GERTRUD WOKER, one of the first female professors in Europe, was an early feminist and pacifist, advocating for women’s rights and against war. Yet her story was never included in historical accounts, despite the fact that she challenged the societal conventions of the day to oppose gender discrimination and immoral war practices.
WOKER advocated “Equal pay for equal work” and fought relentlessly for peace and against the misuse of science. She was ultimately declared insane and spent her last years in a psychiatric hospital. She disappeared from history – either accidentally or deliberately – but definitely unjustly.
The documentary, THE PACIFIST, narrates the life and achievements of this fascinating woman through a rich collage of artistic forms, using diary entries, scientific reports and poems
by Gertrud Woker herself.
THE PACIFIST is biographical, but also a documentation of contemporary events, illuminated by the perspective of a courageous woman who would not be silenced during her lifetime.
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