Gertrud Pinkus

Gertrud Pinkus, née Baumgartner, trained as a theatre set designer, at the Basel theatre and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and worked first for the stage. She moved to cinema around 1970, made many documentaries for German television and lived for long periods in Germany, Italy, Algeria, Mexico and Guatemala. From 1980, she also made films for the cinema, and in 1991 directed a film with her husband, the film educator Stephan Portmann. She also works in video and photography.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmDas höchste Gut einer Frau ist ihr SchweigenGertrud Pinkus · 1980Cinema