Beatrice Ellen Stammer
lives and works as a free-lance curator, painter and writer in Berlin and near Nice.
grew up with two siblings in the Bruno Taut designed settlement Onkel Toms Hütte,
Berlin-Zehlendorf. A-Levels at Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in Berlin.
1972 - 1977 Studies in Erziehungswissenschaften
(Educational studies) in Berlin and Publizistik (Journalism) in Paris-Vincennes,
2. Staatsexamen at the Pädagogische
Hochschule Berlin. Scientific essay: Zu den Zielsetzungen der
politischen Bildung in den Westzonen und den Anfängen der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland. Eine Untersuchung über den Einfluß der Re-education-Politik.
1973 co-founder of Berlin's first women's centre, Hornstrasse 2, Berlin-Kreuzberg, activist in the women's liberation movement and non-dogmatic Left.
until 1980 school teacher
in subjects Art and French at a comprehensive school in Berlin
1979 - 1993 curator at Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK),
Berlin. Realisation of numerous exhibitions with catalogues for
'Realismusstudio' and the committee for travelling exhibitions and free
projects.
1983 - 1993 scientific assistant at Staatliche Kunsthalle
Berlin (until its closure),
realisation of numerous exhibitions and catalogues, often with Gabriele
Horn.
1994 - 1997 establishes horn+stammer art management for the integration
of art and culture in the public realm in Berlin, especially close to the new
Friedrichstrasse and Checkpoint Charlie. Offices
were on Zimmerstrasse
.
1998 - 2000 artistic advisor for the cultural programme of the Internationalen
Frauenuniversität
'ifu' (International University for Women) as 'world wide project' of the
EXPO 2000 in Hannover with eight large scale events, virtual exhibition: threads
of the woven maze (Pat Binder), exhibition: world
wide female sampling – an intercultural collection of objects (Ursula
Cyriax) from
115 countries and CD-Rom.
Since 2000 increased curatorial work on exhibitions by internationally successful
(but largely ignored in Berlin) female artists, whilst concurrently focussing
on intercultural dialogue and gender critical re-positioning of recent art
history from the 1960s and 70s.
2003 Beginning of a collaboration with painter Harald Gnade for the development
of an individual artistic language in painting, since 2009 with own studio.
2007 establishes cross links e.V. an independent society as platform for projects and the realisation of events,
in particular with emphasis on feminist and gender critical art production.
2007 - 2014 long-term collaboration with Bettina Knaup on the international performance art project
re.act.feminism #1 and #2.
1984 Lifelong partnership with film director Manfred Stelzer.
1996 - 2020 Marriage with Manfred Stelzer, wedding in Las Vegas, USA.
1998 Purchase on a house in Les Ferres, Alpes Maritimes near Nice,
annual safe haven.
2020 Passing of husband, the film maker and writer Manfred
Stelzer, who received a Network Movie Cologne lifetime achievement award that same year. Yearly award ceremony for the best German film comedy at Film Festival Cologne in October.
Work on his legacy, book, retrospective, trailer.
2024 editor of publication … und immer eine Prise Anarchie: Manfred Stelzer und seine Filme [… and always a pinch of anarchy: Manfred Stelzer and his films], Beatrice E. Stammer and Jan Gympel (eds). Team: Jennifer Borrmann, Jakobine Motz, Jorn Ebner, Graphic Design: Carsten Aermes. Büchner Verlag Marburg.