Golden Shoes and a Blue Piano

Animation Film

Technique cutout animation
Materials paper, transparent sheets, archive photos, drawings

“Eccentric? Of course. Excessive? Perhaps. In love? Always.”

Golden Shoes and a Blue Piano is an animation film about the life and the poetry of German-Jewish expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) whose life was marked by war and the death of beloved ones, poverty and flight from rising fascism, followed by exile; but also by her imagination, her playfulness with her own roles and identities, her deep connection with her parents and artist friends, and her constant yearning for a home.

Golden Shoes and a Blue Piano was commissioned by the association Lese-Zeichen e.V. as part of their “Long Story Short” series, in which audiences are introduced to classics of literature through narration and animation.

Released online 30th November 2023

Animation + Direction: Lucia Schmidt 

Text: Christine Hansmann

Narration: Lysann Schläfke 

Music + Mastering: Michael Thurm

  Sound: Harald DuBellier

  Production: Ralf Schönfelder & Romina Nikolić