Original Sin. Der Gang der Frau im Sozialismus

A true story: While East Germany was erecting its anti-fascist protective wall around Berlin, Luise Brand managed to build a majestic house in the village Übermasstedt in Thuringia, where she lived together with her older husband, her younger lover, two daughters, and two dogs. Relations that broke more than just socialist moral conceptions. A house with walls as thick as the Berlin Wall. That wall is gone. Luise Brand is dead. East German socialism failed. Übermasstedt has met an evil fate. Capitalism. The house lives. It lives and it is not pretty. A radio drama/road movie revue – combining autobiographical reality, hyperreal flashbacks, Hollywood musical elements, and rigorous camera angles. What happens on the radio when filmic framing seeks to define acoustic space? This radio drama is based on an unpublished script by Susanne Sachsse.

Susanne Sachsse is a Berlin-based actress. Her artistic work has developed along three main axes: as a solo performer in art, theater, performance, dance, and film; as a musician; and in collaborative performance and installation projects as part of the art collective CHEAP as well as with many other international artists. Sachsse was awarded the Premio Maguey Queer Icon Award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico and is the star of five films by Canadian queercore filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. She is featured in works by Yael Bartana, Zach Blas, Vaginal Davis, Ligia Lewis, and Natascha Sadr Haghighian, among many others.