Kaputt
Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck
© Volker Schlecht
Kaputt | Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl
DEU 2016, Berlinale Shorts
© Volker Schlecht
Volker Schlecht
Kaputt | Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl
DEU 2016, Berlinale Shorts
© Andrej Glusgold
Alexander Lahl
Kaputt | Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl
DEU 2016, Berlinale Shorts
Kaputt is an animated documentary about Burg Hoheneck, the central women’s prison in former GDR. Apart from detention conditions, themes addressed primarily include enforced labour and the utilisation of products manufactured for export to the West. Gabriele Stötzer from Erfurt and Birgit Willschütz from Berlin recall their prison terms at Hoheneck in original interview recordings. The extract of these audio testimonials are interpreted in simple, minimally animated monochrome images.
