Karola Gramann

Parallel to her studies, Gramann began her career as a film curator, for which there were still no institutionalized training paths in the 1970s.

During a study visit to England in 1975/76, she attended courses at the British Film Institute (BFI) Summerschool in Stirling.

In lectures by Laura Mulvey, Claire Johnston, Richard Dyer, Stuart Hall and Angela Martin, among others, Gramann focused on topics such as feminist film theory, the confrontation between the avant-gardes and Marxist positions, Hollywood cinema and the beginnings of gay and lesbian criticism of the dominant cinema.

She curates and presents films herself, always focusing on "resistant", hidden cinema:[5] During her studies, for example, she translated the key text of feminist film theory "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) by Laura Mulvey into German.

The first issue under the editorship of Karola Gramann and Heide Schlüpmann appeared with the title "In den Brüchen der Zeit" in 1982.