Lesung | Doris Dörrie | Wohnen
Doris Dörrie, the acclaimed filmmaker and author, shares her life as a resident and asks how and with whom we want to live – an infinite variety of living arrangements unfolds.
Doris Dörrie is a resident against her will. She never wanted to settle down, establish roots, but she has always been fascinated by how others live. In California, she attends house viewings just to imagine other lives in different spaces. On her countless travels to Japan, Mexico, Morocco, America, and Southern Europe, she sees how closely living is tied to the respective culture. And in her work as a filmmaker, she becomes an expert in creating artificial living environments. Yet, while describing her own childhood home, student apartments, shared flats, and her experimental life in the countryside, one question keeps resurfacing: Where has the space for women gone in all these houses and apartments? Could it be that the housewife has simply evolved into a woman in the house with others? Doris Dörrie is firmly determined: she wants to find her very own way of living.
Doris Dörrie, born in Hanover, studied theater and acting in the USA but decided to pursue directing instead and attended film school in Munich. Alongside her filmmaking (including "Mitten ins Herz," "Männer," "Kirschblüten – Hanami," "Grüße aus Fukushima"), she published children's books, short stories, novels (including "Das blaue Kleid," "Diebe und Vampire"), a book on writing ("Leben, schreiben, atmen"), and autofiction (including "Die Heldin reist," "Die Reisgöttin"). She lives in Munich. Copyright Author* Photo: Matthias Bothor
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