Einfach Machen - She Punks from 1977 to today
Germany/Switzerland (2024); 89 min; German original version
director: Reto Caduff
Punk is a promise - of rebellion and self-empowerment! "Don't talk, do it!" is the motto. What counts is the idea and the courage to stand on a stage. And this is especially true for the women in the scene: Östro 430 was founded in Düsseldorf, Mania D, later Malaria!, in West Berlin and Kleenex, later LiLiput, in Zurich. Their role models came from England and were called X-Ray Spex, The Slits, The Raincoats or Siouxsie Sioux. They wrote songs about female role clichés and philistinism, about machos and dogmatic feminists. It's about female desire and sexual self-determination. And always about conquering free spaces - within the male-dominated punk scene, but also in society as a whole.