\u00bbBefore Sibylle Berg became Sibylle Berg, nobody knew that she is Sybille Berg.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Sibylle Berg, celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist known for her provocations and the sharpness of her comments, loves to dissect the realities of middle-class life. She has a reputation for being flamboyant and brilliant, but many people, who revile her as a \u00bbpreacher of hatred on behalf of singleton society\u00ab or a \u00bbscaremonger\u00ab take offence at her cutting rhetoric.<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s afraid of Sibylle Berg? In the two years it took to shoot the film together, Baier and Ko\u0308hler approach a female protagonist for the first time. Their pictures appear to be spontaneous, often random, conveying a sense of proximity in spite of the film\u2019s professionalism. The film is not a polished artist\u2019s portrait; it is a fragmentary collection of impressions, which come together at the end to create an individual view of Berg\u2019s persona. It demonstrates that behind the shy author is a shy person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20717,"template":"","movie_year":[155],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[329],"festival":[417],"class_list":["post-9296","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-155","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-panorama-en-2016","festival-2016-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Berg takes the film\u2019s two directors on an anecdotal and humorous foray through her eventful life. She talks about her youth in East Germany, about training to become a puppeteer and relocating to the West, and she confirms the myth that she worked as a cleaner and secretary, among other things, before a publishing company showed an interest in her. She recalls a devastating accident and laconically proclaims: \u00bbBefore I discovered happiness or anything like that, I didn\u2018t want to be dead.\u00ab She admits finding \u00bbThomas Mann incredibly dumb\u00ab and describes her own work as \u00bbfringe group shit\u00ab.<\/p>\n