Tina Bara

The rough, unkempt facades in Prenzlauer Berg – as if the skin had been peeled off the houses, says photographer Tina Bara. Having grown up in a prefabricated building, the young woman was drawn to East Berlin. She quickly got in conflict with the state, just like the artists Cornelia Schleime and Gabriele Stötzer, whom director Pamela Meyer-Arndt questions in her film about memories, traumas and creative genesis.

A photographic film based on more than 400 black-and-white photographs taken in the years 1983-1989 in the late stages of the GDR.

A photographic film based on more than 400 black-and-white photographs taken in the years 1983-1989 in the late stages of the GDR.