressing climate change in their work. But the art world has a credibility problem. Isn’t it dishonest when artists address climate change in their works, but fly around the world all the time to do so? The film “Climate Change in Art” by Frauke Schlieckau discusses the topic with artists, gallery owners, authors and creatives. Written and directed by Frauke Schlieckau. A Kobalt Production.

 

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ON SCREEN: MIRNA FUNK IN PORTRAIT. ZDF aspekte, 28.05.201, 11.00 p.m.

The writer Mirna Funk writes zeitgeist novels with depth. She also speaks out on the campaign platform “Pink Stinks” about the care debate and discusses what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century on the hipster shabbat talk show “Freitagnacht Jews.” As a self-confident, optimistic woman, Funk thus stands for a new generation of German-Jewish literature that can come up with small talk on Instagram as well as literary texts and “Fallhöhe.” Written and directed by Frauke Schlieckau. A Bottega Berlin production for ZDF aspekte.

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ON SCREEN: REMBRANDT, HABIBI!, 3sat Kulturzeit, 06.05.2021, 19.00pm

In her podcast “Rembrandt, habibi,” which is well worth listening to, journalist Amina Aziz examines the Dutch Baroque painter and his contemporaries from a postcolonial perspective. Together with her, we visit the exhibition “Rembrandt’s Orient” to look at the art of the beloved painter and his contemporaries with irreverence, rather than reverence, for a change. For Rembrandt and his colleagues, artists at the center of a brutally expanding colonial regime, created a strange, fictional image of the Orient with their paintings. How should, how must we deal with it today? A Bottega Berlin production for 3sat Kulturzeit.

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ON SCREEN: REMBRANDT, HABIBI!, 3sat Kulturzeit, 06.05.2021, 7pm

In her podcast “Rembrandt, habibi,” which is well worth listening to, journalist Amina Aziz examines the Dutch Baroque painter and his contemporaries from a postcolonial perspective. Together with her, we visit the exhibition “Rembrandt’s Orient” to look at the art of the beloved painter and his contemporaries with irreverence, rather than reverence, for a change. For Rembrandt and his colleagues, artists at the center of a brutally expanding colonial regime, created a strange, fictional image of the Orient with their paintings. How should, how must we deal with it today? A Bottega Berlin production for ZDF aspekte.

 

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IN PRODUCTION: A PORTRAIT ABOUT MIRNA FUNK, ZDF Aspekte, May 28, 2021 11 p.m., 5 min.

Mirna Funk stands for a new generation of German-Jewish literature. Her novel “Between You and I” is set in Berlin and Tel Aviv. As the great-granddaughter of Stephan Hermlin, one of the GDR’s best-known writers, she belongs to the first generation in East Berlin to mature after the fall of the Wall. With dual residency in Berlin and Tel Aviv, she can hardly be assigned to the old patterns of German-Jewish behavior. Like Max Czollek, who belongs to the same generation and calls on Jews to “disintegrate” – to refuse the role assigned to them in the German “theater of memory” – Mirna Funk negotiates quite different, unexpected themes. A Bottega Berlin production for ZDF aspekte.

 

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IN PRODUCTION. Alice Neel. THE SOUL REAPER. ARTE / NDR, 52 Min.

With unusual psychological and artistic brilliance, Alice Neel (1900-1984) painted the most interesting subject she could imagine: People. Like many great women artists of her time, she was mostly not very successful during her lifetime, and even after her death she was not duly recognised for a long time. Today she is one of the most important artists in America.  Neel’s oeuvre is an expression of the deepest humanity. In her paintings, the American captured souls and used socially relevant themes. But why did she paint almost exclusively portraits and what made the genre so appealing? How did the American artist manage to capture people’s souls in her portraits? And what do Neel’s portraits and self-portraits reveal about the time in which she lived and about her own artistic soul? Written / directed by Frauke Schlieckau. A Lona Media production.