Gabriele Stötzer on feminist art in the GDR: behind the masks of the time | free press

It is November 17, 1976. Gabriele Stötzer is typing the petition against Wolf Biermann’s expatriation on her typewriter and is the first to sign it. She is arrested the night before she wants to bring the list to Berlin. It is her first personal contact with the state security: By 1989 she was to be tried in four…