I Am My Own Woman

I Am My Own Woman (German: Ich bin meine eigene Frau ) is a 1992 German semi-documentarian film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film attracted international attention and was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival in 1993, for example.[1][2]

I Am My Own Woman
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRosa von Praunheim
Written byValentin Passoni
Starring
CinematographyLorenz Haarmann
Edited byMike Shephard
Music byJoachim Litty
Production
company
Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Release date
1992
Running time
91 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Plot

Rosa von Praunheim's portrait of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Bergfelde in 1928, is probably the best-known transvestite in the former GDR (Charlotte is often misrepresented as a transgender person. Even if he liked to play with gender roles, he defined himself as a transvestite). In a mixture of documentation, interview and staged scenes, Rosa von Praunheim traces the stages of an outsider's life: from playing hide-and-seek under the Nazis to setting up his Gründerzeit museum in Mahlsdorf to the harassment in the GDR. After an eventful life with many hurdles, he was finally awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards

1993: FIPRESCI Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam[3]

Reception

"A moving picture." (Cinema Journal, 1992)[4] "A celebration! Powerful, dramatic and original!" (Gay Times)[4] "Anything but conventional!" (New York Times)[4]

Notes
  1. "ICH BIN MEINE EIGENE FRAU". Mubi. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  2. Kuzniar, The Queer German Cinema, p. 111
  3. "Rosa von Praunheim". International Federation of Film Critics. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  4. "ICH BIN MEINE EIGENE FRAU". Cinema Journal, 1992. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

References
  • Kuzniar, Alice A, The Queer German Cinema, Stanford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8047-3995-1
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