
Video
2025/26
Paris, Wolfratshausen
Video 10:08 min, HD, stereo

Barefoot, with loose hair and a torn dress, Veronika Dräxler embodies Henriette Poincaré. Born in Clichy, near Paris, to a German-Italian family, Henriette became the wife of Raymond Poincaré, President of France during the First World War — and was branded by the press a “femme sulfureuse.”In the Paris townhouse where Henriette lived — later transformed into a residence for German diplomats — she reappears as reflection, shadow and fleeting presence. Moving between Paris and an empty villa in Bavaria, the film lets bodies, architecture and memory haunt one another.Femme Sulfureuse explores how women enter history — and how easily they disappear from it — in a poetic act of reclaiming agency within spaces of power and diplomacy.

