Andrea Lötscher
Andrea Lötscher
Andrea Lötscher, Social Anthropologist (M.A.) and Documentary Filmmaker
In 2001 I finished my studies of Social Anthropology at the WWU Münster with a Masters degree (M.A.). My masters thesis was about a healing ritual in Sri Lanka, showing how a person needed to re-connect all relationships within society and with the cosmos to be healed.
In 2007, I founded mondrosen.dokumentarfilme and have been working as a freelance filmmaker ever since.
BALTIC HEALING is my second feature-length documentary film.
Through the film, I developed a friendship with Ilga Šteinerte Gavare and with Amanita muscaria (fly agaric). I’ve been microdosing with Amanita since early 2022.
In the fall of 2024, I participated in Gerti Schön’s “Shamanic Training with the Fly Agaric.”
Since January 2025, I have been organizing and leading Pirts and Amanita Rituals in Dortmund together with Ilga Šteinerte Gavare. Through my own personal healing journey (with Amanita and other master plants), I have learned to hold space for people who are embarking on their own inner journeys.
In 2024 I started the Intensive Study Course “Lecturer on modern Matriarchal Studies” at Akademie HAGIA. Currently I am researching and writing about matriarchal elements in the Latvian Healing Tradition of the Pirts.
And a second film about the Pirts is in the making (STEAM & SPIRITUALITY).
I am married and the mother of an adult son.