Films by Osswald Krienke

Germany 2015, 88 min
by Andrea Rothenburg

You can't bring these three strong women down.The author Manu B. must process the heavy trauma that she suffered when she was abused in a Hamburg hospital by a nurse. Since then, fears dominate her life. Heike Korthals became seriously ill as a young mother and got psychosis. Maike Nordmann had already known depression from her childhood, yet later it got a hold on her, laying it's stones across her path. The three women have grown while dealing with their mental health problems, and give others

Germany 2012, 120 min
by Andrea Rothenburg

Alfred has been in a psychiatric hospital for more than 35 years and does not believe he will leave it in his lifetime. He started painting in the psychiatric clinic and is painting monsters on blankets. Painting alleviates his anxieties and helps him to get rid off his anger. Anger about what he experienced. Alfred is one of the 16 psychiatric patients who are portrayed in this documentary. All patients are artistically ambitious and show a wide variety of talents. They are sculptors, painters,