STOLZ & EIGENSINN

Germany immediately after reunification. The second great wave of redundancies has reached the East. Women from the former largescale industrial enterprises of the GDR talk about themselves and the personal independence they have gained through their work with surprising naturalness. Self-confident and emancipated, they share their astonishment that suddenly only men are supposed to do their jobs. We also see footage of their day-to-day work in industrial buildings and brown coal mines. The interviews have been preserved on old U-matic tapes from the stocks of the former Leipzig pirate radio station KANAL X.

More than 30 years later, Gerd Kroske has recovered this cinematic treasure. Like an experimental setup, the old material is commented on by the women in split screen. PRIDE & ATTITUDE is a media encirclement that closes a gap and portrays women who have retained their pride and stubbornness to this day.

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Gerd Kroske © Gerd Kroske photos © Pascal Schmit