Tabea Blumenschein
1952 - 2020Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
Ulrike Ottinger
Veruschka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig
Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him. Ulrike Ottinger, 1984
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Taxi zum Klo
Frank Ripploh
Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup
Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways.
Taxi zum Klo
Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen
Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger
Tabea Blumenschein, Valeska Gert
In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren Fatality can survive.
The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
Laokoon & Söhne
Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger
Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger
Ottinger’s debut film already contains many of the elements that would appear in her later works: an extraordinary woman, an unusual country, and a chain of magic transformations that give rise to eccentric characterizations by an ensemble cast, here featuring Tabea Blumenschein in multiple roles. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Ottinger’s allegorical work explores themes of death, destruction, and resurrection. With striking camerawork reminiscent of the antics of avant-garde psychodramas, Laocoon & Sons is filled with an exuberant sense of life, myth, tradition, and magic.
Laocoon & Sons
GLOW
Gabrielle Baur
Irene Staub, Ursula Rodel
She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.
GLOW
Uliisses
Werner Nekes
Armin Wölfl, Tabea Blumenschein
Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Uliisses
Madame X - Eine absolute Herrscherin
Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger
Tabea Blumenschein, Roswitha Janz
The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvonne Rainer) embark on a quest for self-transformation, which quickly heads towards destruction as they are subjected to Madame X's sadistic, erotic escapades.
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
