Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt

Fragments and continuities of feminist history: The essay film HERZBLUTWIESE STADTWERKSTATT addresses feminism, equal rights and equality at Stadtwerkstatt, the longest-running autonomous art and culture center in the city of Linz. In an environment of aesthetic innovation, social revolt, subversive power and artistic-technological developments, the film interweaves text, interviews, artistic productions and archive material from 1979 to the present day into a narrative with shifting perspectives – thus creating a larger social story that extends beyond the city.

Director's Biography

Claudia Dworschak studied Audiovisual Media Design at the University of Art and Design Linz. She specializes in film and performance art in various collectives and is a founding member of the artist collective freundinnen der kunst. Tanja Brandmayr is an artist, curator, editor, and author. She trained dancing and studied Sociology at Johannes Kepler University Linz, and is an editor at the newspapers Versorgerin and Die Referentin and the artistic director of Stadtwerkstatt Linz.

Director's Filmography (Selection)
Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt (2026, doc) - Roadmovie (2019, short, Dworschak as part of freundinnen der kunst; 019; CE20 - Crossing Europe Extracts) - Mein Name ist. Ich bin. (2016, mid-length doc, Dworschak, co-directed with die.fisch.die, Leonie Reese, Sarah Schnauer; CE16) - supersummativ (2015, mid-length doc, Dworschak, co-directed with Gerhard Brandl, Beate Rathmayr; CE16) Beruf: Berührerin (2012, mid-length doc, Dworschak, co-directed with Andrea Müller, CE13) - synchronstricken (2001, short, Dworschak as part of freundinnen der Kunst; CE04)

Local Artists 2026

Director Claudia Dworschak, Tanja Brandmayr

Austria 2026

color

110 minutes

German

OV with English subtitles