Library Day
Library Day
Film presentation
Library Day.
Female filmmakers from the Bauhaus: catching up on visibility
Female filmmakers from the Bauhaus: catching up on visibility
24 Oct 2025
4:30 – 5:30 pm
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Free admission
Bauhaus Building
Library
Library
Contemporaries labelled the abstract films of the 1920s as absolute films, as visual music or even as abstract plays of light – disturbing for some, avant-garde for others.
Little attention has been paid to the fact that the two Bauhaus members Ré Soupault (née Erna Niemeyer) and Lore Leudesdorff played a key role in this body of absolute films – as partners of Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann. They always remained unnamed in the credits – uncredited!
In his film lecture, curator Thomas Tode corrects the established view that these works were created solely by male hero artists. With numerous film examples.
Thomas Tode, Hamburg, freelance film-maker, curator and publicist. Editor of bauhaus & film (2011), co-curator of the exhibition Bauhaus in Action (Dessau 2009) and the exhibition bauhaus.film.expanded (ZKM Karlsruhe 2020).