Today, more women than men report from conflict zones. They get to places that are forbidden to men. The documentary presents women who have documented wars from the past 100 years: French Christine Spengler (*1945) worked in Afghanistan, Iran, Northern Ireland, Chad and Vietnam; French Camille Lepage (1988-2014) died on duty in unexplained circumstances in the Central African Republic’s civil war; American Lee Miller (1907-1977) was one of the few women photographers of the Second World War; Alice Schalek (1874-1956) worked in the Austrian-Hungarian Kriegspressequartier (embedded journalists) during the First World War; Gerda Taro (1910-1937) photographed and died in the Spanish Civil War.
Admission is free of charge, but limited to the venue’s capacities.
The Franco-German TV station arte will show the film on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8. March 2016 at 2255h.
Kriegsfotografinnen: Der Kampf um Bilder, Leben und Tod
Documentary by Sigrid Faltin
arte/SWR 2016, 52′
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstr. 7
10963 Berlin
Germany
Film premiere and discussion with Christine Spengler: 24 February 2016, 1900h
arte
Screening on 8 March 2016, 2255h