Monday, 20 April 2026, 8 pm, at the Schloßtheater
Introduction: Lea Lünenborg, Guest: Claus Löser
On 20 April, filmclub münster will be showing four short films by Erfurt artist Gabriele Stötzer. The films, shot on Super 8, reveal a radically different cinema: collective, physical, anarchic. The films were made in the 1980s in the GDR underground, away from state production structures. In their formal freedom, Stötzer’s works mark a feminist and queer alternative to the official cultural apparatus.
On show: “Trisal”, an adaptation of the Greek legend of the Golden Fleece (1986, 20 min.). “Veitstanz / Feixtanz” examines the phenomenon of the medieval St Vitus dance, which 13 people practised publicly in Erfurt in 1988 (1988, 20 min.). In “Kentaur” Gabriele Stötzer turns the patriarchal tables with her camera and turns the male body into an object (1988, 9 min.). “…haven’t I amused you brilliantly?” documents one of Stötzer’s painting actions as a pictorial declaration of war on the GDR system (1989, 12 min.).
Tickets and more info at filmclub-muenster.de
During the GDR era, the artist Gabriele Stötzer was the power centre of the lively underground in Erfurt. Following a petition, she was imprisoned for a long time in the 1970s. After her release, she ran an underground gallery and founded a group of women artists, whose story she told in the book Der lange Arm der Stasi (The Long Arm of the Stasi ), published in 2022.
With introduction by Lea Lünenborg and discussion with filmmaker and film critic Claus Löser.
Tickets 10,-/6,-
The filmclub münster is a joint programme of:
Filmwerkstatt Münster, Münstersche Filmtheater-Betriebe, Westfälischer Kunstverein and Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, it is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
