Mein Leben Teil 2

Angelika Levi belonged to the feminist queer punk scene of 1980s West Berlin and studied at the dffb Berlin. During this time, she made numerous experimental films exploring female queer sexuality, fetish, and identity. When her mother died of cancer in 1996 and left her an extensive biographical archive of objects, photographs, cine footage, and video and audio cassettes (one of which bears the title inscription MY LIFE PART 2), she began to explore her family history. Her mother emigrated to Chile in 1947, where she worked as a biologist analyzing the “adaptability of plants under extreme conditions.” Ten years later, she returned to Germany and married a Protestant theologian. Levi takes her Christian-Jewish family's complex history of persecution, flight, and displacement as a personal reference to reflect on repressed contexts, typical narrative patterns, and the relationship between private and public historiography. (Clarissa Thieme)