Bildnis einer Trinkerin | Rahmenprogramm zur Ausstellung in der Sammlung Prinzhorn

In the organizer's words:

PORTRAIT OF A DRINKER

Wednesday, August 27, 7:30 pm, Gloria

Supporting program for the exhibition NORMAL#VERRÜCKT in the Prinzhorn Collection

Introduction and discussion:
Prof. Dr. Viola Balz, historian of science, professor of psychology and member of the "normal#verrückt" research group

D 1979 | Director: Ulrike Ottinger | 107 min.
Cast: Tabea Blumenschein, Christine Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, Martin Kippenberger

Berlin in the 1970s: Two women embark on an uninhibited drinking spree through the city. One of them - young, wealthy, attractive - comes to Berlin to indulge in alcohol anonymously and unmolested. At her side: Lutze, known as the "drinker from the zoo", an old, impoverished woman who - in contrast to the young woman who acts consciously - unconsciously drinks herself to death. On their tour, the two encounter numerous musicians, authors and artists - including Nina Hagen, Kurt Raab, Volker Spengler, Günther Meisner, Martin Kippenberger, Eddie Constantine as well as Wolf and Mercedes Vostell. Three allegorical figures with the names "social questions", "common sense" and "exact statistics" accompany them as modern goddesses of fate in a technologized, standardized world shaped by mass media.

The avant-garde film by renowned director Ulrike Ottinger will be shown as part of the current special exhibition "normal#crazy" at the Prinzhorn Collection Museum. The exhibition focuses on the changing boundaries between "normal" and "crazy" since 1945. "Bildnis einer Trinkerin" is a feminist reflection on female alcohol consumption and at the same time a media-critical counter-project to society's perception of the "drinking woman". When it was released in 1979, the film was reviewed in almost all major German newspapers and generated a broad public response. It is therefore particularly well-suited to making contemporary shifts in the perception of "normal" and "crazy" visible. In particular, the film addresses the blurring of the boundary between normality and madness in the urban space of West Berlin and criticizes the stereotypical image of the dependent woman in the mass media.

Price information:

regular: € 10,- | reduced: € 8,- (Reduction: Guild pass, students, pupils, senior citizens over 65, severely disabled pass, social pass)