Sibylle Schönemann, Screening and Discussion of “Locked Up Time” (1990)

Co-sponsored by the Center for German & European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+. 

Registration is required.

Screening available here.

Sibylle Schönemann was born on October 5, 1953 in Berlin, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Verriegelte Zeit (1990), Ramona (1979) and Those Days in Terezin (1997). After documentary filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann applied to leave the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR; 1949-1990) and go to West Germany in 1984, she was arrested by the Stasi—the East German secret police—and imprisoned for the “crime” of “interfering with state activities.” One year later, after West Germany literally bought her freedom, she was released.

The documentary film “Locked Up Time” (“Verriegelte Zeit”) centers on Schönemann going back to the East a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. She confronts the people responsible for her imprisonment: fellow workers, prison guards and members of the Stasi. Not all of them are willing to talk.

Register here to join us for the discussion with director Sibylle Schönemann and Professor Sonja Klocke.

Please find the link to the film  Verriegelte Zeit here: https://vimeo.com/985035543?share=copy