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Wikipedia article




'I Am My Own Woman ' (German: ' Ich bin meine eigene Frau ') is a 1992 German semi-documentarian film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film attracted international attention and was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival in 1993, for example.Kuzniar, 'The Queer German Cinema', p. 111

Plot



Rosa von Praunheim's portrait of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Bergfelde in 1928, is probably the best-known transvestite in the former GDR (Charlotte is often misrepresented as a transgender person. Even if he liked to play with gender roles, he defined himself as a transvestite). In a mixture of documentation, interview and staged scenes, Rosa von Praunheim traces the stages of an outsider's life: from playing hide-and-seek under the Nazis to setting up his Grnderzeit museum in Mahlsdorf to the harassment in the GDR. After an eventful life with many hurdles, he was finally awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards



1993: FIPRESCI Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Reception



"A moving picture." (Cinema Journal, 1992) "A celebration! Powerful, dramatic and original!" (Gay Times) "Anything but conventional!" (New York Times)

Notes



References



* Kuzniar, Alice A, 'The Queer German Cinema', Stanford University Press, 2000,


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