Lesung und Gespräch | Doris Dörrie und Prof. Dr. Susanne Nicole Marschall | Wohnen
Doris Dörrie, the celebrated filmmaker and author, shares her life as a resident and asks how and with whom we want to live – an endless variety of living spaces unfolds.
Doris Dörrie is a resident against her will. She never wanted to settle down, establish a home, or put down 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. During her countless travels to Japan, Mexico, Morocco, America, and Southern Europe, she sees how closely living is tied to each 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 living arrangements, and her experimental life in the countryside, one question continually presses upon her: Where has the space for women gone in all these houses and apartments? Could it be that the housewife has simply become a woman in the house with others? Doris Dörrie is determined: she wants to find her very own way of living.
Doris Dörrie, born in Hanover, studied theater and acting in the USA, but then decided to direct and attended film school in Munich. Alongside her film work (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
Susanne Marschall is a German humanities scholar and professor of media studies at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
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