The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard von Bingen (Sukowa), 12th-century ...

Margarethe von Trotta, who helped lead the New German Cinema movement and has been considered one of the world’s premiere feminist filmmakers ever since directing (with then-husband Volker Schlöndorff ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook At the time of the Crusades, corporal punishment in religious orders was commonplace. This ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

We find ourselves in the depths of the 12th-century Middle Ages: apocalyptic visions and self-flagellation are the order of the day. In these dark times, noble daughters were often deposited in ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

One of Europe’s preeminent film directors for more than three decades, Margarethe von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg, The Promise) was born in Berlin 1942 and relocated to Düsseldorf with her mother after the ...

I am developing the stage design and visuals for a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider with Beth Morrison Projects and directed by Elkannah Pulitzer, based on the early life of Hildegard von Bingen, ...

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