Jürgen Böttcher

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names -...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

In this interview with contemporary witnesses, painter and director Jürgen Böttcher talks about some stages of his professional career. This also...

Strawalde (Jürgen Böttcher) and Ralf Winkler (A.R. Penck) meet on the afternoon of September 18, 1991, in a factory loft in Berlin-Wedding to paint...

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate...

Documentary accompanies the great DEFA film director and painter Jürgen Böttcher, alias Strawalde, detail through his biographical and artistic...

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th...