Under the title:

Work and Female Identity in the GDR

students at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris have put together a film program. The screenings will take place here:

Goethe-Institut Paris
17, avenue d’Iéna
75116 Paris
France
Contact

Phone +33 1 44439230
Email info-paris@goethe.de

December 3, 2025, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Supporting film:
Susis Schicht (Susi’s Shift) by Petra Tschörtner, GDR, 1978, 7 min., silent

All My Girls

Film | by Iris Gusner

December 3, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Pride and Attitude

Film | by Gerd Kroske

In German with French subtitles

Details

“How did work shape female identity in the GDR? The official discourse celebrated the “fully integrated” woman in production, the equality enshrined in the constitution, and state-sponsored motherhood. Behind this idealized image of the socialist woman and the real progress made lay another reality: that of a double burden between factory and household, between promised emancipation and denied recognition.
The films in the program give a voice to those who experienced this contradiction. Through their gestures, their stories, and their sometimes disarming humor, a sensitive portrait emerges of a generation of women whose often invisible work nevertheless sustained an entire world.”

Further information at:

https://www.goethe.de/ins/fr/de/ver.cfm?event_id=27139055