2025

Public Event European Month of Photography - EMOP Festival 2025
Book Launch and Audio Play: Strömungen in Bewegung / Kontaktanzeigen

Sunday, March 9th, 2025, 3-6:30pm
Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Uferstr. 13, 13357 Berlin

3pm - 4:30 pm
Book presentation Strömungen in Bewegung with a conversation between Luise Schröder and Christin Müller

5pm - 6:30 pm
Audio play Kontaktanzeigen-Queere Generationendialoge in Ostdeutschland, afterwards Luise Schröder in dialogue with Judith Geffert

As part of the exhibition Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will (engl. Always saying out loud what’s up and I want), Luise Schröder will present her artist book Strömungen in Bewegung being published in March 2025 by FOTOHOF EDITION and designed by Anika Rosen. Thematically as well as aesthetically it illuminates the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR of the 1980s and 1990s. Artistically edited and altered by Luise Schröder, the image and text material used in the publication originates from the GrauZone collection of the Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library. The artist not only deals with historical gaps, but also looks at archives as powerful institutions. On the basis of the new publication Luise Schröder and Christin Müller look at strategies of self-empowerment and feminist resistance practices and place them in relation to the present in order to discuss plural and alternative perspectives on GDR history.

Afterwards, the audio play Kontaktanzeigen-Queere Generationendialoge in Ostdeutschland by Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, Judith Geffert and Jule Gorke forges a link to frau anders - an underground magazine that connected and inspired numerous women and lesbians in the GDR at the end of the 1980s. There is little dialogue between the pioneers of that time and young queers today. The audio play initiates contact.

Christin Müller studied cultural studies, aesthetic practice and photography and works as a freelance curator and author for photography.

Judith Geffert is a freelance radio author and cultural scientist. She researches lesbian counter-publicity in the late GDR and the transition period and contributed an accompanying text for the Luise Schröder's artist book Strömungen in Bewegung.

The event is part of the public program of EMOP 2025
and Berlin Artistic Research Programme.
Link to Audio Play Kontaktanzeigen

Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will
March 2–27, 2025
Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Uferstr. 13, 13357 Berlin

OPENING: Saturday, March 1st, 2025, 3pm

Opening hours: Tue & Wed 11am–6pm Uhr and by appointment
Special EMOP opening hours: Sunday, March 2, 2025, 11am–6pm

In her photographic installation Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will (engl. Always saying out loud what’s up and I want), Luise Schröder deals with the often forgotten activities of women’s and lesbian groups in the GDR in the 1980s/90s, addressing forms of self-empowerment and resistance, as well as the tense relationship between the past and the present.

Link to the exhibition on EMOP Website
and link to the Berlin Artistic Research Programme.

After more than a year of work...I am very happy, that my new artist book
Strömungen in Bewegung has just arrived in Berlin!

Luise Schröder: Strömungen in Bewegung
Designed by Anika Rosen and published by FOTOHOF>EDITION.
Texts: Luise Schröder and Judith Geffert
Flexcover, 304 pages, Number of Copies: 500
38 Euros

Available from March 2025 via: publikation@luiseschroeder.org
and via FOTOHOF>EDITION

Thematically as well as aesthetically the artist book Strömungen in Bewegung illuminates the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR of the 1980s and 1990s. Artistically edited and altered by Luise Schröder, the image and text material used in the publication originates from the GrauZone collection of the Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library. The artist not only deals with historical gaps, but also looks at archives as powerful institutions. By placing strategies of self-empowerment and feminist resistance practices in relation to the present, the artist book enables plural and alternative perspectives on GDR history. The publication Strömungen in Bewegung will be officially released in March 2025 by FOTOHOF>EDITION and was commissioned, supported and financed by the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, the Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur and the SpallArt Collection.

My special thanks for this project goes to the photographers Leo Tesch, Bettina Dziggel (†), Kerstin Baarmann, Christine Starke, Kerstin Drischner, Mechthild Ziegenhagen and Christina Karstädt. Without their work and commitment to document the present through photography in the 1980s and 1990s, this publication — and the way I view history — would not have been possible. My heartfelt gratitude also goes to Samirah Kenawi, who founded and developed the GrauZone archive collection. I also thank all the women, activists, contemporary witnesses and individuals who have supported and accompanied me in creating this publication: Bärbel Klässner, Ulrike Monnecke, Eva Schäfer, Christiane Baumann, Michaela Beck, Heike Grebin, Katharina Vogel-Gladkowski, Annette Maennel, Alexandra Maria Bühler, Ute Großmann, Nina Großmann, Uta Kehr, Sylke Stübner, Gabi Zekina, Ines Koennen, Grit Sellin, Ina Röder Sissoko, Christina Kurby, Christiane Kloweit, Ev Labsch, Anne Böwe, Sylvia Bork, Sibyll Klotz, Martina Kleppisch, Annett Gröschner, Marina Krug and Karin Dauenheimer. For their collaboration and support during the development of this publication, I am especially grateful to Anika Rosen, Ulrike Hannemann, Katrin Winkler, Andra Spallart, Arne Schmitt, Sophia Kesting, Lysan Buschbeck, Sara Lena Maierhofer, Florian Lamm, Inga Plönnigs, Reymund Schröder, Falk Messerschmidt, Martin Haufe, Anna Breit, Karoline Winter, Vika Kalashnikova, Rike Frank, Judith Geffert, Katalin Erdödi, Elske Rosenfeld, Suza Husse and the authors of the publication wild recuperations. material from below. Dissident Stories from the GDR and pOstdeutschland #1, as well as the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, Katia Reich, Claudia Henne, Nadine Weixler, Michael Mauracher and the FOTOHOF, Christoph Ochs and Sabine Teske from the Robert Havemann Society / Archive of the GDR Opposition, and Lara Ledwa from the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library, Berlin.