Film & Kunst: "Charlotte"

In the organizer's words:

In the "Film & Art" series, we are showing a film about the story of the artist Charlotte Salomon: CHARLOTTE

DEU/NLD 1980. D: Frans Weisz. D: Birgit Doll, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Brigitte Horney. 96 min. 35mm projection. FSK: 6

The film about the artist Charlotte Salomon (1917 - 1943) begins in January 1939 with her escape from Berlin to the south of France. Here, painting becomes a tool for the 21-year-old to deal with her despair over her mother's suicide and her grandmother's suicidal thoughts. Within 18 months, she created a cycle of 1325 paintings entitled "Life? Or Theater?", in which she depicts her life in Berlin using stylistic elements of comics and film. Charlotte Salomon was born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1917 and studied at the art academy in Berlin until 1937. In 1943, she married the Austrian emigrant Alexander Nagler; in the same year, the couple was handed over to the German occupying forces, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. "This is my whole life" - with these words, Charlotte handed over a suitcase of all the works she had created up to that point to a confidante in 1942. Her cycle of paintings has inspired several films and operas and has been presented in numerous exhibitions, for the first time in 1961 in Amsterdam, where her work is still kept today, and most recently in 2023 on the 80th anniversary of her death at the Lenbachhaus in Munich.

Price information:

10€ regular/ 7€ reduced/ 6€ members Cinema Quadrat e.V.