Peter Voigt
1) Theater Work
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
From May to October 1974, Peter Voigt filmed at the Berliner Ensemble (BE) during the 25th anniversary of the theater’s founding. Voigt, a member of the BE himself in the 1950s, interviewed theater technicians who had been part of the world-famous ensemble for decades. Sharing experiences, memories and impressions from their particular point of view, they paint an intriguing picture of the theater’s history. This documentary, originally shot on...
2) Photographs
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
This experimental film, set to music by Bach, illustrates quotations from the works of Karl Marx with PHOTOGRAPHS of proletarian daily life from the mid-1800s to the present. Peter Voigt and photographer Arno Fischer worked on the four double-stelae of Berlin’s Marx-Engels Forum project from 1977 to 1982. For the stelae they were planning, they researched PHOTOGRAPHS in Amsterdam, New York, Washington, London and Moscow. This film is a direct result...
3) Dusk
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as Cold War secret service agents and black marketeers. Former East Berlin bohemians gather at Ganymed, the legendary restaurant near Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. In the early 1990s, soon after the fall of the Wall, they recall...