Protagonists | Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, die Bewohner des Dorfes Berka |
Author / Director | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Camera | Peter Badel |
Sound | Jürgen Schönhoff |
Montage | Gudrun Steinbrück |
Music | Tonfarm Leipzig |
Financing | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Producer | Maria Wischnewski |
Producer | Christian Beetz |
Production | Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion |
Partner | MDR, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Defa Stiftung |
Length / Year | 90 Min. / 2010 |
Format | Digi-Beta, DVD |
photo: gundula schulze-eldowy
JUST AN ORDINARY LIFE relates the life and work of Helga Paris, Sibylle Bergemann and Gundula Schulze-Eldowy, three photographers living in East Berlin during the GDR era. All three worked freelance in their own unique way, sometimes on the very edge of illegality. Censored and forbidden to work, they created a critical and sensitive portrait of the GDR. The photographers remember the genesis of their photographic series, their exciting lives, their roles as women and their experiences with censorship and the Stasi.
Protagonists | Sibylle Bergemann, Helga Paris, Gundula Schulze-Edowy |
Author / Director | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Camera | Andreas Höfer |
Music | Jan Tilman Schade |
Montage | Hanka Knipper |
sound mixing | Hans Schumann |
Sound | Andreas Gläßer, Peter Schmidt |
Production | Pamela Meyer-Arndt Filmproduktion |
Jahr | 2006 |
Format | Digi-Beta |
Length | 76 Min. |
Partner | MDR / WDR / 3sat |

Protagonists | Helmut Lachenmann, Helmut Oehring, Georg Katzer, Georg Kallweit, Stephan Mai |
Author/ Director | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Camera | Honno Kunow |
Montage | Hanka Knipper |
Sound | Michael Fiedler |
Producer | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Production | Radial System Berlin |
Partner | Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Aufführungsort Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg |
Year | 2009 |
Length | 30 Min. |
Format | DVD |
photo: sibylle bergemann
In DIE MÄRCHENHAFTE, photographer Sibylle Bergemann takes a look back. As a GDR photographer, she worked for the legendary magazine “Sibylle” and as a freelancer. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she took photos for many reputable West German magazines such as Geo and Stern and saw the world – Yemen, for example. There she created dreamlike images of women in haute Couture.
Protagonists | Sibylle Bergemann, Helga Paris, Gundula Schulze-Edowy |
Author / Director | Pamela Meyer-Arndt |
Camera | Andreas Höfer |
Montage | Hanka Knipper |
sound mixing | Hans Schumann |
Sound | Andreas Gläßer |
Production | Pamela Meyer-Arndt Filmproduktion |
Jahr | 2006 |
Format | Digi-Beta |
Length | 30 Min. |
Partner | MDR |