Baldiga - Entsichertes Herz (2024)
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A documentary portrait of Jürgen Baldiga, whose photographs chronicled West Berlin’s queer scene and life with HIV and AIDS.
The story
In 1979, Jürgen Baldiga leaves Essen for Berlin, determined to become an artist. He supports himself by working as a cook and male prostitute while beginning to write poems and diaries. After learning in 1984 that he is HIV-positive, he turns to photography. The documentary traces Baldiga’s artistic development and his documentation of Berlin’s gay subculture and everyday life with HIV and AIDS. Director Markus Stein draws on Baldiga’s estate, archival photographs and videos, and reenactments of moments from the photographer’s work to create a portrait of both the artist and his community.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film portrays the artist Jürgen Baldiga, who documented West Berlin’s queer scene with his photographs in the 1980s and early 1990s. Markus Stein’s film about the photographer Baldiga is also a portrait of Berlin’s gay subculture in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1979, Jürgen Baldiga came to Berlin from Essen and decided to become an artist. To support himself, he worked as a cook and a male prostitute. He began his artistic development by writing poems and diaries. After learning in 1984 that he was HIV-positive, he began working with photography. He became an important visual documentarian of Berlin’s gay subculture and of everyday life with HIV and AIDS. In his documentary, Markus Stein draws on Baldiga’s extensive estate, which is held at the Schwules Museum, other photographic and video material from the period, and reenactments of iconic moments from Baldiga’s photographic work.
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