Gernot Steinweg

Germany 2024, 85 min
by Rea Karen, re karen

Fasia Jansen (*1929; † 1997) – a powerful blues singer; daughter of an African king and a German working-class mother – grows up among antifascist dockers in Hamburg. She barely survives the Nazi regime's medical experiments and forced labour in a concentration camp. Yet, after the war, she begins to sing for peace and women's rights. Together with her spouse, Ellen Diederich, she becomes a driving force in the European women's peace movement of the 1980s. Today, she is an identification figure for Black Germans. This documentary is a newly edited version of the film first released in 1987.

2015, 45 min
by Gernot Steinweg

The intriguing story that tells of Professor Richard Agreiter, a Tyrolean sculptor, and his largest bronze statue entitled “GENESE” (‘Genesis’). The sculpture has been commissioned by Raiffeisen-Holding NÖ-Wien, part of an Austrian banking association, and cast at Fonderia Artistica Guastini, an Italian foundry for art. It is “one of the most wonderful large-scale sculptures that has originated in recent decades“ (Director of Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, Mag. Carl Aigner, art historian.)