Actress Nina Gummich (l) and journalist Alice Schwarzer at the NRW premiere of the film Alice Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Horst Galuschka
From BZ/dpa
Actress Nina Gummich (31) always saw her mother Anne-Kathrin Gummich as a role model.
“She has always set an example for me: You can achieve anything and it doesn’t matter at all whether you are a woman or a man,” said Gummich of the German Press Agency in Cologne. Her mother, who was born in 1964, is a professor of acting in Leipzig.
In her own words, Nina Gummich was not aware until recently of how disadvantaged women were in post-war West Germany.
“I have to be honest – I really had no idea what the differences between East and West were,” she said. “A woman in the west could not go to work without her husband’s permission until 1977? Luckily for me that’s unimaginable!”
The 31-year-old embodies the women’s rights activist Alice Schwarzer in the ARD film “Alice”. The two-parter, which will be shown on Wednesday (November 30) at 8.15 p.m. in the first, traces their path in the 60s and 70s up to the founding of the magazine “Emma”.