Die Unbeugsamen (2021)
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Women politicians in the Bonn Republic recount their struggle to gain a voice in political decision-making.
The story
Through interviews and archival footage, the film follows women politicians in the Bonn Republic as they fought for a share in political decision-making. Its twelve themed chapters address subjects including gender equality and sexism in parliament, alongside individual figures and landmark parliamentary debates. The material proceeds largely in chronological order, tracing political developments and the women’s efforts to participate in decisions that shaped the period. Interviewees include politicians from several parties as well as journalists, while archival footage brings additional politically active women into the account.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film tells the story of women politicians in the Bonn Republic who fought for a share in political decision-making. Twelve chapters, each with a thematic heading—such as gender equality and sexism in parliament, or focusing on individual figures and landmark parliamentary debates, including the election of H. Kohl as chancellor made possible by the FDP and the Wehrmacht exhibition—follow developments largely in chronological order. In interviews, viewers hear and see Carola von Braun (FDP, 1942–2026), Herta Däubler-Gmelin (SPD, born 1943), Renate Faerber-Husemann (journalist, born 1946), Elisabeth Haines (SPD, born 1936), Renate Hellwig (CDU, born 1940), Marie-Elisabeth Klee (CDU, 1922–2018), Ursula Männle (CSU, born 1944), Ingrid Matthäus-Maier (FDP/SPD, born 1945), Sabine Countess von Nayhauß-Cormons (journalist, born 1942), Christa Nickels (The Greens, born 1952), Renate Schmidt (SPD, born 1943), Helga Schuchardt (FDP, born 1939), Rita Süssmuth (CDU, 1937–2026), and Roswitha Verhülsdonk (CDU, born 1927). Archival footage shows other politically active women, including Aenne Brauksiepe (CDU), Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (FDP), Hannelore Kohl and Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (both CDU; E. Schwarzhaupt was also the first woman minister in Bonn), and Petra Kelly and Waltraud Schoppe (both The Greens).
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