Films by Gisela Tuchtenhagen

Germany 2023, 97 min
by Katja Baumgarten

A child died at birth. Four years later, in August 2012, her midwife and doctor was on trial, charged with manslaughter.On almost all of the 59 days of the proceedings, I sat in the courtroom and observed the jury trial against the colleague. In a midwifery journal, I continuously reported in detail on the trial, which lasted more than two years.What happened in the courtroom was a real-life tragedy, that captivated me with all its facets: The emotional content, the stories of the people involve

Germany 2021, 80 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

The film chronicles the fates of three men who accidentally got caught in the mills of the secret police and the judiciary of the former GDR. They look back on a life that was torn from their hands by arbitrariness, secret police and justice. Their everyday life consisted of torture, hunger and violations of human dignity. Today they are around 90 years old and tell their story on behalf of 250,000 imprisoned GDR citizens.2021 29 FFHH Filmfest Hamburg63 Nordic Film Days Lübeck2022LETsDOK

Germany 2015, 90 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

“I’ve brought them into the world and I’ve also looked after them once they’ve left the world. And that was also beautiful!” Quote from Anni Both, midwife and caretaker of the dead. Our documentary from the north of Germany is about manners and customs in dealing with death and the dead – old crafts, the changes in funeral culture, the northern German landscape and, above all, the people, their lives and their language. They are master carpenters, casket makers, morticians, grave diggers, pallb

Germany 2011, 84 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

The documentary traces the lives of courageous rural women as they grow older: their wishes, their dreams, and their hopes of the big win at Bingo. Gisela, Christel, Elke, Helga and Emmi are rooted in the northern German land of Schleswig-Holstein; they come from humble backgrounds and speak the Low German dialect. After basic schooling they had to go into service on farms, married very young, and bore their children. Today they live alone and have taken their lives into their own hands. They we