Christina Glanz was born in 1946 in Eichsfeld, Thuringia. She first studied architecture in Dresden, then at the Kunsthochschule Berlin (Weißensee). In 1979, she gave up her work in the state office for urban planning and began an artistic traineeship in the graphics department at the Kunsthochschule Berlin (Weißensee). In 1982, she was accepted into the VBK of the GDR and has worked freelance ever since.

In her GDR pictures, she photographs ‘against the grain’, for example when the sensitivities of demonstrators at state-organised events and of young people in regulated leisure activities become visible. After 1989, she documented aspects of the elimination of the steel and coal industry in Lower Lusatia, especially in Lauchhammer, in a long-term self-commissioned project. In 2023/24, the Brandenburg Museum for Future, Present and History is honouring Christina Glanz's work with the major solo exhibition I would go back to coal in a heartbeat....

In conversation with Bettina Cohnen, Christina Glanz talks about her career and presents her work.