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Cornelia Schleime (born July 4, 1953) is a German painter, performer, filmmaker and author. Born in East Berlin under the GDR, she studied painting and graphic arts at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before becoming a member of the underground art scene.

She was awarded the Hannah Höch Lifetime Achievement Award from the State of Berlin in 2016.

Life

Early life in East Berlin

Schleime was born in 1953 in East Berlin, East Germany. She grew up under the dictatorship of a "gesetztes Wir" (predefined collective or "We") she had learned very early to retract from the coercions and imputations of a prescribed happiness.

A "Community tames extremes". It would "have smoothened out my fractions.

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I did not want to change anything here, with the exception of myself. I was fed up with the way people betrayed themselves. I didn't want to grow old that way." Rather early she dreamed of going to Morocco like August Macke, in order to "meet my self in the farawa