Freya Klier

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Full Name	Freya Klier
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1950(1950-02-04)
Age	74
Birthplace	Dresden
Country	Germany
Birth City	Saxony
Horoscope	Aquarius

Freya Klier Biography

Freya Klier is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on February 4, 1950 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Freya Klier (born 4 February 1950) is an German filmmaker and author. Prior to 1989/90, she had been an East German civil rights activist.

In the 1970s, Klier began to show an interest in the Polish cultural scene. Poland. It led her, inevitablely, to become more dissatisfied with the state of the communist countries within central Europe. She sought to convey her views both on a political level and through her artistic works. Klier was able to express her criticisms through art and politics. East German authorities were never open to criticism, no matter how the quality of it could or may not be interpreted. Therefore, in the current time, all of Klier’s stage shows within East Germany were met with formal suspicion or public criticism from the various channels used by the government. Many of her productions ended up finding them quickly cancelled or changed (“uminszeniert”) and so that only a small portion of her work. Her work was an official member of the “East German Theatrical Union” (“Theaterverband of DDR”) However, she was her self unable to accept invitations to participate in theaters overseas like Hungary as well as The Netherlands in the Netherlands, Hungary and West Germany. Some sources attribute this to the criticism she displayed in her theatre work as well as her involvement, beginning in 1981 with the peace movement backed by the church. However, in 1984, she was awarded a director’s award for the world premiere of “Legende vom Gluck ohne Ende” (“Legends of Endless Joy”) by Ulrich Plenzdorf at the Schwedt Theatre where she worked between 1982 between 1982 and 1984. In spite, or perhaps due to this award her departure from the theater in 1985, after having resigned her membership in the party on April 1, she was punished with a ban from future professional work.

Klier became increasingly involved with the Pankow Peace Circle in East Berlin during the early 1980s. The Pankow circle was, for many years, one of the more active and high-profile (but still localised) opposition groups cautiously emerging at the time. She was nevertheless internally conflicted because of her professional goals, and tried to integrate her artistic ambitions and her political goals. That was not always easy. In July 1981 she staged a small production for a church peace festival despite the threat of exclusion from the Institute for Theater direction (at which she was studying). Her preference for true facts also made the authorities nervous. In order to provide a factual basis for the social critique incorporated in and promoted by her artistic work, in 1983 Freya Klier began to make systematic enquiries of women with children about their home lives. She had herself been a single mother since the birth of Nadja, her daughter, in 1973: she knew from personal experience that there was a stark contrast between official propaganda and the actual condition of women in society. But her questionnaire based approach threatened a national taboo. Sociological or demographic studies were to be undertaken only by a small number of researchers who enjoyed the confidence of the party. Otherwise there was an ever-present danger that “right theory” might be undermined by “false empiricism”.

In February 1984 Klier met the songwriter Stephan Krawczyk. At the start of the 1980s he was a member of the still younger generation of artists whom the authorities confidently saw as the great hope for the nation’s artistic future. He had won first prize at the 1981 National Song Festival and was, naturally, a party member. It was only in April 1985 that he resigned his party membership”. Krawczyk had by this time become something of an iconic figure, especially for younger East German fans: later in 1985 he and Klier were both served with what amounted to a nationwide ban on professional work (Berufsverbot), which was linked with exclusion from the national “Theatrical Union” (“Theaterverband”). The authorities, with a characteristic absence of subtelty, sought to destroy Krawczyk’s fan base, describing him as a “national enemy” (“Staatsfeind”) and even as the “new Wolf Biermann”.

In 1968, she completed her final school exams (“Abitur”) which in other circumstances could have opened the doors to an undergraduate education. At simultaneously, because of the subjects studied, she was awarded the diploma of mechanical draftsmanship. The time she was in school had led her to the “twin-track” path, which for the time was unusual for the time. Even though she was a member of the party’s Young Pioneers, outside school she also took part with religious classes. In later years, despite being a member of the youth wing of the party (FDJ) she also participated in an organization run by the Church called “Young Community”. After she was done in prison and school, she worked in a variety of low-level tasks, such as waitressing and office work. She also did “behind the scenes” work for The Dresden Puppet Theatre.

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Within East Germany the arrests unleashed the biggest wave of support for prisoner political groups since the year 1953. It was not obvious to the prisoners however, as the only lawyers they had access to were those who were employed by Stasi themselves. They did not only do not tell their clients what was happening out “outside”: they also promised that their “clients” that no one “outside” was showing the any interest in their future. The lawyer who was who was assigned for Freya Klier Wolfgang Schnur, greatly shocked her when he went out in public and criticized his client. It wasn’t until some time later, after the Stasi documents were made public and revealed his role as an Stasi collaborator would become clear.

In 1966, her brother, who was barely 17 years old was convicted by the state of “slandering the state” and sentenced to a four-year prison period, after which she decided to move to the United States. Due to the war’s slaughter during the 1940s, and the massive migration in the 1950s East Germany was desperately short of people of working age. In 1966, getting out of the country – even for a brief period – was the norm for the majority of individuals “against the rules” and impossible. Freya Klier nonetheless had a plan of escape along with a friend from the Swedish theater group, armed with a fake passport, and boarding the Swedish merchant vessel. The ship was scheduled to leave in July of 1996, the actress was snubbed and was detained. The court sentenced her “for attempting to flee the Republic” (wegen “versuchter Republikflucht”) to a 16-month sentence in jail, but she served only 12 months in prison, and after that the balance of four months was “suspended” for two years.

In 1970, thanks to the intervention of a Party Secretary, Klier was able to embark on a study course at the Theatre Academy in Leipzig, emerging with a degree in 1975. Next she received a contract at the Neue Bühne (theatre) in Senftenberg, a small town in the flat countryside north of Dresden, where she worked as an actress. Alongside the acting she also became increasingly interested in directing. That led to a four-year period of study at the Berlin Institute for Theater direction, for which she received her diploma in 1982. During the early 1980s she worked on productions of works by Fernando Arrabal (at Halle), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (at Bautzen), Carl Sternberg and John Millington Synge (both at Berlin).

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While Klier and Krawczyk were still in East Germany she communicated the results of her researches in Samizdat publications, and incorporated them into presentations critical of the social system that she continued to give in churches or private homes. The Ministry for State Security (Stasi) subjected them both to a programme of intense monitoring, identified in their files as “Operation Sinus” (“OV Sinus”). As a result of Stasi interventions it became increasingly difficult to organise presentations. Their car was tampered with several times: on at least one occasion the brake cable on one side was cut. Krawczyk experience a nerve gas attack as he was opening the car door. Wie sehr Freya Klier als Staatsfeind angesehen wurde, zeigte die schon zu offensichtliche Verfolgung durch die Stasi, mehrere Manipulationen an ihrem Auto oder Mordversuch vom 8. November 1987. In addition to conventional harassment techniques Klier and Krawczyk were subjected to the ministry’s infamous Psychological Degradation (“Zersetzung”) tactics which were, as intended, psychologically damaging. Nevertheless, unlike her sixteen year old self, Freya Klier was now determined to stay the course and not to abandon East Germany.

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In fact the demonstrations and the subsequent arrests were being discussed at the highest level. A Politburo meeting took place on Tuesday 2 February 1988. The government felt more insecure than many western commentators assumed at the time, faced with a growing surge of street protests at home and growing uncertainty over whether, in the era of Glasnost, the authorities could still rely on fraternal military support from the Soviet Union of the kind employed the last time total breakdown had threatened, back in 1953 (or more recently, in Czechoslovakia, in 1968). Applying a strategy of damage limitation the Politburo decided to expel the imprisoned dissidents to the west. As presented to media by the government lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, this meant that all the detainees would be released, including those in the Stasi’s special Hohenschönhausen jail facing treason charges, and each one could freely choose whether he or she wished to be released in the east or in the west.

Top Facts about Freya Klier

1. Freya Klier is a German author and film director.
2. She was born in 1950 in Dresden, Germany.
3. Klier was a prominent figure in the East German opposition movement.
4. She co-founded the “Initiative for Peace and Human Rights” in 1986.
5. Klier’s films often explore themes of political oppression and resistance.
6. Her documentary “The Wall: A Monument to Our Times” won several awards.
7. Klier has written numerous books, including memoirs and novels.
8. She received the Order of Merit of Berlin in 2010.
9. Klier currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
10. She continues to be an advocate for human rights and democracy.