Go Clara Go (2025)

Behind the acronym Clara Mosch was a Saxon avant-garde art collective that was active from 1977 to 1982. The name is formed from the initials of the participants’ surnames: Michael Morgner, Thomas Ranft, Carlfriedrich Claus, Gregor-Torsten Schade, and Dagmar Ranft-Schinke. Through their spontaneous actions, they shook up East Germany’s cultural scene. Kira Taszman describes the film, made 40 years after the group’s dissolution, as “a tribute to a rebellious artists’ collective.” Together with the Galerie Oben, the Clara Mosch group organized experimental performances and artists’ festivals, and created collaborative works. Director Sylvie Kürsten had extensive archival material at her disposal, since a photographer named Ralf-Rainer Wasse thoroughly documented the group’s activities. The photographs Wasse took for the Ministry for State Security between 1975 and 1986 have survived as historical records. She also had access to historical Super 8 footage. Actress Jule Böwe lends her voice to the fictional “Clara Mosch.” She recounts the group’s development, analyzes its actions, and places them in their historical context.