Film by Klaus Wildenhahn, 1982
As early as 1982, Klaus Wildenhahn produced a film about the work of Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. A cinematic document that captures not only the choreographer and her company but also the early 1980s in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Lichtburg returns to its previous incarnation as a cinema. Documentary films made in different decades and from different perspectives look at the work of Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Among the directors are Chantal Akerman, Klaus Wildenhahn, Lee Yanor, Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch herself.