Online event with the Weimar Film Network: “Weimar Germany’s First Nasty Women,” September 25, 2024

Weimar Germany’s First Nasty Women

Presented by the Weimar Film Network

September 25, 2024, 5pm (UK)

Wayward women reigned supreme on screen and behind-the-scenes of Weimar Germany’s global filmmaking industry during the interregnum between World War One and the fascist rise of Nazi dictatorship. Ossi Oswalda, Ellen Richter, Rosa Porten, Henny Porten, Wanda Treumann, Lotte Neumann, and Lotte Reiniger are among the better known examples of German women who raised a ruckus on the altar of aesthetic experimentation in cinema. 

In this session, we will share resources from the front lines of feminist archival film historiography. We are joined by Kate Saccone, the project manager of the Women Film Pioneers Project, and two of the curators of the DVD/Blu-ray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Maggie Hennefeld. We will unveil and brainstorm future plans to represent Weimar cinema’s first (but not last!!) “nasty women” across various curatorial and archival initiatives.

Rosa Porten. DEK