Bildnis einer Trinkerin – Aller jamais retour

Ulrike Ottinger's stylized, composed feature film BILDNIS EINER TRINKERIN - ALLER JAMAIS RETOUR enables a sightseeing tour through Berlin, an exploration of the city's topography along a special route: the nameless traveler (Tabea Blumenschein) who arrives at Tegel Airport only wants to pursue her passion, which is drinking, undisturbed. Rich, unfamiliar in Berlin and hiding her feelings like a mask, she deliberately drinks herself to death, accompanied by Lutze, a drinker from Zoo Station, who is poor, familiar with her surroundings and open-hearted and drinking herself to death more unconsciously than not. On their travels, they meet musicians, writers and artists, including Nina Hagen, Kurt Raab, Volker Spengler, Günther Meisner, Martin Kippenberger, Eddie Constantine, Wolf and Mercedes Vostell. Three ladies with the names “social questions”, “common sense” and “exact statistics” play the goddesses of fate in an administered, technologized, standardized world shaped by mass media.