teachers — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:teachers @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:41:55 +0200 Taxi zum Klo (Frank Ripploh, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jcvg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Taxi zum Klo (Frank Ripploh, 1980)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" Christa McAuliffe 1948 – 1986/div div class="img" Taxi zum Klo (1980)/div div class="caption" Frank (Frank Ripploh) teaching kids about the human body on an anatomy dummy. DP: Horst Schier./div div class="txt" A teacher for what would have been Christa McAuliffe's birthday. "Ich mag Männer, bin 30 Jahre alt, von Beruf Lehrer." ### – Frank Ripploh Frank Ripploh is a sexual ethics and biology teacher by day, and hedonistic gay man and aspiring pornographer by night. When Frank Ripploh, the man, publicly came out in 1978 in the tabloid Stern, he lost his teaching job and did become that filmmaker. Taxi zum Klo – litt. taxi to the john/loo – is his story. A frank pre-AIDS pre-Internet pre-victimhood depiction of male gay culture in West Germany. Maybe raw, possibly misogynist, definitely true to life. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FrankRipploh #BerndBroaderup #OrphaTermin #PeterFahrni #DieterGödde #KlausSchnee #MagdalenaMontezuma #HansWittstatt #HorstSchier #teachers #drama #biopic #LGBT #comedy #drama #romance #Berlin #WestGermany #1980s/div /section ]]>

Taxi zum Klo (Frank Ripploh, 1980)

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Christa McAuliffe 1948 – 1986

Taxi zum Klo (1980)

Frank (Frank Ripploh) teaching kids about the human body on an anatomy dummy. DP: Horst Schier.

A teacher for what would have been Christa McAuliffe's birthday.

“Ich mag Männer, bin 30 Jahre alt, von Beruf Lehrer.”

– Frank Ripploh

Frank Ripploh is a sexual ethics and biology teacher by day, and hedonistic gay man and aspiring pornographer by night. When Frank Ripploh, the man, publicly came out in 1978 in the tabloid Stern, he lost his teaching job and did become that filmmaker. Taxi zum Klo – litt. taxi to the john/loo – is his story. A frank pre-AIDS pre-Internet pre-victimhood depiction of male gay culture in West Germany. Maybe raw, possibly misogynist, definitely true to life.

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jcvg Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:21:00 +0200 Ole dole doff [Eeny Meeny Miny Moe / Who Saw Him Die?] (Jan Troell, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kx1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ole dole doff [Eeny Meeny Miny Moe / Who Saw Him Die?] (Jan Troell, 1968)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Scholastica /div div class="img" Ole dole doff (1968)/div div class="caption" A reaction shot shows the pupils' faces. While the girls show some sort of remorse, the boys are deadpan. DP: Jan Troell ./div div class="txt" A film about teaching on the day of Saint Scholastica, patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children.   Companion piece to Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964). An anti-authoritarian teacher who is plagued by nightmares, slowly unravels./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Scholastica #saints #JanTroell #ClasEngström #PerOscarsson #AnnMarieGyllenspetz #KerstinTidelius #BengtEkerot #HarrietForssell #PerSjöstrand #GeorgOddner #CattiEdfeldt #BoMalmqvist #schools #teachers #drama #BookAdaptation #Sweden #1960s/div /section ]]>

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