Doris Dörrie und Sabine Lidl - Die Flaneuse

In the organizer's words:

In conversation with Christian Dunker, Doris Dörrie and Sabine Lidl talk about the great happiness of storytelling, in books and films.

There is no female form of the flâneur. A woman doesn't stroll, and when she does, it's at home, from the inside, autobiographically. At least that's how it was when the young Doris Dörrie set off from Hanover to study in America. From abroad, she brought back a fresh view of home and the possibilities of storytelling, making her an exceptional phenomenon in the German cinema landscape of the 1980s.

At the age of just thirty, she achieves a surprise success: MÄNNER attracts over five million viewers in Germany, is shown in fifty American cities, spends thirteen weeks in the "Variety" charts and represents Germany at the Oscars.

The film impresses Martin Scorsese so much that he writes a letter to the young auteur filmmaker. But what do you do after such a success if you don't want to make MÄNNER 2 straight away? Dörrie began to wander, to look at the world and tell stories about it, on the road, always searching for enlightenment, for the cherry blossoms of life.

At the beginning of Sabine Lidl's film, Doris Dörrie hides under a silver origami bag; masked like this, she says, she has a different approach to herself. She doesn't want to feel blackmailed, to be free from socially prescribed role models.

How we present ourselves, who we want to be, that is the question that the protagonists in her films ask themselves again and again. Disarmingly open, approachable and often laughing, Doris Dörrie talks above all about the great happiness of storytelling.

Moderation: Christian Dunker, Geistesblüten

Price information:

Admission: 8 €, reduced: 5 €, members: 3 €