Sven Marquardt

o.T. (FLEISCHMANN)

FLEISCHMANN is a collaboration between Sven Marquardt, Esther Perbandt and Nicholas Mockridge. At the centre of the project is the film and theatre legend Volker Spengler, who passed away in February 2020 and left a powerful legacy to the German cultural landscape through his timeless portrayal of the transgender Elvira Weishaupt in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In a Year with 13 Moons. In an era before gender-sensitive language, this film made him an icon of the LGBTQIA+ community. Marquardt, Perbandt and Mockridge gathered an ensemble of actors such as Alexander Scheer and Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Berlin nightlife figures, up-and-coming actors, Perbandt himself and fashion icon Veruschka. The result is a series of portraits characterised by a morbid eroticism and a diverse range of references from Christian iconography to film and theatre history.
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